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  • Article
  • Open Access
849 Views
32 Pages

In order to gain an insight into the stress state of drillstring in riserless drilling conditions with Casing while Drilling (CwD) technology, a stochastic and nonlinear dynamic model of the drillstring under the excitation of the environmental load...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,633 Views
13 Pages

First Successful Wireline Stress Testing in a Gas Hydrate Reservoir in the Hyuganada Sea, Japan

  • Satoshi Ohtsuki,
  • Bei Gao,
  • Takanao Yoshii,
  • Yuki Maehara,
  • Daigoro Watanabe,
  • Takayuki Kanno and
  • Zhaoya Fan

28 May 2024

This study presents a stress testing operation conducted using a wireline formation tester in a newly discovered gas hydrate prospect located offshore in Japan. The campaign, which spanned from December 2021 to January 2022, involved drilling a well...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,128 Views
20 Pages

30 October 2023

Compared with traditional deepwater drilling, riserless mud recovery (RMR) drilling technology has the advantages of improving drilling efficiency, reducing risks, and minimizing environmental effects. Therefore, RMR drilling technology has been wide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,580 Views
27 Pages

21 June 2023

As an important drilling tool, the landing string will be directly exposed to seawater during surface riserless drilling operations, and it will undergo complex deformation under the action of environmental loads such as ocean currents and waves and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,327 Views
21 Pages

Adaptability Evaluation of Hybrid Riser-Based Riserless Mud Recovery System for Deepwater Natural Gas Hydrate Exploration and Development

  • Jing Zeng,
  • Wenwei Xie,
  • Yanjiang Yu,
  • Kewei Zhang,
  • Haowen Chen,
  • Bin Li,
  • Fangfei Huang,
  • Kaixiang Shen,
  • Qiuping Lu and
  • Haoyu Yu

2 June 2025

Deepwater natural gas hydrate (NGH) exploration faces environmental and economic challenges due to the conventional seabed discharge of drilling mud. To address this, we developed an improved riserless mud recovery (RMR) system using hybrid risers to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,545 Views
23 Pages

Quantitative Analysis of the Stability of a Mud-Return Circulation System in a Riserless Mud-Recovery Drilling System

  • Rulei Qin,
  • Qiuping Lu,
  • Guolei He,
  • Benchong Xu,
  • Haowen Chen,
  • Changping Li,
  • Guoyue Yin,
  • Jiarui Wang and
  • Linqing Wang

16 August 2023

Riserless mud-recovery (RMR) drilling technology was widely applied in recent years. Compared with traditional deepwater drilling, RMR drilling can improve drilling efficiency, reduce risks, and minimize environmental effects. This paper focuses prim...