The global industry outlook is bearish in the near-term. Oil supply is growing twice as fast as demand, and the simple solution to this oversupply is to lower prices…
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Jenkins: Addressing BOP maintenance can help to curb rising costs in GOM
The continuing increase in drilling and completion costs is a concern involving all industry stakeholders, Murphy Oil’s President & CEO emphasized at the 2014 IADC Annual General Meeting…
Read More »Brady Long, Robert Urbanowski receive IADC Exemplary Service Awards
IADC awarded Ensco’s Brady Long and Precision Drilling’s Robert Urbanowski with Exemplary Service Awards at the 2014 IADC Annual General Meeting…
Read More »Ed Jacob is 2014 IADC Contractor of the Year
Ed Jacob, Director, President and Chief Operating Officer of Independence Contract Drilling, has been recognized as the 2014 IADC Contractor of the Year…
Read More »Hess, Chevron commence production from Tubular Bells Field in Gulf of Mexico
Hess Corp announced that production has commenced from the Tubular Bells Field, located in the Mississippi Canyon area of the deepwater Gulf of Mexico...
Read More »IADC Board elects Ed Jacob as 2015 Chairman
Ed Jacob, Director, President and COO of Independence Contract Drilling, has been elected to serve as 2015 IADC Chairman. Additionally, Thomas Burke, President of Rowan Companies, was elected as...
Read More »BP launches robotic core-flooding system
The complete automation and workflow optimization in BP's new Core Flood Robot enables hundreds of core flood tests to be performed each year, rather than dozens...
Read More »Statoil suspends 2 rigs due to overcapacity
Statoil has decided to suspend two new rigs due to overcapacity in the rig portfolio. Transocean Spitsbergen and Songa Trym will be suspended through 2014, a period which might be extended...
Read More »NOV top drive control software mitigates torsional vibration in Eagle Ford
In a recent 13-well program in the Eagle Ford, National Oilwell Varco (NOV) deployed its top drive control software, SoftSpeed II, to mitigate torsional vibration...
Read More »All-liquid cementing system completes 5 jobs in Gulf of Mexico
Compared with conventional cements, Baker Hughes’ all-liquid FoamSet system maintains a constant pressure to keep the water or gas in the formation and out of the cement...
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