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D&C News
Posted on 17 May 2009 in 2009, Departments, May/June
StatoilHydro has acquired a 40% stake in 50 blocks from BHP Billiton in the frontier DeSoto Canyon area of the US Gulf of Mexico. “DeSoto Canyon is a mostly unexplored region…
Drilling Ahead: When the recovery? Curmudgeon Pessimist or Unrepentant Optimist?
Posted on 17 May 2009 in 2009, Departments, May/June
This is a tough old industry, with more than its share of ups and downs – particularly the downs, which historically have wielded an iron upper hand. One of the recurring wonders…
Drilling Ahead: IADC Advanced Rig Tech group ‘imagines’ end to downtime
Posted on 12 March 2009 in 2009, Departments, March/April
Ah, yes, you may call me a dreamer. But – with apologies to John Lennon – the IADC Advanced Rig Technology Committee is doing everything it can in its small way to approach this reality…
D&C News
Posted on 12 March 2009 in 2009, Departments, March/April
Tullow Oil announced that the Tweneboa-1 exploration well, in the Deepwater Tano licence offshore Ghana, has discovered a significant highly pressured, light hydrocarbon accumulation…
D&C Tech Digest
Posted on 12 March 2009 in 2009, Departments, March/April
Helix Energy Solutions Group recently completed installation of drilling equipment on its MODU Q4000 multi-service vessel, equipped with a DP-3 system…
People, Companies & Products
Posted on 12 March 2009 in 2009, Departments, March/April
Apache chairman and CEO G Steven Farris has formed an office of the chief executive with three executives reporting to him: Roger B Plank, CFO since 1997…
Perspectives: David Reid, National Oilwell Varco
Posted on 12 March 2009 in 2009, Departments, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, March/April
In what David Reid calls the “inventing/creating world” in his head, there are definitive ideas about how things should be and strong opinions about right and wrong…
Oman training center supports safety, operational goals
Posted on 12 March 2009 in 2009, Departments, Drilling It Safely, March/April
The Nabors International Oman Training Center (OTC) in Muscat, which began operating 12 years ago, originally trained rig mechanics and electricians…
Drilling Ahead
Posted on 17 January 2009 in 2009, Departments, January/February
This is the downturn everyone expected. They just didn’t expect it so soon. Anyone with a sense of history of the oil and gas business is wise to the reality that a ceaseless upward cycle just is not in the cards. The cards always come tumbling down…
Perspectives
Posted on 17 January 2009 in 2009, Departments, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, January/February
Salvador – it’s Brazil’s oldest city (founded in 1549), one of its largest (3 million-plus people in the metropolitan area), and a vibrant place known as the country’s “Capital da Alegria,” or “Capital of Happiness…”
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...