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Drilling automation: Is resistance futile?
Posted on 06 July 2011 in 2011, Features, Innovating While Drilling, July/August, The Efficient Rig, Videos
“Automation”: Say the word the right way with the right group of people in drilling circles, and it can almost come off as an obscenity. Drilling is an art, they say, with too many unpredictabilities. How can it be entrusted in the hands of a bunch of machines, computers and algorithms?
Nabors’ modular Rig 702 is Papua New Guinea-bound for ExxonMobil
Posted on 06 July 2011 in News, The Efficient Rig
Nabors International unveiled its new modular Rig 702, the first of two headed for Papua New Guinea (PNG) for a 900-day contract with options for…
Maersk Drilling orders two ultra-deepwater drillships
Posted on 06 July 2011 in News, The Efficient Rig
Maersk Drilling has ordered the construction of two ultra-deepwater drillships at Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea for delivery in…
Asia Offshore Drilling orders new KFELS B Class jackup
Posted on 06 July 2011 in News, The Efficient Rig
Asia Offshore Drilling (AOD) has exercised the first of two options to build a KFELS B Class jackup rig worth US$184 million with Keppel FELS…
Contractors awarded jackup work, FEED project for modular rig
Posted on 07 June 2011 in News, The Efficient Rig
KCA DEUTAG has been selected by Woodside Energy to carry out a major front end engineering design (FEED) contract relating to a 3,000-hp modular…
Wild Well Control to offer subsea capping system for up to 15,000-ft water depths
Posted on 10 May 2011 in Drilling It Safely, News, The Efficient Rig
Wild Well Control will introduce a global subsea well containment system this fall, according to an…
Shear All Ram features curved asymmetrical blades
Posted on 10 May 2011 in Drilling It Safely, News, The Efficient Rig
The Shear All Ram (SAR) was introduced last week at OTC, a BOP ram design whose field tests show it has the ability to shear “any size pipe and casing with…
Hybrid coiled-tubing system offers stimulation option for extended-reach wells
Posted on 12 April 2011 in News, The Efficient Rig
A new hybrid coiled-tubing (CT) system is enabling the efficient use of CT in extended-reach wells…
Alpha Star semi delivered to Brazil’s Queiroz Galvão
Posted on 29 March 2011 in News, The Efficient Rig
Keppel FELS has delivered the Alpha Star, the second of two DSS 38 semisubmersible rigs, to Brazil’s Queiroz Galvão Óleo e Gás (QGOG)…
Low-force shear adds value to today’s BOPs
Posted on 21 March 2011 in 2011, Drilling It Safely, March/April, The Efficient Rig
With the increased use of stronger and tougher tubulars in today’s well construction, the ability to shear in the blowout preventer (BOP) without turning to larger operators is an…
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