Drilling
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December 2021
Wild Well Control says operators should consider environmental concerns during well planning, including location, access points, proximity to water, and other issues that can make a difference between an expedited, efficient and safe blowout scenario and one that is complicated, costly and dangerous.
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December 2021
Mitigating or controlling the outcome of significant unknowns is most effective when done from the very beginning to ensure that coiled tubing is the right technology for the application. The feasibility study is, therefore, arguably the most important stage in project planning.
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December 2021
The search for new energy sources has focused renewed attention on reducing costs and improving drilling efficiency. One company is conducting scientific research to launch innovative technologies to address the challenge.
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December 2021
Comprehensive new logging services focus on enhancing subsurface insight, optimizing drilling performance and ensuring consistent well delivery, to help operators minimize cost and risk while maximizing asset value.
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November 2021
Controlling top-to-bottom limiters
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November 2021
Recovery is still moving forward
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November 2021
Following the pandemic, companies are adjusting operating philosophies to focus more on production optimization and maximize existing investments. This growing need has fueled interest in the latest digital offerings, especially for remote operations, visualization, Edge automation and artificial intelligence.
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October 2021
As operators confront more challenging wells with increasingly complex designs and deeper depths, the industry continues to make advancements with unconventional innovations. A slim-hole RSS is delivering success in North America and Romania, while an innovative drilling strategy has enabled operators to set new performance benchmarks in the North Sea.
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October 2021
High temperatures, high pressures and/or abrasive formations can make for unmanageable conditions. A proprietary MWD technology has been developed to endure harsher downhole environments than previous measurement logging tools.
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December 02, 2021
Turkey threatened to block any unauthorized search for gas and oil in its economic exclusive zone in the eastern Mediterranean after Cyprus awarded hydrocarbon exploration and drilling rights in its offshore block 5 to a venture of Exxon Mobil and Qatar Petroleum.
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December 01, 2021
The second Wells Insight report, published by the UK Oil and Gas Authority, highlights significant opportunities remaining in the UK North Sea basin, despite Covid resulting in a slowdown in 2020.
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November 26, 2021
Nordic oil producer Lundin Energy AB is exploring a potential sale that could rank as one of the largest European oil and gas deals in years, people with knowledge of the matter said.
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November 24, 2021
Neptune Energy Group Ltd.’s owners are weighing plans to sell the UK oil and gas explorer, according to people familiar with the matter.
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November 23, 2021
The pace of oil and gas drilling in Canada next year will exceed levels seen before the pandemic as producers ride the global energy rally, an industry group said.
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November 22, 2021
Neptune Energy has extended a contract for Odfjell Drilling’s Deepsea Yantai drilling rig, to include three additional wells in the Norwegian North Sea next year.
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November 19, 2021
Baker Hughes has been awarded two contracts from ADNOC this week for equipment and services across multiple upstream fields and projects in the United Arab Emirates.
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November 18, 2021
Exxon Mobil Corp. submitted bids for 94 drilling leases in shallow waters near the Texas coastline, an apparent step forward for a giant proposed carbon-capture project close to Houston’s industrial corridor.
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November 17, 2021
Oil companies spent $191.7 million buying drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, during a robust government auction that underscored the industry’s appetite for new crude as the White House seeks to shift the U.S. away from fossil fuels.
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November 17, 2021
The Biden administration is selling drilling rights across the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday in an auction that will test the oil industry’s appetite amid White House efforts to shift away from fossil fuels.
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November 10, 2021
Noble and Maersk Drilling share a strong conviction about the compelling industrial logic for taking this step to create a differentiated offshore drilling company with the scale, capabilities, and resources to successfully serve a broad range of customers.
