Completions
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March 09, 2016
Seatronics, an Acteon company, and Norwegian associates RTS, have achieved 100 successful global installations with the Subsea Deflection Monitoring system (SDM).
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March 08, 2016
PropTester, Inc. and KELRIK LLC have announced the release of the 2015 Proppant Market Report. The report provides a detailed overview of the global proppant market in relation to prior years.
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March 06, 2016
The International Well Control Forum has launched a global online training course, which will be free to everyone in the industry to increase knowledge around what can cause a well blowout and potential oil spill incident.
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March 04, 2016
U.S. drillers pulled eight oil-directed rigs from the field this week as the total rig count dropped 500 for the first time since April 1999. The rig count has now fallen for 11 straight weeks.
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February 25, 2016
Hydratight has invented yet another viable alternative to welding, which was officially launched at the Australasian Oil and Gas Exhibition and Conference (AOG) on Thursday, Feb. 25.
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February 17, 2016
Total E&P Congo has selected the Welltec Annular Barrier (WAB) as a completion component for the upcoming wells in the company’s deepwater Moho Nord project.
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February 12, 2016
HOUSTON – U.S. drillers pulled 28 oil-directed rigs from the field this week, according to the latest data from Baker Hughes.
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February 12, 2016
Railroad Commissioner Christi Craddick pointed to the positive impact Texas and U.S. oil producers will see as open crude oil markets increase demand for lighter, sweeter U.S. shale oil in keynote remarks at the North American Prospect Expo’s (NAPE) Global Business Conference in Houston earlier this week.
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February 10, 2016
SPD Ltd., part of the Petrofac Group, has secured a contract from Zennor Petroleum to provide well design and well construction management services, to support the Finlaggan appraisal well, which is in the Central Sector of the North Sea.
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February 02, 2016
Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. has cut its 2016 capital budget to $325 million, a 47% reduction from the company’s $615-million preliminary budget for the year.
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January 30, 2016
Makai has released version 6.0 of MakaiPlan Pro, which is a popular software for planning and simulating subsea power and telecom cable installations.
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January 20, 2016
Aquatic Engineering & Construction Ltd, an Acteon company, is working with DNV GL and other organizations in the subsea supply chain, on a JIP to develop a set of guidelines to be incorporated into new or existing DNV GL offshore standards or recommended practices.
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January 2016
The petroleum industry’s growing need for gas-tight connections is being driven by complex wells requiring high-pressure completions and fracturing jobs, or managed pressure/underbalanced drilling operations.
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January 2016
An appraisal well in India’s KG Onshore Block—a JV between Cairn India Ltd. and ONGC—afforded key engineering and operational learning opportunities.
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January 20, 2016
Estimated total U.S. oil and natural gas well completions fell by 51% in the fourth quarter of 2015 compared to year-ago levels, according to API's 2015 Quarterly Well Completion Report, Fourth Quarter.
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January 12, 2016
Gazprom Neft has finished drilling the first bilateral production well—with horizontal shafts of 1,000 m—on the Yamal Peninsula.
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January 08, 2016
The gas leak occurring at the Kårstø processing plant Thursday night has now been stopped.
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January 07, 2016
U.S. shale explorers will be able to bring new supply to market this year even with most of the rig fleet idled and drilling budgets cut to the bone. Their secret: thousands of mothballed wells.
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January 06, 2016
Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies has been awarded a three-year contract by Wintershall Holding GmbH for provision of its hosted SiteCom real-time data aggregation and visualization solution for well construction.
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January 04, 2016
Statoil and Repsol have completed two of the transactions announced in December.
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December 23, 2015
Det norske oljeselskap has completed the acquisition of Premier Oil Norway, which comprises all Premier Oil plc’s Norwegian assets, for a net consideration of $120 million on a cash free, debt basis.
