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March 28, 2017
LUKOIL has applied innovative technologies for examination of core samples of the West Qurna-2 field.
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March 21, 2017
For CIPPE 2017 Gold Award, the review committee consists of Chinese academy of sciences and Chinese academy of engineering academicians, and authoritative experts from CNPC, Sinopec and CNOOC. With strict evaluation for innovative products and technologies from well-known drilling companies, the committee has selected the Smart Driller Indicator (SDI), developed by Strategy and Planning Institute from CNPC DR, as the final winner, due to its unique innovation and superior drilling performance in the intelligent drilling field.
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February 28, 2017
Superior Drilling Products, Inc., a designer and manufacturer of drilling tool technologies, announced today that it has been awarded a critical patent that addresses the unique characteristics and capabilities of its Strider technology that is a key component of the Company’s Coiled Tubing Strider (CTS) and Open Hole Strider tools for the oil & gas industry.
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February 27, 2017
Well Control School (WCS) is announcing an alliance with Drilbert Engineering to provide advanced technical drilling operational training for the oil and gas industry.
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February 22, 2017
Accenture opened a new innovation hub in Houston as part of the company’s accelerated innovation investment in the U.S.
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February 20, 2017
NEL, the flow measurement R&D specialist, has appointed Dr. Bruno Pinguet as senior consultant.
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February 16, 2017
Exxon Mobil, working with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), has achieved a major breakthrough with proprietary software using more than four times the previous number of processors used on complex oil and gas reservoir simulation models to improve exploration and production results.
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February 09, 2017
Oilfield Helping Hands (OHH), a nonprofit charitable organization comprised of volunteers devoted to providing financial assistance to oilfield workers in financial crisis, has been named the 2017 beneficiary of the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Distinguished Achievement Awards Luncheon.
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February 09, 2017
Samoco Oil Tools has launched OneTrip to greatly reduce the time and costs associated with mandatory BOP testing. The company collaborated with Shell Offshore to engineer, manufacture and test the new tool.
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January 23, 2017
Hydraulic cutting systems specialist, Webtool, announces a resettable emergency disconnect cutter for light and medium subsea well intervention.
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January 19, 2017
Fairmount Santrol announced today an extension to Propel SSP proppant transport technology, which increases hydraulic fracturing efficiency, for plays where operators face high produced water disposal costs and constraints on freshwater availability.
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