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January 28, 2015
Oil prices will recover as early as the first half of this year as producers cut back, Continental Resources Inc. founder and CEO Harold Hamm said Wednesday.
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January 27, 2015
PetroQuip Energy Services has successfully run its Big Foot toe sleeve in a recent horizontal completion for an independent operator in the Anadarko basin.
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January 21, 2015
ABERDEEN, United Kingdom -- Deep Casing Tools has announced the establishment of new branch office in the Jebel Ali Free Zone (JAFZA) area in the United Arab Emirates.
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January 20, 2015
HOUSTON -- Noble Energy has announced that its Madison exploration well in the Gulf of Mexico reached the targeted Upper and Middle Miocene objectives and did not encounter commercial hydrocarbons.
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January 20, 2015
STAVANGER, Norway -- Statoil has recieved consent from Petroleum Safety Authority Norway to use the West Epsilon mobile drilling facility for production drilling on Gudrun field located in the North Sea.
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January 20, 2015
MILAN, Italy -- Eni obtained a three-year extension from the Angolan authorities to the exploration period of the prolific Block 15/06, located in Angola’s offshore, approximately 350 km north-west of the capital Luanda and 130 km east of Soyo town.
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January 19, 2015
NORFOLK, United States -- Claxton is extending its large surface riser inventory to meet operators’ needs as more heavy-duty jackup rigs enter the North Sea.
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January 16, 2015
HAMBURG, Germany -- RWE Dea will not spud the next field development well -- Völkersen Nord Z7 -- at Germany’s Völkersen gas field, the company said.
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January 16, 2015
MASON, Michigan -- Fossil Bay Energy has entered into a license agreement with Weatherford Technology Holdings. Fossil Bay has been granted the exclusive right in the U.S. to make, use and sell exhaust gas handling equipment that incorporates three Weatherford patents in the field of use of oil and gas reservoir injection and pressurization applications.
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January 16, 2015
VERNAL, Utah -- Superior Drilling Products has purchased the exclusive manufacturing, marketing and sales rights and the current inventory of the OrBIT completion drill bit product line from Tenax Energy Solutions.
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January 14, 2015
WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration plans to require the oil and gas industry to cut methane emissions from the drilling and transportation of fossil fuels by as much as 45% over the next decade, another step in its efforts to curb greenhouse gases tied to climate change.
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January 12, 2015
HOUSTON -- Atwood Oceanics has announced that one of its subsidiaries has entered into an agreement to provide drilling services with the jackup rig Atwood Mako.
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January 12, 2015
ABERDEEN, United Kingdom -- EFC Group has been awarded contracts with major oil and gas drilling contractor companies to the value of $5.52 million (£3.65 million).
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January 10, 2015
HOUSTON (Bloomberg) -- After six straight months of plunging oil prices, U.S. shale drillers have sent the clearest signal to date that they’re retreating.
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January 10, 2015
HOUSTON (Bloomberg) -- U.S. drillers idled rigs seeking oil this week as an expanding glut of supply in the global market pushed crude prices below $50/bbl for the first time in more than five years. Rigs seeking U.S. oil declined by 61 to 1,421, Baker Hughes Inc. said on its website. It was the largest drop in rigs since February 1991. Those drilling for natural gas rose by one to 329, and miscellaneous rigs dropped by one to zero. The total fell 61 to 1,750.
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January 09, 2015
HOUSTON -- Baker Hughes has announced that the U.S. onshore well count for the fourth quarter of 2014 was 9,544 wells, relatively unchanged compared to the third quarter of 2014. Compared to the fourth quarter 2013, the well count was up 461 wells or 5%.
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January 09, 2015
WEST PERTH, Australia -- Otto Energy has announced that PNOC Exploration Company (PNOC-EC) has expressed an interest in farming into SC55 for a 15% working interest.
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January 08, 2015
NORFOLK, United States -- Claxton, an Acteon company, has installed more than 5,000 conductor guide centralizers, making the company the market leader for conductor centralizer installation in the North Sea.
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January 08, 2015
HOUSTON -- Halcon Resources Corp. has announced further reductions to its 2015 drilling and completion budget. In November, the company announced a budget of $750 to $800 million and said that it intended to operate six rigs in 2015, five less than originally planned. However, Halcon has now announced a revised drilling and completions budget of $375 to $425 million and cut even more rigs.
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January 08, 2015
HOUSTON (Bloomberg) -- U.S. oil producers are bailing out of long-term contracts for drilling rigs as crude prices sink below $50, another signal that the nation’s shale boom is slowing. Yesterday, Helmerich & Payne Inc., the biggest rig operator in the U.S., said it had received early termination notices for four contracts. Today, a second contract driller, Pioneer Energy Services Corp., said four rigs had been canceled early. Producers may cut short another 50 to 60 agreements, according to Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Andrew Cosgrove.
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January 08, 2015
DENVER, Colorado (Bloomberg) -- U.S. states are renewing efforts to pass taxes on oil and gas extraction and, while falling energy prices may please consumers, drillers say it’s just the wrong time to raise their costs. At least 17 states last year considered imposing or amending so-called severance taxes, which generated more than $16 billion in 2013 in the U.S. Many are expected to introduce similar bills this year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures in Denver.
