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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
23 May 2013
Honghua developing new-generation shale-drilling rig, plans testing of frac pump
Honghua Group and its US subsidiary Honghua America are developing a next-generation onshore rig...
21 May 2013
Exclusive video: How leaders can achieve and sustain safety excellence
Leaders can achieve more in safety excellence by focusing on what they want employees to...
21 May 2013
Exclusive video with Marshall Adkins: Bearish on oil, relatively more bullish on natural gas
Marshall Adkins, managing director of Raymond James & Associates, speaks with...
21 May 2013
Marathon Oil: 3,000-plus wells possible in Eagle Ford acreage
Marathon Oil has determined that it may drill more than 3,000 wells in its Eagle...
21 May 2013
Noble Energy moves toward mixed fleet of LNG-dedicated, dual-fuel rigs
After a pilot program initiated in early 2011 to compare the use of LNG versus diesel to power...