Team Effort Augers Well for Shell, Baker Hughes.(Brief Article)

Publication: Oil and Gas Investor

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Best-in-Class technology from Baker Hughes and a combined team effort between the Baker Hughes and Shell have contributed to the success of Shell's Auger TLP.

Baker Hughes has fostered a relationship with Shell Exploration & Production to use the latest technology. Baker Hughes' association with Auger dates back to the earliest phases of exploration with well logging and continues today with a full spectrum of services from formation evaluation and extended-reach drilling to production services and chemical treatment. A major contributor to Auger's success is the team effort between Shell and Baker Hughes to implement a continuous improvement process. This process has increased the efficiency of field operations and spurred the development of new technologies to meet production and performance goals. The improvement process remains in force for Auger and Shell's other deepwater frontier projects in the Gulf of Mexico and throughout the world.

Innovations in formation evaluation

Baker Atlas, the wireline division of Baker Hughes, provided well logging during the Auger development drilling phase, prior to installing a logging unit aboard the...

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