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The 5th edition ballot of API Standard 53, "Blowout Prevention Equipment Systems for Drilling Wells," has been issued and can be found here. This proposed edition features new language applicable to onshore BOP equipment. Comments can be submitted via API's website using ballot ID 4329. Anyone can comment on a letter ballot, and all ballot responses are due on or before 21 February 2018...

IADC and the Brazil Institute of Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels (IBP) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on 4 May in Houston. The MOU establishes a framework through which the organizations will...

The North American rotary rig count has jumped by 103 units since last month, according to the IADC rig count, as reported by Baker Hughes. This includes 659 rigs in the US, which is up from 637 last month, as well as 315 rigs in Canada...

Opportunities abound for the drilling industry even in an environment of high costs and falling oil prices, Randall D. Stilley, President & CEO of Paragon Offshore, said...

It has been more than four years since Macondo, and the long-term effects of the oil spill are still being determined. “Oil is a natural substance that can be degraded...

The Well Control Institute (WCI) Board of Directors convened on 11 November in New Orleans. Moe Plaisance, who recently retired from Diamond Offshore Drilling, has...

Before joining IADC, Taf Powell served with the European Commission as an expert adviser in offshore drilling and...

Approximately half of all loss of well control (LWC) incidents that occur on the US Continental Shelf may benefit from early kick detection, a study commissioned by the...

In 2007, the US Department of Justice initiated an industry sweep targeting oilfield service companies, instigated by the government’s perceptions of the industry’s...

Although Ebola is the disease that’s dominating the bulk of media attention these days, malaria is perhaps the disease that companies should be thinking more about in...