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HSE&T corner: Eight steps to grow the right people
Posted on 16 January 2012 in 2012, Departments, 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, Departments, 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, Departments, 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, Departments, 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, Departments, 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, Departments, 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, Departments, 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, Departments, 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, Departments, 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, Departments, 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…
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