Completions
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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.
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December 02, 2014
CALGARY -- NCS Multistage has announced successful deployment of the company's patented Multistage Unlimited frac-isolation system to complete four Montney gas wells in the Pouce Coupe field in British Columbia.
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December 02, 2014
VIENNA, Austria -- OMV has commenced production at the MR-8A well from a previously undrained compartment in the Maari field off the Taranaki coast of New Zealand.
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December 02, 2014
WESTHILL, Aberdeen -- Ennsub has been awarded a contract worth $3.15 million (£2 million) by Benthic to build a newly enhanced and portable Launch and Recovery System (LARS4) to complement the latest addition to its seabed drilling and geotechnical drill fleet.
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December 01, 2014
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire wildcatter Harold Hamm, a founding father of the U.S. shale boom, said U.S. drilling will slow because of lower oil prices. While the chairman and CEO of Continental Resources Inc. sees U.S. activity decreasing, he said a potential price war bodes well for U.S. producers that can outlast many countries that depend on far higher oil.
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December 01, 2014
SINGAPORE -- Marine Contracting has announced the successful move of the Cendor mobile offshore production unit (MOPU) from the Cendor field, offshore Malaysia, to Batam, Indonesia, for upgrade work en route to its eventual destination in the Wassana field in the Gulf of Thailand.
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December 01, 2014
GENEVA, Switzerland (Bloomberg) -- Lubrizol, the chemical-additives business at Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., agreed to buy two units from Weatherford International for at least $750 million after the seller was squeezed by lower oil prices.
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December 01, 2014
LONDON -- African Petroleum has entered into an agreement with the Government of the Republic of The Gambia to reinstate the company’s Alhamdulilah License Block A1 and License Block A4, and settle all prior issues concerning the Gambia licenses including the discontinuation of arbitration proceedings.
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November 30, 2014
STOREBO, Norway -- DOF has been awarded five new platform supply vessel (PSV) contracts by Total, Chevron, CNR International and BP.
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November 28, 2014
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- Gazprom Neft has become the first oil operator in Russia to drill a well with a horizontal borehole of 1,500 m. The well, on the Yamal Peninsula, reached 4,200 m in length. Some 91% of the horizontal section is located in the oil-saturated bed of the Novoportovskoye formation, characterized by high permeability strata, which yield high flow rates without the application of fracing.
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November 27, 2014
SYDNEY -- Drillsearch Energy has made a new wet gas discovery on the Western Cooper Wet Gas Fairway of the Cooper basin.
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November 27, 2014
BRISBANE, Australia -- Linc Energy has detected hydrocarbon shows in the Stuart Range Formation at the Pata 1 exploration well, located in PEL121, in the Arckaringa basin.
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November 26, 2014
HAMILTON, Bermuda (Bloomberg) -- Seadrill Ltd. fell the most in six years after the offshore driller controlled by billionaire John Fredriksen suspended dividends as the slump in oil prices hurts demand for rigs. Hamilton, Bermuda-based Seadrill fell as much as 16%, the most since November 2008, to 118.8 kroner and traded at 118.9 kroner at 9:37 a.m. in Oslo. That’s the lowest level since July 2010.
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November 26, 2014
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Karoon Gas has completed drilling at Kangaroo-2 appraisal well, located in block S-M-1165 in Santos basin, offshore Brazil, at a total depth of 2,369 mRT (meters below rotary table) and encountered multiple oil bearing zones.
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November 25, 2014
VANCOUVER, Canada -- TAG Oil has successfully drilled the Cheal-E-JV-6 (Cheal-E6) well, located in the onshore Taranaki basin of New Zealand, to a total depth of 1,939 m.
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November 24, 2014
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Hess has exercised the four one-well options included in the current contract for the jackup rig Maersk Resolute. Each of the four additional wells has an estimated duration of around 90 days implying an extension of the current contract by about one year.
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November 24, 2014
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Petrobras completed the drilling of the first appraisal well -- 3-BRSA-1255 (3-RJS-731) -- in the Libra Consortium area on Nov. 6. Located in the northwest portion of the Libra block, in the pre-salt layer of the Santos basin, the well is approximately 4 km southeast of discovery well 2-ANP-2A-RJS.
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November 24, 2014
CALGARY, Alberta -- Talisman Energy and Ecopetrol have proven the presence of hydrocarbons in the Nueva Esperanza-1 exploratory well (A2b), located in block CPO-9, Department of Meta, Colombia.
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November 24, 2014
LONDON -- San Leon Energy has spud Rawicz-12 appraisal well on the 742 sq. km Rawicz Concession in Poland’s southern Permian basin.
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November 23, 2014
HOUSTON -- Exxon Mobil has awarded Delta Screens & Filtration a limited international license to Exxon Mobil’s Alternate Path technology patent portfolio for gravel packing cased and openhole completion wells.
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November 21, 2014
STAVANGER, Norway -- Statoil has decided to cancel its Stena Carron rig contract after fulfilling its work commitments in the Statoil-operated blocks 38 and 39 in the Kwanza basin, offshore Angola. The rig contract will cease with effect from Nov. 21, 2014.
