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Drilling & Completions Tech Digest
Posted on 25 March 2010 in 2010, Departments, March/April
ExxonMobil has completed the first two extended-reach wells at the Odoptu field offshore eastern Russia. ExxonMobil subsidiary Exxon Neftegas Ltd (ENL) is operator on behalf of the five-company international Sakhalin-1 Consortium…
Drilling & Completions News
Posted on 25 March 2010 in 2010, Departments, March/April
Vantage Drilling named their new rig, the Topaz Driller, in late February at the PPL Shipyards. A Baker Marine Pacific-class 375 rig, the Topaz Driller will go to work for PVEP Phu Quy Petroleum Operating Company offshore Vietnam…
Drilling Ahead: To MPD or not to MPD? Simplifying daunting decisions
Posted on 25 March 2010 in 2010, Departments, March/April
To MPD or not to MPD? That is the question posed not by Hamlet, but by George Medley, Signa Engineering, speaking at the 2010 SPE/IADC Managed Pressure Drilling & Underbalanced Operations Conference in Kuala Lumpur in late February…
Drilling and Completion: Tech Digest
Posted on 04 February 2010 in 2010, Departments, January/February
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People, Companies & Products
Posted on 04 February 2010 in 2010, Departments, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, January/February
Events and updates in People, Companies & Products. …
‘It’s all about working together and communicating’
Posted on 04 February 2010 in 2010, Departments, January/February
It should come as no surprise that Baker Hughes’ Rustom Mody is passionate about researching and developing high-tech solutions to the industry’s myriad completion and production problems. After all, he is the company’s vice president of technology for completions and production. …
Drilling Ahead: Once again, downturn has proven to be a good thing for technology
Posted on 04 February 2010 in 2010, Departments, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, January/February
Ever since the industry got rolled over by the monster how-low-will-it-go recession approximately 18 months ago, industry technology leaders have made various comments about how downturns can actually be a good thing for technological innovations. …
D&C News
Posted on 04 February 2010 in 2010, Departments, January/February
Drilling and completion news …
HSE Corner: 6 steps to a comprehensive fall protection program
Posted on 04 February 2010 in 2010, Departments, Drilling It Safely, January/February
Falls while working at height are all too common; the greater tragedy is that each fall is preventable. Approximately 2.3 million work-related deaths worldwide occur annually, with the construction industry accounting for about 60,000 of them. Around the world, fall protection is moving up companies’’ safety agenda. …
Drilling Ahead: Cashing in on the enviro agenda, Greenbacks for green drilling?
Posted on 12 November 2009 in 2009, Departments, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, November/December
Even as environmental agendas delay well permitting and cause other headaches, new opportunities may loom for “green” drilling. Two areas in particular present…
Recent Drilling News
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