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When it comes to current rig moves, accounting for 37% of incidents in 2018, there is room for more safety and efficiency gains. Whether it is how the rig itself is designed, with added input from the trucking industry to improve the hauling of the equipment, or a system for maintaining both day and night crews to keep up with the 24-hour demand, there is opportunity to improve. Tom Halliday, VP of Operations at Aveda Transportation and Energy Services, spoke on the panel at the 2019 IADC Drilling Onshore Conference & Exhibition in Houston on 16 May. In this video, Mr Halliday discusses his greatest challenges as a rig mover, plans the IADC Rig Move Committee has to draft best ...

The right metrics can empower and provide accountability to teams striving to reach certain performance goals. Chesapeake Energy’s Fast Tool Box gives employees access to an integrated set of real-time drilling and business metrics, setting the company culture around this new, high-performance tool...

Oceaneering has secured a drilling and completion support contract for integrated services with Wintershall Norge...

Underbalanced coiled-tubing drilling (UBCTD) offers operators a way to capture significant extra value out of known reserves and makes maximizing returns from declining fields a viable proposition...