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People, companies and products
Posted on 03 May 2013 in 2013, Departments, May/June
United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has opened a pipe plant in Houston, with first pipe produced in December 2012…
Drilling Ahead: Webinar on competency clarifies complex topic
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, Departments, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, March/April
Technology is our industry’s defibrillator. Without it, we would have shared the same calamitous demise that befell blacksmiths and buggy makers. Unable to pursue any but the lowest-hanging fruit, we’d end up beating our rigs into plowshares…
Drilling & Completion Tech Digest
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, Departments, March/April
Halliburton, Apache Corp and Caterpillar have developed dual-fuel technology to safely and efficiently power the pumping equipment used for fracturing treatments with a mixture of natural gas and diesel. With 12 pumps (24,000 hp), it is one of the largest dual-fuel projects in the industry…
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Drilling & Completion News
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, Departments, March/April
Keppel FELS has delivered the UMW Naga 4 jackup to UMW Oil & Gas five days ahead of schedule in February, on budget and with a perfect safety record…
Trent Latshaw, Latshaw Drilling: Lessons learned in setbacks lead to greater success
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, Departments, Exclusive Video, March/April, Recent Drilling News, Videos
Arriving in Alaska in 1971, just three years after the Prudhoe Bay discovery, Trent Latshaw, now president and owner of…
News Cuttings
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, Departments, March/April
IADC presented Mike Hoyle, head of advanced engineering in GL Noble Denton’s UK marine and offshore operation…
People, companies and products
Posted on 18 March 2013 in 2013, Departments, March/April
Aker Solutions has signed a contract with Statoil for the supply of a subsea production system for the Aasta Hansteen field…
John Beswick, PR Marriott Drilling: Politics could hinder Euro-shale potential
Posted on 30 January 2013 in 2013, Departments, January/February
John Beswick, director of PR Marriott Drilling, grew up wanting to be a pilot…
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…
Recent Drilling News
21 May 2013
Chesapeake taps Anadarko senior VP as new CEO
Robert Douglas (“Doug”) Lawler, will join Chesapeake Energy as its CEO and a member of the Board of Directors, effective 17 June, the company announced...
15 May 2013
BP commits to renewed focus on upstream oil and gas over next decade
Over the next decade, as much as 75% to 80% of BP's majority group capital expenditure will be spent in upstream...
15 May 2013
Statoil sanctions Julia development in GOM with ExxonMobil, pushes ahead with Logan
Pursuing further growth in its US offshore portfolio, Statoil has sanctioned its fourth field development in the Gulf of Mexico...
15 May 2013
Exclusive video: New composite wireline cable contains seven-conductor electrical core
Serko Sarian, telemetry and conveyance portfolio manager for Schlumberger, talks with Drilling Contractor...
15 May 2013
PETRONAS: NOCs expand globally with increasing autonomy, financial strength
National oil companies (NOCs) continue to assume an increasingly meaningful role in the oil and gas industry...