Drilling
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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 03, 2021
Oil producers in the Permian Basin must do more to disclose and stop the leak of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, a House committee wrote in a letter to 10 major oil companies.
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December 01, 2021
Shale drillers’ newfound commitment to production discipline appears to be paying off as crude plunges toward a bear market.
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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 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 08, 2021
Global drilling, engineering and technology provider KCA Deutag has been awarded contracts worth almost $185m from leading exploration and production companies across key markets in the Middle East region.
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November 04, 2021
Southwestern Energy Company announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with the third largest private Haynesville producer – GEP Haynesville, LLC under which it will acquire GEP for approximately $1.85 billion. The transaction is expected to close by year-end 2021, subject to customary closing conditions.
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November 04, 2021
President Joe Biden should “back off” from domestic anti-oil policies if he wants to keep crude prices in check, according to one of America’s biggest shale drillers.
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November 03, 2021
Shale driller Diamondback Energy Inc. is bracing for a 10% jump in costs next year amid supply-chain snarls rippling through the oil industry.
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November 03, 2021
“It’s hypocritical to kill clean fossil fuel jobs here in America claiming it ensures a clean environment, and then beg our foreign adversaries to produce more using much less environment-friendly methods," Railroad Commission of Texas Chairman Wayne Christian said in a statement.
Webcast
Drilling Automation 4.0: From remote systems to reservoir navigation
December 09, 2021
Drilling automation, Oil and Gas Industry, Automated Reservoir Navigation
Drilling automation is revolutionizing the way our industry approaches well construction. In this webcast, subject-matter experts will discuss current expectations within the oil and gas industry for these digital systems and solutions. They will examine some of the ongoing applications of this technology and what to expect moving forward. This discussion will also include an exclusive look at results from the first-ever application of automated reservoir navigation.
Following the presentation, the speakers will answer your questions regarding the current state of drilling automation and its potential to transform our industry.
Webcast
Drilling Innovations & Technology Forum: Fall 2021
November 10, 2021
Schlumberger, PatSnap
Advances in drilling technology increasingly require collaboration by traditional drilling players with partners outside the core of the oil & gas industry. Identifying who can provide the missing innovation pieces – whether it is a technology company to develop software for an advanced exploration system, or an academic researcher with expertise in an obscure chemical discipline – is a critical step for innovation in drilling.
Join PatSnap to learn how connected innovation intelligence tools and techniques can be used to empower the drilling industry to discover and collaborate with the best possible partners.
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November 02, 2021
Diamondback Energy Inc. just gave one of the first shale production forecasts for next year, and it’s holding pat.
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November 02, 2021
The Biden administration is launching an assault on methane Tuesday, advancing initiatives across government - and the globe - to keep the potent, heat-trapping gas from escaping landfills, oil wells and farms.
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October 28, 2021
As U.S. House Democrats inch closer to striking a deal on a massive Budget Reconciliation package with their counterparts in the Senate, it is important to note the potential implications for jobs in the upstream sector of the U.S. oil and gas industry.
Webcast
Insights to Optimize Geosteering
October 12, 2021
Schlumberger
Join Schlumberger’s Vera Wibowo and Jean-Michel Denichou as they discuss the latest advancement in geosteering services with the PeriScope Edge, a recently introduced deep resistive LWD technology. The pair discuss how geosteering has become a fundamental part of modern field development, where simple geometric target drilling could result in far less than optimal recovery and increased non-productive time.
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October 19, 2021
Banks are gradually offering more credit to U.S. shale oil and natural gas producers as the industry recovers from last year’s contraction and energy prices rally.
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October 14, 2021
A coastal California county’s attempt to curb new oil and gas development suffered another blow when an appeals court upheld a ruling striking down a ban on new wells and hydraulic fracturing.
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October 13, 2021
Halliburton Company released the iStar Intelligent Drilling and Logging Platform, a comprehensive measurement platform comprising multiple services for greater control of drilling and logging operations.
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October 12, 2021
The GoRigless ESP System is a proprietary through-tubing deployment and slickline-retrieval technology for AccessESP high-performance permanent magnet motors and industry-standard ESP pumps.
