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October 03, 2014
HOUSTON -- Workstrings International, a Superior Energy Services company, has launched the Workstrings Drill Pipe Specifications App. Workstrings has developed the app to provide convenient access to specifications for the most commonly used sizes and connections of drill pipe, landing strings and tubing.
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October 02, 2014
MUSCAT, Oman -- BP Oman has awarded two long-term drilling contracts for the Khazzan project in Block 61. KCA Deutag has been awarded more than $400 million worth of contracts for the construction and operation of five new build land rigs for Khazzan. The rigs are being assembled in Nizwa to help maximize employment opportunities in Oman.
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October 01, 2014
STAVANGER, Norway -- Det norske oljeselskap ASA, operator of production license 553, has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 34/7-36 S. The well, which was drilled about 10 km west of the Visund field in the North Sea, was dry.
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October 01, 2014
JAKARTA, Indonesia (Bloomberg) -- PT Pertamina agreed to buy a 30% stake in Murphy Oil’s oil and natural gas assets in Malaysia for $2 billion in cash. Closing with the Pertamina Malaysia Eksplorasi Produks unit is expected to take place in two phases, with the first completed this year and the second in the first quarter of 2015, El Dorado, Arkansas-based Murphy said in a statement. Murphy, which entered Malaysia in 1999, will remain operator of the developments.
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September 30, 2014
SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates -- Dana Gas and its wholly-owned subsidiary Dana Gas Egypt has been awarded the North El Salhiya (Block 1) and El Matariya (Block 3) onshore Concessions in the Nile Delta as part of the 2014 EGAS bidding round held recently in Egypt.
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September 29, 2014
SYDNEY, Australia -- Roc Oil (China) Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Roc Oil, has finished drilling the first of two exploration wells in the Beibu Gulf Block 22/12. The WZ12-10-1 well has discovered oil pay in the Jiaowei (T42) formation, while no oil pay was interpreted in the Weizhou formation.
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September 27, 2014
GEOJE-SI, South Korea -- Maersk Drilling’s fourth ultra-deepwater drillship was named in a ceremony at the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje-Si, South Korea, on Sept. 25. Lene Berg, wife of Gregers Kudsk, V.P. in Maersk Drilling, had the honor of naming the drillship Maersk Voyager.
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September 26, 2014
ABERDEEN, United Kingdom -- Tendeka has entered an exclusive strategic agreement with Beijing Wallgate Information Technology to deliver digital oilfield capabilities to key operators in China. The agreement will see Tendeka’s intelligent well technology installed in multiple wells over a minimum period of two years.
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September 25, 2014
ABERDEEN – United Kingdom -- EV, a specialist in downhole video technology, has launched its IVC (Integrated Video Caliper) product to the well intervention market, which provides real-time answers to well integrity issues. Following two years of development and extensive field trials in Canada, the technology has been launched globally.
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September 25, 2014
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Petrobras has identified the presence of gas while drilling extension well 3-BRSA-1022-SES (3-SES-181). The well is located in the discovery evaluation plan area of Poço Verde in concession BM-SEAL-4 in the ultra-deep waters of the Sergipe-Alagoas basin.
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September 25, 2014
STOCKHLM, Sweden -- Lundin Petroleum, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Lundin Malaysia, has entered into agreements to acquire a 50% interest in PM328, and operatorship of the block, from Petronas Carigali. The effective date of the transaction is Aug. 31, 2014.
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September 24, 2014
HOUSTON – The oil industry risks hamstringing its own research in its headlong rush to develop new technologies for the push into ever harsher subsurface conditions, World Oil’s ninth annual HPHT Drilling and Completions conference heard.
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September 24, 2014
ABERDEEN, United Kingdom -- Recent estimates suggest that shale gas alone could potentially provide over a third of total UK consumption by 2020, reducing dependency on imported gas up to 27% by 2035.1 Production from US shale reservoirs has increased tenfold since 2007, illustrating the viability of this prolific new source of long-term gas supply and supporting the view that shale gas could play a key role in the future of UK energy.
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September 23, 2014
HOUSTON: “Collaboration is key for 20K psi development,” said Gregory Walz, Sr. Drilling Engineering Advisor for Anadarko Petroleum, during his keynote address at the 9th annual World Oil HPHT Drilling and Completions Conference underway at the Norris Center in West Houston.
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September 23, 2014
LONDON (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire John Fredriksen boosted his stake in rig company Seadrill Ltd. after the stock dropped on a market downturn, a longtime adviser left, and amid uncertainty over a Russian deal. Fredriksen’s Hemen Holding Ltd. bought 2 million shares in the world’s biggest offshore-rig company by market value Sept. 22, boosting its stake to 115.1 million shares, or 23.34% of the total, Seadrill said in a statement.
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September 22, 2014
WEST CHESTER, Pennsylvania – Schramm Inc., a manufacturer of land-based hydraulic drilling rigs, has announced a partnership with FEMCO, an aftermarket parts manufacturer and emergency repair services provider, to support its customers operating in North Dakota, South Dakota and Texas.
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September 22, 2014
COSTA MESA, California-- ProOne has commercialized downhole drilling technology exclusively distributed by NOV’s new spin-off, DistributionNOW (DNOW), and successfully deployed in hundreds of wells throughout North America. Operators have utilized this lubrication technology to solve wide-ranging issues, including an array of frequently encountered drilling problems, which saves substantial time and money.
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September 22, 2014
ABERDEEN, United Kingdom -- Churchill Drilling Tools is celebrating the 500th deployment of its DAV MX CircSub. The company, which is located in Houston and Aberdeen in the UK, has forged a sound reputation in the Gulf of Mexico, where its dart activation technology has been recognized for its versatility, capability and reliability in challenging environments.
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September 19, 2014
IRVING, Texas (Bloomberg) -- Exxon Mobil Corp. said the U.S. government is giving the company more time to shut its Russian Arctic well beyond the deadline for sanctions aimed at halting the $700 million project. Exxon asked Washington for an extension to allow it to continue performing shut-down work on the Universitetskaya-1 (University-1) well in Russia’s Kara Sea to make sure the well was safe before it’s temporarily abandoned. The Irving, Texas- based company already had ceased drilling the offshore well after U.S. sanctions set a Sept. 26 deadline for ending the work.
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September 19, 2014
IRVING, Texas (Bloomberg) -- Exxon Mobil Corp. and OAO Rosneft halted drilling on an offshore oil well intended as the first step in unlocking billions of barrels of crude in Russia’s remote Arctic, according to people familiar with the project. Work stopped just a few days after the U.S. and European Union barred companies from helping Russia exploit Arctic, deepwater or shale-oil fields, said three people with knowledge of the rig’s operations who asked not to be named since they weren’t authorized to speak about the project.
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September 18, 2014
NAIROBI, Kenya (Bloomberg) -- Kenya expects its estimate of oil resources to almost double to 1 Bbbl as well-drilling climbs and the government forges ahead with plans to build an export pipeline, an energy ministry official said.
