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Precision Drilling's Alpha digital suite has been recognized with the 2020 Energy Excellence Awards “Innovation & Technology Excellence” champion, and the company has also received Hitachi’s Transformation Award for Data Insights Optimization...
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Precision Drilling receives awards for innovation and technology
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Audio interview: Pressure-based fracture maps address completion design
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IHS Markit: “Perfect storm” sets offshore rig utilization back on downward path
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Rystad Energy: Shales to be hardest-hit this year as oilfield service market falls by 15%
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Noble executes leadership transition plan
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Digital Reader – May/Jun 2020
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Drilling It Safely
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Precision Drilling receives awards for innovation and technology
Precision Drilling's Alpha digital suite has been recognized with the 2020 Energy Excellence Awards “Innovation & Technology Excellence” champion, and the company has also received Hitachi’s Transformation Award for Data Insights Optimization...
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Hybrid rig power system enables fuel savings, emissions reduction
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Petrobras takes human factors approach to improve safety and performance in deepwater drilling
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Why people don’t see hazards: a human performance perspective
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Industry group develops recommended practice to standardize guidance for integrating human performance into organizations
Drilling Rigs & Automation
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Leveraging drillers as coaches helps to increase new technology uptake
To increase overall drilling performance and the repeatability of successfully drilled wells, drilling contractors have been developing or acquiring process automation technologies for years. Drilling automation technology encompasses everything from basic autodrillers all the way up to complete slips-to-slips automation...
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GOM, Norway case studies show how dual-physics imaging enhances geological characterization in real time
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Gas-powered engines boost efficiency using energy storage, automation
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As MPD grows in popularity, manufacturers evolve to meet contractor, operator demand
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Weatherford launches software platform for streamlining digital wellsite operations
The Offshore Frontier
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IHS Markit: “Perfect storm” sets offshore rig utilization back on downward path
While offshore drilling contractors entered 2020 hoping this would be the turnaround year, it’s becoming clear they will continue to be plagued by dayrate and utilization challenges in the short term...
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Neptune conducts dual-drilling operation from integrated subsea template structure
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Saudi Aramco suspends contract for Noble Scott Marks jackup
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Lessons learned from qualification of 20,000-psi subsea BOP stack
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Lundin receives green light to drill Barents Sea well
Completing the Well
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Ace Oil Tools launches the Ace Splice Clamp
Ace Oil Tools has launched its new Ace Splice Clamp (ASC) to the completions market. Allowing multiple lines to be spliced with a single clamp, the ASC is a "sub-less" downhole product that protects the control lines during completion...
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Model predictive control could help operators optimize completion costs in real time
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To succeed in shales, learnings must be scaled quickly so wells are not just best-in-class but repeatable
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Halliburton releases new imaging technology to identify fracture networks
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New perforating technology enhances mechanical isolation-type recompletions