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People, Companies and Products
Posted on 14 July 2010 in Departments, July/August
Nautronix Group has appointed Rodney Eads as a non-executive board member. Mr Eads has 35 years of experience in the upstream energy business…
HSE Corner: Taking lessons in standardization, discipline from fighter pilot training to offshore drilling
Posted on 14 July 2010 in Departments, Drilling It Safely, July/August
Our industry has come a long way in developing safe and efficient training. However, Brian “Bru” Brurud developed a new spin on the subject…
D&C Tech Digest
Posted on 14 July 2010 in Departments, July/August
ExxonMobil has completed the world’s longest extended-reach well drilled from an existing offshore fixed platform drilling rig, increasing the…
D&C News
Posted on 14 July 2010 in Departments, July/August
Pride International has been awarded a one-year contract by OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes SA for the mid-water semisubmersible Pride Venezuela…
Suspending drilling is non-solution that will only beget more problems
Posted on 14 July 2010 in Departments, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, July/August
Just a few weeks ago, as I was watching TV and flipping the channel back and forth between CNN’s endless coverage of the BP oil spill and the MTV Movie Awards…
D&C News
Posted on 30 April 2010 in 2010, Departments, May/June
The Offshore Energy Center (OEC) is vigorously pursuing an initiative to bring the offshore industry to classrooms through its Mobile Offshore Learning Units (MOLU)…
Drilling Ahead: Balanced energy strategy beats demonizing natural gas
Posted on 30 April 2010 in 2010, Departments, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, May/June
In the oil and gas business, most people adopt an evenly balanced approach to energy and the environment. The people I brush shoulders with don’t trumpet oil-and-gas solutions for every niggling energy problem…
D&C Tech Digest
Posted on 30 April 2010 in 2010, Departments, May/June
Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), using Rig KDC-41, has drilled what it believes to be the shallowest horizontal well ever drilled in Kuwait and the Middle East and with the shallowest kick-off point worldwide…
4 steps to assess, avoid musculoskeletal injury
Posted on 30 April 2010 in 2010, Departments, Drilling It Safely, May/June
Safety is an ongoing concern for our industry. From fire-resistant suits to protective eyewear and headgear, rig crews have access to a plethora of external protective equipment safety…
People, Companies & Products
Posted on 30 April 2010 in 2010, Departments, May/June
Edward O “Coots” Matthews, co-founder of Boots & Coots passed away 31 March. He was 86 years old. “Boots & Coots recently celebrated its 30th anniversary, and we owe a…
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