Drilling
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December 20, 2021
ADNOC Drilling Company and Helmerich & Payne, Inc. jointly announced the finalization of the Rig Enablement Framework Agreement, streamlining ADNOC Drilling’s operations, reducing costs and building shareholder value.
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December 20, 2021
Cognite announced a collaboration with Equinor to expand data capabilities and support the company’s digital ambitions.
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December 17, 2021
European supermajors TotalEnergies SE and Royal Dutch Shell Plc will join Brazil’s state-controlled oil giant at two key fields, marking the latest expansion in Latin America’s largest crude producer and an important victory for President Jair Bolsonaro.
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December 17, 2021
Maersk Drilling extended a drilling agreement with Aker BP ASA in a $1 billion five-year contract, securing a major revenue source.
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December 06, 2021
Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited has signed a contract with Angola’s Agency for Oil, Gas and Biofuels aimed at extending the exploration and production of Block 0, in Cabinda, for another 20 years.
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December 02, 2021
Turkey threatened to block any unauthorized search for gas and oil in its economic exclusive zone in the eastern Mediterranean after Cyprus awarded hydrocarbon exploration and drilling rights in its offshore block 5 to a venture of Exxon Mobil and Qatar Petroleum.
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December 01, 2021
The second Wells Insight report, published by the UK Oil and Gas Authority, highlights significant opportunities remaining in the UK North Sea basin, despite Covid resulting in a slowdown in 2020.
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November 26, 2021
Nordic oil producer Lundin Energy AB is exploring a potential sale that could rank as one of the largest European oil and gas deals in years, people with knowledge of the matter said.
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November 24, 2021
Neptune Energy Group Ltd.’s owners are weighing plans to sell the UK oil and gas explorer, according to people familiar with the matter.
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November 23, 2021
The pace of oil and gas drilling in Canada next year will exceed levels seen before the pandemic as producers ride the global energy rally, an industry group said.
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November 22, 2021
Neptune Energy has extended a contract for Odfjell Drilling’s Deepsea Yantai drilling rig, to include three additional wells in the Norwegian North Sea next year.
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November 19, 2021
Baker Hughes has been awarded two contracts from ADNOC this week for equipment and services across multiple upstream fields and projects in the United Arab Emirates.
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November 18, 2021
Exxon Mobil Corp. submitted bids for 94 drilling leases in shallow waters near the Texas coastline, an apparent step forward for a giant proposed carbon-capture project close to Houston’s industrial corridor.
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November 17, 2021
Oil companies spent $191.7 million buying drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, during a robust government auction that underscored the industry’s appetite for new crude as the White House seeks to shift the U.S. away from fossil fuels.
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November 17, 2021
The Biden administration is selling drilling rights across the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday in an auction that will test the oil industry’s appetite amid White House efforts to shift away from fossil fuels.
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November 10, 2021
Noble and Maersk Drilling share a strong conviction about the compelling industrial logic for taking this step to create a differentiated offshore drilling company with the scale, capabilities, and resources to successfully serve a broad range of customers.
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November 08, 2021
Global drilling, engineering and technology provider KCA Deutag has been awarded contracts worth almost $185m from leading exploration and production companies across key markets in the Middle East region.
Webcast
Drilling Automation 4.0: From remote systems to reservoir navigation
December 09, 2021
Drilling automation, Oil and Gas Industry, Automated Reservoir Navigation
Drilling automation is revolutionizing the way our industry approaches well construction. In this webcast, subject-matter experts will discuss current expectations within the oil and gas industry for these digital systems and solutions. They will examine some of the ongoing applications of this technology and what to expect moving forward. This discussion will also include an exclusive look at results from the first-ever application of automated reservoir navigation.
Following the presentation, the speakers will answer your questions regarding the current state of drilling automation and its potential to transform our industry.
Webcast
Drilling Innovations & Technology Forum: Fall 2021
November 10, 2021
Schlumberger, PatSnap
Advances in drilling technology increasingly require collaboration by traditional drilling players with partners outside the core of the oil & gas industry. Identifying who can provide the missing innovation pieces – whether it is a technology company to develop software for an advanced exploration system, or an academic researcher with expertise in an obscure chemical discipline – is a critical step for innovation in drilling.
Join PatSnap to learn how connected innovation intelligence tools and techniques can be used to empower the drilling industry to discover and collaborate with the best possible partners.
Webcast
Insights to Optimize Geosteering
October 12, 2021
Schlumberger
Join Schlumberger’s Vera Wibowo and Jean-Michel Denichou as they discuss the latest advancement in geosteering services with the PeriScope Edge, a recently introduced deep resistive LWD technology. The pair discuss how geosteering has become a fundamental part of modern field development, where simple geometric target drilling could result in far less than optimal recovery and increased non-productive time.
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October 13, 2021
Halliburton Company released the iStar Intelligent Drilling and Logging Platform, a comprehensive measurement platform comprising multiple services for greater control of drilling and logging operations.