Completions
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April 23, 2015
Estimated total U.S. oil and natural gas well completions decreased by 8% in the first quarter of 2015 compared to year-ago levels, according to API's 2015 Quarterly Well Completion Report, First Quarter.
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April 23, 2015
STAVANGER, Norway -- Det norske oljeselskap AS, operator of production licence 001 B, has completed the drilling of appraisal wells 16/1-21 S and 16/1-21 A on Ivar Aasen field, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate reports.
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April 17, 2015
Aker Solutions and Fjords Processing have formed an alliance to develop technology and capabilities for advanced, cost-effective wellstream separation and treatment solutions for the subsea and topside oil and gas industry.
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April 16, 2015
The profitability of some U.S. shale wells at current prices will almost double as cost cutting and technology turns them into cash gushers despite oil’s crash.
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April 14, 2015
HOUSTON -- Paradigm has announced that Eco-Engineering Solutions, an independent, Houston-based provider of consulting and outsourcing services for drilling engineering and well operations, has adopted Sysdrill, the Paradigm well planning and drilling engineering software solution, for the delivery of drilling support services to its customers.
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April 10, 2015
Faced with continued market uncertainty due to falling oil prices in late 2014, U.S. oil producers operating in shale plays, such as the Eagle Ford in south Texas, have built a large inventory of nearly 1,400 drilled but uncompleted wells that are now driving the investment focus for many operators.
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April 09, 2015
Terves Inc. announced that more than 500 of its second-generation TervAlloy engineered disintegrating frac balls have been successfully deployed in horizontal frac completions in North America since their introduction in late 2014.
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April 09, 2015
The crude oil contango market in the U.S. has created a massive incentive to store oil and, while traditional storage hubs reach record high levels, Genscape analysts have identified a trend for operators to look to their own wells as an avenue to store oil until commodity market conditions improve.
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April 07, 2015
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania -- CONSOL Energy has announced the certification of its operational practices in the Appalachian basin by the Center for Sustainable Shale Development (CSSD).
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April 03, 2015
Saipem has entered into a JV with Dangote Group to create a new company named Saipem Dangote E&C.
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April 01, 2015
Caterpillar Oil & Gas has made an equity investment in GTUIT, a manufacturer of mobile gas treatment systems.
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April 01, 2015
CONSOL Energy and Halliburton have announced the deployment of the first frac spread that is fully compliant with EPA’s 2015 Tier 4F emissions standard for non-road, high-horsepower engines.
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March 30, 2015
Total has completed the divestment of its stake in onshore Oil Mining Lease (OML) 29 to Aiteo Eastern E&P, a Nigerian company, for $569 million. Together with the recently completed divestments of OML 24 and OML 18, Total’s share of sale proceeds from these three onshore Nigerian blocks amounts to over $1 billion.
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March 27, 2015
Schlumberger has announced the release of the ACTive OptiFIRE coiled tubing (CT) real-time selective perforating and activation system that enables perforating with CT fiber-optic real-time telemetry.
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March 25, 2015
HAMILTON, Bermuda -- C&J Energy Services, Inc. and Nabors Industries Ltd. have completed the combination of C&J with Nabors' completion and production services business.
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March 24, 2015
HOUSTON -- Halliburton’s Completion Tools business line has introduced the EquiFlow OptiSteam flow control device (FCD) for steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) injectors.
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March 19, 2015
Tenaris is introducing its BlueCoil technology, the next generation of coiled tubing, with improved operational performance over conventional tubing.
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March 20, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C -- New regulations on hydraulic fracturing on federal lands, issued by the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management, will stifle energy growth and lead to costly delays, the American Petroleum Institute (API) said.
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March 20, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration issued the first federal regulations for fracing since the drilling technique fueled a domestic energy boom, requiring extensive disclosures of the chemicals used on public land.
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March 20, 2015
Halliburton and Baker Hughes plan to begin seeking buyers next month for as much as $10 billion in assets that the oil-services companies need to sell in order to complete their merger, people with knowledge of the matter said.
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March 11, 2015
Antelope Oil Tool has developed the CentraMax series, a unique centralizer design that provides a solution to enhance standoff and efficiency in cementing operations.
