Archive | 2013
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Risk-based approach to competency places focus on rig floor, well control
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, Drilling It Safely, January/February
Contractors expanding safety management systems to formalize stronger process safety components. For the majority of drilling contractors…
Plenary session to explore impact of stakeholders’ growing expectations, heightened public awareness
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, Features, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, January/February
The 2013 SPE/IADC Drilling Conference and Exhibition, 5-7 March in Amsterdam, will provide leading industry thinkers…
News Cuttings
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, January/February
Maersk Drilling vice president and senior technical advisor Gregers Kudsk was named the 2012 IADC Contractor of the Year…
Survey: Rising operating costs pose biggest industry challenge in Asia Pacific
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, Global and Regional Markets, January/February
Industry professionals are bullish about the near-term outlook for Asia Pacific, but rising operating costs as the region transitions from “easy” production…
Weatherford anticipates growth in Asia Pacific unconventional, intervention markets
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, Global and Regional Markets, January/February
Oilfield services company Weatherford is anticipating near-term growth in a number of sectors in Asia Pacific, particularly…
People, companies and products
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, Departments, January/February
Travis Hubert Petty, the former CEO of El Paso Co who got his start in the mailroom, died 21 December in Colorado Springs, Colo., at age 84. “He lived a real American story…
Drilling Ahead: Let’s not shoot ourselves in the foot over shales
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, Departments, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, January/February
Amid a seemingly endless barrage of negative press, demonstrations and moratoriums, I was heartened to see the United Kingdom…
D&C News
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, Departments, January/February
Maersk Drilling and Maersk Training inaugurated the MOSAIC II, Maersk’s offshore simulator training complex in Svendborg, Denmark in late 2012…
D&C Tech Digest
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, Departments, January/February
The first commercial application of a new support system for conductor casing operations is under way on ConocoPhillips Norway’s Ekofisk field…
Critical Issues in Drilling & Completions
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, Features, January/February
For all the big iron the drilling industry has spent billions of dollars building that can lift millions of pounds and drill miles beneath the earth’s surface, for all the highly sophisticated downhole technologies that can match anything in the aerospace or nuclear industries, much of our efforts are now…
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27 January 2015
US EIA: Lower 48 oil production outlook stable despite expected rig count reduction
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27 January 2015
Hess announces 2015 capital, exploratory budget
Hess Corp announced a 2015 capital and exploratory budget of $4.7 billion, a 16% reduction from its 2014 actual spend of $5.6 billion. Of this, $2.1 billion (45%) is budgeted for unconventional shale resources...
26 January 2015
Young professionals program at SPE/IADC Drilling Conference to target future leaders of the industry
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