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Posted on 10 July 2014 in 2014, IADC: Global Leadership, Global Challenges, July/August
The IADC North Sea Chapter (NSC) recognized the best in safety performance at its annual Safety Awards ceremony held in Aberdeen on 16 May. Northern Offshore and Noble Drilling…
Martin Culen: In future, MPD equipment on rigs will be as common as seat belts in cars
Posted on 10 July 2014 in 2014, Departments, July/August
When Martin Culen joined a Canada-based oilfield services company in 1996, he wasn’t entirely sure that this was the industry for him. He had wanted to put his mechanical…
People, companies and products
Posted on 10 July 2014 in 2014, Departments, July/August
Alden James “Doc” Laborde, an offshore drilling pioneer who transformed the drilling industry with innovations that made it possible to drill farther and in deeper waters…
Onshore Drilling & Technology Briefs: Unit Drilling launches new rig design; China preps for large-scale shale development
Posted on 10 July 2014 in 2014, Global and Regional Markets, Innovating While Drilling, July/August, Onshore Advances, The Efficient Rig
Unit Drilling has put the first of its newly designed BOSS series, Rig 401, to work in the Texas Panhandle for Unit Petroleum. The 1,500-hp, AC-powered walking rig…
Tubular integrity begins with assurance of robust connections
Posted on 10 July 2014 in 2014, Completing the Well, July/August, The Efficient Rig
The integrity of the tubular string is only as good as the connection between each joint. Connection makeup acceptance and accuracy are critical to casing string integrity, which provides a secure mechanical…
API publishes standard for community engagement
Posted on 10 July 2014 in News, Onshore Advances
API has published an industry standard for community engagement in areas of the country where horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have opened new energy…
Claxton completes rigless removal of a stuck BHA during slot recovery
Posted on 09 July 2014 in Completing the Well, Drilling It Safely, Global and Regional Markets, Innovating While Drilling, News, The Offshore Frontier
Claxton Engineering Services, an Acteon company, has completed the first rigless removal of a stuck bottomhole assembly (BHA). The work was completed during a slot recovery…
Diamond Offshore appoints Woll as Senior VP, Chief Commercial Officer
Posted on 08 July 2014 in News, The Offshore Frontier
Diamond Offshore has appointed Ronald Woll as Senior VP and Chief Commercial Officer, effective immediately. Based in Houston, Mr Woll will have oversight of the company’s…
Maintaining pressure key to casing integrity
Posted on 08 July 2014 in Completing the Well, Drilling It Safely, News
For drilling contractors, asset integrity is most strongly linked to the reliability and performance of drilling rigs and the equipment onboard those rigs. However, many…
Hardbanding alloys, application methods evolve to meet demands of intensive pad drilling campaigns
Posted on 08 July 2014 in Drilling It Safely, Innovating While Drilling, News
Back when hydrocarbon recovery meant drilling a vertical, straight, open-hole well, hardbanding was simply a matter of applying tungsten carbides to protect and extend the…
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31 July 2014
Eni discovers gas and condensates offshore Gabon
Eni has made a gas and condensates discovery in the Nyonie Deep exploration prospect in block D4, approximately 13 km offshore Gabon and 50 km from the capital city Libreville...
31 July 2014
Blue Ocean Technologies: Subsea well intervention completed in 6,700- ft record depth
Blue Ocean Technologies has set multiple records in subsea well intervention by intervening in, and subsequently plugging and abandoning, a production gas...
30 July 2014
Fugro’s DeepData pod provides data for deepwater riser monitoring
Fugro has delivered a motion dataset from the BOP stack and lower riser of two deepwater wells in the Barents Sea using its DeepData pods. The DeepData pods...
28 July 2014
SDI completes 500th MagTraC MWD Ranging project
Scientific Drilling International (SDI) has completed the 500th MagTraC MWD Ranging project. MagTraC was introduced in 1998 to target challenging applications...
28 July 2014
Modular offshore rig design reduces deployment costs
William Jacob Management (WJM) has introduced an offshore rig design that reduces deployment costs and improves speed-to-market for upstream operations. The 3,000-hp...