Drilling
News
March 24, 2021
Preliminary estimates place the size of the discovery in the Fram prospects between 12 and 19 million standard cubic meters of recoverable oil equivalent, corresponding to 75-120 million barrels of recoverable oil equivalent.
News
March 23, 2021
The Enhanced Kick Detection system eliminates the external effects of rig and slip-joint motion, to give a highly accurate return volume flow measurement enabling rapid detection of flow anomalies, resulting in reduced time spent on flow-checking.
News
March 22, 2021
Baker Hughes has reached a significant technology milestone in pioneering a solution to overcome flexible pipe stress corrosion cracking (SCC) tendencies in high CO2 content fields, such as those found in Brazil’s pre-salt offshore developments.
News
March 12, 2021
Britain is considering options that include ending permits in 2040, and an immediate temporary pause in licensing, the UK newspaper Telegraph reported.
News
March 02, 2021
Baker Hughes and Akastor ASA have announced an agreement to create a joint venture company that will bring together Baker Hughes’ Subsea Drilling Systems business with Akastor’s wholly owned subsidiary, MHWirth AS.
News
March 01, 2021
The Neptune-operated Dugong discovery, in Production License 882, was one of the largest discoveries on the Norwegian Continental Shelf in 2020. Neptune estimates recoverable resources to be between 40 - 120 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe).
News
February 04, 2021
Maersk Drilling has received a conditional letter of award from Tullow Ghana Ltd. for the provision of the ultra-deepwater drillship Maersk Venturer and additional services for a development drilling campaign at the TEN and Jubilee fields offshore Ghana.
News
January 28, 2021
Neptune Energy and its joint venture partners bp and JAPEX, announced drilling has commenced on the Seagull project in the UK Central North Sea.
News
January 22, 2021
Schlumberger posted better-than-expected earnings Friday and forecast an increase in overseas spending by customers in the next quarter. Earlier in the week, Halliburton said oil markets outside North America may see double-digit growth in the second half of 2021, while Baker Hughes predicted a modest recovery in Latin America, the North Sea and the Middle East.
News
January 18, 2021
The total value of the firm contracts is approximately USD $100MM, including rig modifications, integrated services provided, and a mobilization fee for Maersk Valiant. The contracts include various extension options.
News
January 13, 2021
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract from Spirit Energy for the harsh-environment jack-up rig Maersk Resolve to drill one development well at Grove North East in the UK North Sea.
News
January 13, 2021
Following successful six-month operational trials on Stena Spey and Stena Carron rigs, IDS will deploy its data driven TourNet Pro drilling contractor reporting service and drilling performance monitoring service, Anova DPM, across Stena Drilling’s fleet in Q1 2021.
News
January 12, 2021
The expandable drilling liner enabled the operator to kick-off much deeper in the well, eliminating the need to drill a section of the wellbore and install a tie back. The system was fully expanded within six hours and the entire project was completed in less than 40 hours.
News
January 11, 2021
The agreement will see Toolserv AS exclusively managing supply, sales and rental of Paradigm Drilling products and services in the country with the outlook to expand to other countries as business and demand grows.
News
December 22, 2020
Equinor and its license partners have decided to invest NOK 3 billion in the North Sea Statfjord Øst field to improve recovery by 23 million barrels of oil equivalent.
News
December 21, 2020
Weir Oil & Gas Dubai signed a five-year $70 million contract with Thailand's PTT Exploration and Production, a subsidiary of state-owned energy conglomerate PTT, to supply and install 1,800 sets of wellheads and trees in the Gulf of Thailand.
News
December 16, 2020
The new contract covers hook-up on the field and other hook-up and completion tasks that must be carried out after the platform has been installed to prepare it for operation.
News
December 10, 2020
The proposal under development is set to outline potential sales of long-plumbed territory in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as waters around Alaska and near Southern California, where exploratory oil drilling was last conducted decades ago. Atlantic waters near the coasts of Maryland and Delaware are also included in the proposed sale program.
News
December 03, 2020
"The funding will help maintain the project in warm suspension during 2021 and hopefully position it for a full restart in 2022 and the path to first oil," Newfoundland and Labrador Oil and Gas Industries Association CEO Charlene Johnson said in a statement.
Webcast
Drilling Innovations & Technology Forum: Fall 2020
October 14, 2020
Schlumberger, Volant, Actenum
During this 60-minute live webcast, we will discuss the following topics: 1) “Allegro Casing and Liner While Drilling Services”, with presenter, Hesham Darwish, Drilling Tools Business Development Manager, Schlumberger. 2) “Reducing Costs, Improving Efficiency and Eliminating Invisible Lost Time in the Tubular Running Process”, with presenter, Brad Kwasnycia, Director, Sales and Marketing, Volant. 3) “Clearing Up the DUCs: Evaluating Schedule Scenarios for Intensive Completion Activity”, with presenter, Owen Plowman, Vice President, Actenum Corporation.
Webcast
Drilling Innovations & Technology Forum: Summer 2020
June 24, 2020
Schlumberger, Enventure
During this 60-minute live webcast, we will discuss the following topics: 1) “Blade Family – 3DC Cutter Technology”, with presenter, Wiley Long, Product Champion, Schlumberger. 2) “The Same Drift Monodiameter Clad/Liner System in Solving Drilling and Well Infrastructure Challenges”, with presenter, Matthew Godfrey, Lead Project Engineer, Enventure Global Technology.
