Professional Publications

  • By Christian Leuchtenberg

    Mobile Production Unit for Offshore Nigeria, 1996 Mike Guerra, Christian Leuchtenberg (Mobil Oil Internal Publication)

    Development and Performance of Surface Equipment for High Temperature Underbalance Drilling in a Sour, Severely Under Pressured Formation, ASME Energy Sources Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, February 1999.

    System for Drilling an Offshore Shallow Sour Gas Carbonate Reservoir, SPE/IADC 52808, 2000.

    Drilling with Aerated Fluid from a Floating Unit. Part 1: Planning, Equipment, Tests, and Rig Modifications, Paper IADC/SPE 67748, presented at the 2001 IADC/SPE Drilling Conference, Amsterdam, 27 Feb-1 March, 2001.

    No-Damage Drilling: How to Achieve this Challenging Goal?, Paper SPE 77189, presented at the 2002 IADC/SPE Asia Pacific Drilling Technology held in Jakarta, Indonesia, 9-11 September 2002. 

    Increasing Leakoff Pressure with New Class of Drilling Fluid, Paper SPE/ISRM 78243, presented at the 2002 SPE/ISRM Rock Mechanics Conference held in Irving, Texas, 20-23 October 2002.

    Micro-Flux Control: The Next Generation In Drilling Process, Paper SPE 81183, presented at the 2003 SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering conference, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, West Indies, 27-30 April 2003.

    Micro-Flux Control: The Next Generation In Drilling Process for Ultra Deep water, Paper OTC 15062, presented at Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, USA, 5-8 May 2003.

    Opening New Exploration Frontiers With The Micro-Flux Control Method For Well Design, Paper OTC 16622, presented at Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, USA, 3-6 May 2004.

    Micro-Flux Control Method combined with Surface BOP creates Enabling Opportunity for Deepwater and Offshore Drilling, Paper OTC 17451, presented at Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, USA, 2-5 May 2005.

    Presentation: Managed Pressure Drilling Development driven by HPHT Depletion Needsat World Oil HPHT conference in Houston, Texas, USA, 14 April 2007. 

  • By Henry Pinkstone and Christian Leuchtenberg

    SPE/IADC 113672 Managed Pressure Drilling Resolves Pressure Depletion Related Problems in the Development of the HPHT Kristin Field, S. Aa. Solvang, StatoilHydro, C. Leuchtenberg, Consultant, I. C. Gil, H. Pinkstone, Sperry Drilling Services, Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. This paper was prepared for presentation at the 2008 SPE/IADC Managed Pressure Drilling and Underbalanced Operations Conference and Exhibition held in Abu Dhabi, UAE, 28–29 January 2008.

  • By Henry Pinkstone

    SPE 90185 Underbalanced Drilling Of Fractured Carbonates In Northern Thailand Overcomes Conventional Drilling Problems Leading To A Major Gas Discover, Henry Pinkstone, Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.; Andy Timms, Amerada Hess Thailand; Scott McMillan, Rick Doll, Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.; and Hans de Vries, Amerada Hess Thailand. This paper was prepared for presentation at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition held in Houston, Texas, U.S.A., 26–29 September 2004. 

  • By James May

    Using Rotating Control Devices Safely in Today's Managed Pressure and Underbalanced Drilling Operations, Joseph A. Cantu, Anadarko Petroleum Corp.; James May, Jaye Shelton, Smith Services. Presented at the SPE/IADC Underbalanced Technology Conference and Exhibition, 11-12 October 2004, Houston, Texas. 

    Managed-Pressure Drilling: What It Is and What It Is Not,  Kenneth P. Malloy, SPE, Stress Engineering Services, C. Rick Stone, SPE, and George H. Medley, Jr., SPE, Signa Engineering, Don Hannegan, SPE, Weatherford International, Oliver Coker, SPE, ConocoPhillips, Don Reitsma, SPE, @Balance, Helio Santos, SPE, and Joseph Kinder, SPE, Secure Drilling, Johan Eck-Olsen, SPE, StatoilHydro, John McCaskill, SPE, Expro Group, James May, SPE, Smith Services, Kenneth Smith, SPE and Paul Sonneman, SPE, Chevron Energy Technology. Presented at the IADC/SPE Managed Pressure Drilling and Underbalanced Operations Conference & Exhibition, 12-13 February 2009, San Antonio, Texas. 

    Managed-Pressure Drilling With Dynamic Annular Pressure-Control System Proves Successful in Redevelopment Program on Auger TLP in Deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Mark J. Chustz, Shell E&P; James May and Cameron Wallace, Smith Services; Don Reitsma and Paul Fredricks, At Balance Americas LLC; and Scott Dickinson and Larry D. Smith, Signa Engineering Corp. Presented at the IADC/SPE Managed Pressure Drilling & Underbalanced Operations, 28-29 March 2007, Galveston, Texas, U.S.A.