Drilling
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March 2023
A cross-sector collaboration between suppliers and project partners to design rigs at the concept stage for tie-back will be beneficial. This approach enables the industry to move from sequential development stages toward simultaneous drilling and platform construction to accelerate timelines.
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March 2023
Drilling contractors and operators have more options than ever before to reduce their diesel fuel costs, without sacrificing performance. Creating an integrated and fuel-flexible hybrid power solution offers sustainability benefits and stability that’s required in the oil field.
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March 2023
Market demand for drilling rigs ramps up after years of dormant activity when many were stacked for storage. Ensuring that these still have the right specifications and are fit for purpose following reactivation can be a challenge requiring technical experience and expertise.
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March 29, 2023
The 73 million acre sale — one of the nation’s largest ever — being held by the Interior Department on Wednesday was one of several required under the Democrats’ climate law as a concession to Senator Joe Manchin to secure the bill’s passage in the Senate.
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March 29, 2023
Kistos, a low carbon intensity oil and gas producer pursuing a strategy to acquire assets with a role in energy transition, provided an update on its drilling activities in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
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March 28, 2023
Transocean Encourage and Transocean Enabler are 6th generation fully winterized, harsh environment semisubmersible rigs with automated drilling control specially designed for operations on the Norwegian continental shelf.
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March 2023
As ML applications become easier to access and use, they are setting the stage for rapid scaling across the E&P industry to assist the human decision-making process. A new ML-based drilling system recommender illustrates how this scaling is improving drilling performance and reducing energy extraction costs.
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March 15, 2023
West Akcakoca 1 reached 3,839 m total measured depth and true vertical depth of 1,677 m. During the drilling, an abundance of gas pay was discovered.
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March 14, 2023
Preliminary analysis of the logging-while-drilling and wireline log data available at Neon-2 has confirmed that, as at Neon-1, the Paleocene sandstone primary target zones are present and oil bearing at this location.
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March 13, 2023
Ireland is becoming ever more reliant on Britain for gas supplies, with UK imports more than doubling since 2017 to 75% of Irish demand, and set to hit 90%, a report from OEUK will say.
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March 06, 2023
Valaris signed a three-year contract with Petrobras for drillship VALARIS DS-8. The rig will be reactivated for this contract. The total contract value is approximately $500 million, including a $30 million mobilization fee.
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March 06, 2023
QatarEnergy made a light oil discovery in the Jonker-1X deep-water exploration well drilled in the PEL-39 Exploration License, offshore Namibia.
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March 01, 2023
The contract includes the seventh-generation drillship named Deep Value Driller, one of the most modern in the world.
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February 27, 2023
The company seeks to fill gaps in the market to help meet operator demand for high-quality services and offer clients a more streamlined, efficient approach to delivering projects under a single supplier.
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February 23, 2023
Africa-focused independent exploration company, Impact Oil & Gas, has launched a multi-well drilling program offshore Namibia to assess the hydrocarbon reserves available in TotalEnergies’ large-scale Venus discovery, as well as their flow potential into adjacent blocks.
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February 21, 2023
The simulation allows tutors to take concepts discussed in the classroom and demonstrate a working knowledge as they would in a real-life environment, allowing students to experience in real-time the hazards they may encounter when dealing with onshore and offshore wells.
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February 2023
Fishing operations can be complex and, until now, such tasks have been performed somewhat “blindly,” which runs the risk of turning any job into a time-consuming saga. Now, a new tool has finally brought the oft-reviled challenge of downhole fishing into the digital age.
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February 16, 2023
Neon-1 was drilled into the down-dip southern flank of the Neon discovery, to better constrain lithologies and reservoir quality and reduce the range of uncertainty on the oil-water contact. The goal was to better understand the range of potentially recoverable volumes in Neon and assist in delineating pathways of potential future production wells.
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February 14, 2023
Trillion Energy International Inc. has begun drilling its West Akcakcoa-1 well at the SASB gas field offshore Turkey. In late 2022, Trillion Energy drilled a 1,008 m of surface hole. Due to equipment delays to the company’s Guluc-2 well, Trillion has decided to focus on reaching total depth at the WA-1 well.
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February 13, 2023
Liz Klein, the new Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, takes over at a critical time as her agency makes decisions about where to install ocean wind farms, how to safely store carbon dioxide under the sea floor and the future of oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
