Drilling
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April 01, 2022
Canada’s natural gas producers will face the greatest burden among energy companies under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s new emissions-reduction plan, just as the industry faces renewed pressure to increase output.
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April 01, 2022
Australia's Santos Ltd. is locked in a dispute with ConocoPhillips over road access in Alaska, potentially holding up a $3 billion oil project, according to letters from both companies to the U.S. state's government.
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March 31, 2022
There’s been a rush of investors to fuel Bitcoin mines with gas that would otherwise be burned off or vented into the atmosphere in oil-producing fields.
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March 30, 2022
A controversial U.K. oil project won a license extension, keeping open the possibility of development even after Shell Plc retreated amid a backlash from climate protesters.
Article
March 2022
With extreme weather events growing in frequency around the world, there are many ways that oil and gas operators can do more to protect their assets and mitigate some of the risks posed by natural hazards.
Article
March 2022
Mature fields are rife with producing wells that have commercial quantities of hydrocarbons behind pipe. Coiled tubing drilling provides a method to defer abandonment liability and access bypassed reserves with minimal capital expenditure.
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March 28, 2022
Canada’s oil sands would play the biggest role in the government’s pledge to boost crude and natural gas exports by 300,000 barrels a day this year to compensate for Russian supplies.
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March 28, 2022
Exxon Mobil Corp. drilled a so-called dry hole off the Brazilian coast, a rare setback in the oil titan’s effort to expand its South American crude reserves.
Article
March 2022
Last month's column discussed the impact of the Railroad Commission’s (RRC) development of Seismic Response Areas (SRA) and the impact that these actions were having on produced water management in the Permian basin. Since the writing of that column, a third SRA has entered the mix.
News
March 25, 2022
KCA Deutag announced that it sold its land drilling business in Nigeria, including five drilling rigs, for $18 million to Nigeria-based Geoplex Drillteq Limited.
Article
March 2022
Continuous circulation technology consistently delivers a decrease in drill pipe connection times, while reducing overall risks and operator costs.
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March 23, 2022
U.S. shale drillers are incurring record labor and equipment costs so they can cash in on the highest oil prices in 14 years.
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March 23, 2022
SBM Offshore announced that it has entered into a shareholder agreement with its long standing business partners Mitsubishi Corporation and Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha.
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March 21, 2022
Rockcliff Energy LLC, a private equity-backed natural gas explorer, has been speaking with advisers as it evaluates takeover interest from rival U.S. shale drillers, people with knowledge of the matter said.
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March 18, 2022
The Biden administration said it would resume plans for oil and gas drilling on federal lands after a federal appeals court granted a White House request to allow the administration to use a revamped metric for calculating the potential cost to society of greenhouse gas emissions.
Article
March 2022
Availability is relative, as the perceived supply tightness pertains only to the rigs that discriminating shale operators are willing to put to work.
News
March 15, 2022
Demand for rigs is now higher than it’s been in years, and the Canadian summer drilling season is likely to start earlier than usual.
News
March 08, 2022
Cyberattacks targeting EQT Corp., the largest producer of natural gas in the U.S., have “gone up significantly” since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
News
March 07, 2022
In the Western Permian Basin, the Railroad Commission began implementation of a first of its kind operator-led response plan that addresses injection-induced seismicity to help keep residents and the environment safe.
News
February 28, 2022
If the lights are going to stay on and homes are to keep warm in the harsh Ukrainian winter, Oleg Tolmachev is going to have to find a way to keep the gas flowing.
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February 25, 2022
Inflation and brisk competition for the most-sophisticated drilling gear will hinder U.S. oil-supply expansion this year, according to shale giant EOG Resources Inc.
