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HSE&T corner: Eight steps to grow the right people
Posted on 16 January 2012 in 2012, Focus Areas, January/February
To increase retention of new employees, Patterson-UTI Drilling set aside traditional training approaches and implemented a multifaceted program to grow their own…
HSE Corner: Communication, participation among simple steps to boost JSA effectiveness
Posted on 08 November 2011 in 2011, Focus Areas, November/December
Redundancy can lead to complacency, and often, it takes a careless mistake and avoidable event to remind people to treat an everyday task with the utmost care…
Drilling Ahead: Today’s interesting times spawn puzzles, challenges
Posted on 08 November 2011 in 2011, Focus Areas, November/December
An apocryphal Chinese curse threatens, “May you live in interesting times.” Curse or no, few would argue that today’s E&P industry does not epitomize interesting times…
Drilling & Completion News
Posted on 08 November 2011 in 2011, Focus Areas, November/December
TAQA Bratani recently awarded a three-year contract to KCA DEUTAG to supply platform drilling and maintenance services to four North Sea drilling platforms…
Drilling & Completion Tech Digest
Posted on 08 November 2011 in 2011, Focus Areas, November/December
Landing Strings Solutions and Trelleborg Offshore have developed and manufactured the world’s first buoyancy module system deployed on a drill pipe landing string…
Perspectives: Dustin Torkay, Archer – On the fast track, setting technological goals within reach
Posted on 08 November 2011 in 2011, Focus Areas, November/December
In the race to the finish line, it was the hands-on experience that stuck with Dustin Torkay, project engineer at Archer. At 27, Mr Torkay is taking the fast route…
People, Companies & Products
Posted on 08 November 2011 in 2011, Focus Areas, November/December
Houston-based AmeriMex Motor and Controls recently developed the industry’s first single 2,000-hp drilling motor. It is designed to work with small and mobile equipment…
Drilling & Completion Tech Digest
Posted on 21 September 2011 in 2011, Focus Areas, September/October
Petrobras’ Brazilian natural gas output increased by 8% in July compared with the same month a year ago …
Drilling & Completion News
Posted on 21 September 2011 in 2011, Focus Areas, September/October
Maersk Drilling and Maersk Training have invested in a DrillSIM-6000 drilling simulator from UK-based Drilling Systems to be housed in a purpose-built complex in Svendborg, Denmark…
People, Companies & Products
Posted on 21 September 2011 in 2011, Focus Areas, September/October
R&M Energy Systems is offering the Hercules Lugless 150H BOP Cap, which allows operations to use a wrench rather than a hammer to secure the end caps…
Recent News
31 January 2012
Condition monitoring calls for drilling contractor, OEM collaboration
Evaluation and recertification programs for equipment and systems are plentiful, but offshore contractors are looking...
31 January 2012
From passive to proactive, condition monitoring gives rig operators advance warning of failures
As rigs are increasingly deployed to remote locations and equipped with complex electronic engines, the risks of...
31 January 2012
IADC accredits Baker Hughes competence management program
Baker Hughes has become the first integrated oilfield service company to receive full accreditation of its Competence Management Program...
31 January 2012
IADC’s Petty to lead ITAC Investment Working Group
The US Secretary of Commerce and US Trade Representative (USTR) have designated IADC executive VP – government affairs Brian Petty as chairman...
31 January 2012
MPD system facilitates top-hole drilling offshore Brazil
AGR has completed its first Brazilian operation using the EC-Drill system, a managed pressure drilling technology based on the RMR system and...