Drilling
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May 10, 2019
Crude explorers deployed fewer rigs in U.S. fields this week amid an escalating U.S.-China trade war that weighed on oil prices.
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May 09, 2019
Wild Well Control, a Superior Energy Services company and the global leader in well control, engineering and training services, has launched a new online well control e-learning course, Introduction to Drilling Operations.
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May 07, 2019
Halliburton Company has released Flex Managed Pressure Drilling System (MPD), a scalable and mobile technology that can be configured to address specific operator challenges and deliver greater rig efficiency.
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May 06, 2019
Schlumberger has introduced the IriSphere look-ahead-while-drilling service at the Offshore Technology Conference.
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May 06, 2019
Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE), announced the introduction of its DELTA-TEQ low-pressure-impact drilling fluid, a non-aqueous formulation that enables operators working in narrow pressure windows to meet their drilling objectives by significantly reducing the risks associated with this activity.
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May 02, 2019
The Petroleum Services Association of Canada (PSAC) in its Midyear Update to the 2019 Canadian Oilfield Services Activity Forecast lowered, for a second time, its forecast for the number of wells drilled (rig released) in 2019 across Canada to 5,300 wells – a drop of 1,300 or 20% from the original forecast of 6,600 in November 2018.
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May 01, 2019
QMax receives a "best and brightest companies to work for in the nation" award
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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.
