Completions
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December 16, 2014
HOUSTON -- Hoover Container Solutions has announced the installation of Thermo Oxidizer units at its Scott, Louisiana, and Houston service facilities.
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December 15, 2014
AUSTIN – The Texas Railroad Commission's Information Technology Modernization Program is streamlining the Commission’s permitting process for drilling permits. Expedited permit processing was reduced from a peak of 30 days experienced with a surge in industry activity in the spring of this year to a one-day processing rate in November.
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December 12, 2014
HOUSTON (Bloomberg) -- U.S. oil drillers, facing the lowest crude prices in five years and escalating competition from suppliers abroad, idled the most rigs in almost two years this week. Rigs targeting oil dropped by 29 to 1,546, the lowest level since June and the biggest decline since December 2012, Baker Hughes Inc. said. Those drilling for natural gas increased by two to 346, the Houston-based field services company said. The total count fell 27 to 1,893, the fewest since August.
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December 12, 2014
SINGAPORE -- InterOil Corporation has made a discovery at the Bobcat-1 exploration well in PPL476.
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December 11, 2014
HOUSTON -- VAALCO Energy announced the completion of the Etame 8-H, the first development well drilled from the newly installed Etame platform, offshore Gabon.
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December 10, 2014
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Bloomberg) -- YPF SA and Petroliam Nasional Bhd., state-controlled companies from Argentina and Malaysia, signed a $550 million deal to drill fields at the world’s fourth-largest shale oil deposit in Patagonia’s Vaca Muerta.
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December 10, 2014
HONG KONG -- CNOOC has signed three production sharing contracts (PSCs) with KUFPEC for Blocks 52/22, 52/26 and 63/13 located in the Yinggehai basin of the South China Sea.
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December 09, 2014
ADELAIDE, Australia -- Origin Energy has confirmed its Speculant-1 exploration well discovered potentially commercial quantities of gas in Waarre Formation reservoirs in the Otway basin, offshore Victoria, within the Origin operated VIC/L1(v) permit.
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December 09, 2014
HOUSTON – TAM International, an independent oilfield services company providing inflatable and swellable packers, unveiled its new 22-in. Casing Annulus Packer, or LongCAP, developed for a major international oil company.
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December 09, 2014
BRIDGEND, Wales -- Guardian Global Technologies has chosen GEODynamics to be the sole U.S. distributor of the Guardian Select Fire Switch.
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December 08, 2014
CALGARY, Alberta – Precision Drilling Corp., Canada's largest oilfield services company, is to slash its capital spending by more than 40% next year, the company said.
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December 08, 2014
DALLAS -- Well completion provider FTS International has acquired J-W Energy's subsidiary, J-W Wireline Company, the two companies have announced.
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December 08, 2014
STAVANGER, Norway -- Centrica Resources Norge, operator of production license 528 B, is about to complete drilling of wildcat well 6707/10-3 S. The well resulted in a minor gas discovery.
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December 08, 2014
LONDON -- Europa Oil & Gas has received a new prospect inventory from Kosmos Energy, the operator of the licenses FEL 2/13 and FEL 3/13, in the South Porcupine basin, offshore Ireland.
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December 08, 2014
CLAREMONT, Australia -- Empire has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with drilling contractor Enerdrill for the drilling of upto three wells (subject to successful fundraising).
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December 08, 2014
SINGAPORE -- Goldpetrol, a jointly controlled entity of Interra Resources, has commenced drilling development well CHK 1195 in the Chauk oil field in Myanmar.
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December 07, 2014
STAVANGER, Norway -- Statoil has extended the the suspension periods for COSL Pioneer, Scarabeo 5 and Songa Trym due to overcapacity in the rig portfolio. The suspensions are also a result of the failed attempts to mature alternative tasks for the rigs.
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December 06, 2014
HOUSTON (Bloomberg) -- The boom in U.S. oil production will live to see another week. The nation’s crude explorers, engaged in a pricing war with the world’s largest suppliers, defied predictions of a drilling slowdown and ran the most rigs since mid-November, boosting the U.S. count by three to 1,575, Baker Hughes Inc. said Dec. 5. Rigs targeting natural gas were unchanged at 344, the Houston-based field services company’s website showed.
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December 03, 2014
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Hardbanding Solutions by Postle Industries has released a new standard operating procedure for the application of Duraband NC hardbanding on completion tubing connections.
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December 03, 2014
HOUSTON -- CAMAC Energy has signed a contract with a subsidiary of Transocean for the provision of the semi-submersible drilling unit Sedco Express for drilling and completion activities offshore Nigeria.
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December 03, 2014
RIO DE JANERIO -- Petrobras has announced the discovery of natural gas accumulation at Orca-1 exploratory well, in Tayrona block, at Colombian Caribbean deepwaters, 40 km off the coast of La Guajira.
