Drilling
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May 01, 2019
eDrilling has announced that it has signed a contract with Gazpromneft-Yamal, a Gazprom Neft subsidiary, for the use of eDrilling’s software to optimize its drilling operations in the Tyumen region.
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April 30, 2019
Saudi Arabia’s Industrialization and Energy Services Company (TAQA) announced Sunday that its drilling subsidiary, Arabian Drilling Company (ADC), has agreed to acquire Schlumberger’s Middle East onshore drilling rigs business in Kuwait, Oman, Iraq and Pakistan for $415 million (SR1.56 billion).
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April 28, 2019
A Saudi Arabian oilfield services company backed by the country’s sovereign wealth fund kicked off a planned $1.2 billion in acquisitions by buying Texas-based Schlumberger Ltd.’s Middle Eastern drilling-rig business.
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April 28, 2019
Oil explorers idled rigs in the U.S. for a second consecutive week as operators shifted focus from production growth to cash flow.
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April 11, 2019
A major UAE operator has recovered from stuck pipe by severing its drill string in just 2.5 hr, reports Churchill Drilling Tools, a global oilfield service company specializing in drilling innovation.
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April 08, 2019
Scott Hodges, a 57-year-old manager with Occidental Petroleum Corp., runs a cluster of installations at the Hobbs oil field, where dozens of wells don’t pump a single barrel of oil but instead do the opposite: push stuff -- lots of it -- into the ground.
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April 04, 2019
Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE) has opened a manufacturing and technology center in Oklahoma City dedicated to advancing the performance, quality and reliability of downhole drilling motors.
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April 01, 2019
Saipem SpA is in discussions to sell its offshore and onshore drilling units in separate transactions that would slice off about a 10th of the company’s annual sales.
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March 31, 2019
The decline pushed overall U.S. production lower by 90,000 bopd, marking the first national drop since May, according to revised data from the Energy Information Administration. January production clocked in at 11.87 MMbopd.
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March 31, 2019
ADNOC Drilling, an Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) subsidiary, has announced the completion of its first fully ‘integrated drilling services’ well in the Al Dabbyia onshore field, in the Al Dhafra Region of the Abu Dhabi emirate.
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March 28, 2019
Stress Engineering Services, Inc., (SES) the consulting engineering services company, has received an OTC Spotlight on New Technology (SONT) Award for its condition based maintenance (CBM) of drilling riser systems.
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March 26, 2019
Lukoil and INPEX Corporation have successfully completed testing of the fifth well as part of the appraisal phase at the Eridu field (Block 10) in the southern part of Iraq.
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March 26, 2019
Leading controls technology company Proserv and C-Automation, a manufacturing and field services provider specializing in pressure control systems, have announced the sale of Proserv’s worldwide drilling services business, which was formerly known as TIC, to C-Automation Inc.
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March 21, 2019
A top Interior Department official told oil industry leaders the Trump administration is seeking to sign contracts leasing new coastal waters for oil drilling under favorable terms that will be difficult for future presidents to revoke or rewrite.
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March 20, 2019
The Trump administration’s pro-drilling policy took a blow when a federal judge ordered a halt to oil and gas exploration on more than 300,000 acres in Wyoming, saying the government must account for its cumulative effect on global climate change.
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March 20, 2019
Greenland Gas & Oil Limited (‘GGO’ or the ‘Company’) is pleased to confirm the award of a new license and extension of existing licenses, as well as provide details of upcoming operational activities on its Jameson Land acreage located onshore south-east Greenland.
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March 17, 2019
Simmons Edeco, supplier of onshore drilling and workover services to the global oil and gas industry, announced that it has opened its second operations base in Mexico.
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March 15, 2019
Permian shale oil explorer Legacy Reserves Inc. lost more than half its market value after announcing plans to explore “strategic alternatives” including selling all or part of the company.
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March 13, 2019
The U.S. government cut its oil production forecast for the first time in six months as drillers scale back in smaller shale plays and the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
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March 07, 2019
Drillers are moving ahead in a corner of Canada’s oil sands that saw a flurry of land grabs in recent years, unfazed by a glut of crude that depressed prices last year and the mandatory production cuts that followed.
