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Students get eye-opening experience at IADC Environmental Conference
Posted on 14 July 2011 in 2011, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, July/August
When Stephanie Liddelow, a petroleum engineering student from the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT), took her seat in the conference room of the Hyatt Regency in Port of Spain, Trinidad, on 12 May, she did not know quite what to expect…
Wirelines
Posted on 14 July 2011 in 2011, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, July/August
The Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas Safety Outreach Team held its first meeting at the Bismarck, N.D., State College’s National Energy Center of Excellence on 27 May to discuss the formulation of safety standards for the oil and gas industry…
News Cuttings
Posted on 14 July 2011 in 2011, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, July/August
The IADC North Sea Chapter (NSC) celebrated the safety successes of its members at the annual Safety Awards dinner held at the Mercure Ardoe House in Aberdeen on 13 May…
Guest editorial: Who broke this? The fine art of finger-pointing when a rig fails
Posted on 06 July 2011 in 2011, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, July/August, Videos
Driven by the natural desire to identify what went wrong, blame is the predisposition of our dysfunctional industry. Instead of being grounded in a model of continuous improvement, we structure our organizations around the protection of proven business models and motivate ourselves by successfully adjudicating blame…
Dismantling our industry, rig by rig
Posted on 04 May 2011 in 2011, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, May/June
Our industry has fought the Obama Administration in the judiciary, in congress and in the media. Yet, in defiance of federal court orders and repeated bipartisan requests…
Wirelines
Posted on 04 May 2011 in 2011, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, May/June
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is proposing to require all motor carriers that are currently required to maintain Records of Duty Status (RODS) for Hours of Service (HOS) recordkeeping…
News Cuttings
Posted on 04 May 2011 in 2011, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, May/June
The IADC Contracts Committee has begun a thorough review of the IADC Offshore Daywork Drilling Contract – US in view of new regulatory requirements and operating practices in the Gulf of Mexico…
We’ve only just begun…
Posted on 23 March 2011 in 2011, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, March/April
As we approach the first anniversary of the Macondo tragedy, the drilling industry remains far from back to normal. The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) issued the first deepwater…
Wirelines
Posted on 23 March 2011 in 2011, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, March/April
Ensco won a motion for a preliminary injunction in mid-February against the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE), which has been ordered to take action on five of Ensco’s pending…
News Cuttings
Posted on 23 March 2011 in 2011, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, March/April
IADC was among a number of international organizations invited to participate in the G20 Global Marine Environmental Protection (GMEP) group meeting…
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