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Shell revitalizes ‘Drilling the Limit’ program

10/15/2007
Shell has revitalized its “Technical Limit” program in well delivery and well servicing activities. Early positive results have prompted the company to extend the program to additional assets in 2007 (Fig. 1).The concept of technical limit (TL) arose in the late 1990s and quickly spread across the industry.1 Led by Shell’s technical-limit drilling approach, TL got well engineers to work toward a “perfect world” execution of their operations by removing lost time and adopting innovative practices.2 3 Click here to enlarge imageShell achieved global success with the program, which eventually became known as “Drilling the Limit” (DtL).1 Driven by a ...
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