Drilling
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March 14, 2017
The Trump administration’s plan to slash corporate tax rates could free up more than $10 billion a year for U.S. oil explorers.
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March 13, 2017
Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 159 B, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 6507/3-12 and appraisal well 6507/3-12 A. The wells proved gas.
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March 07, 2017
LUKOIL has completed drilling the fourth well at Filanovsky field in the Caspian Sea. The length of the horizontal section is 1,194 m for the main bore and 1,366 m for the lateral.
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March 07, 2017
Cairn is pleased to announce the results of the SNE-5 appraisal well offshore Senegal, where operations have been safely and successfully completed ahead of schedule and under budget, following drilling, logging, drill stem testing and the setting of pressure gauges.
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March 06, 2017
Designed and engineered to make its original downhole lubricant even more effective for operators, ProOne scientists introduced Diamond Dust two-in-one drill fluid additive as the company’s second major technological breakthrough, which began with XPL+ eight years ago.
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March 06, 2017
The appraisal well 16/1-27 in PL338 on the Edvard Grieg field is being drilled on the southwestern flank of the field by the semisubmersible drilling rig Island Innovator.
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March 03, 2017
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has given Aker BP consent to drill an exploration well with the designation 24/9-11S on the field. The consent also covers a potential sidetrack. The object of the drilling is to investigate the potential of a formation 7.5 km west of the subsea facility at Volund.
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March 03, 2017
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has given Repsol consent to drill exploration well 6705/7-1 in a prospect named Stordal.
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March 01, 2017
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 6507/3-12 A, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations.
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February 28, 2017
Superior Drilling Products, Inc., a designer and manufacturer of drilling tool technologies, announced today that it has been awarded a critical patent that addresses the unique characteristics and capabilities of its Strider technology that is a key component of the Company’s Coiled Tubing Strider (CTS) and Open Hole Strider tools for the oil & gas industry.
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February 27, 2017
Oil traded near $54/bbl after the U.S. boosted drilling rigs to the most since October 2015, keeping prices in a tight range amid speculation the country’s output may rise and counteract OPEC production cuts.
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February 27, 2017
Well Control School (WCS) is announcing an alliance with Drilbert Engineering to provide advanced technical drilling operational training for the oil and gas industry.
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February 23, 2017
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Repsol Norge AS a drilling permit for well 6705/7-1, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations.
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February 21, 2017
Gazpromneft-Sakhalin, a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft, has signed a contract with Hakuryu 5, Inc. (a 100%-owned subsidiary of Japan Drilling Co., Ltd., Japan) regarding the leasing of a drilling rig for construction of a prospecting and appraisal well at the Ayashsky licence block, located on the continental shelf of the Sea of Okhotsk.
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February 17, 2017
U.S. drillers pushed ahead on the biggest surge in oil drilling since 2012 as companies take advantage of oil prices that have held steady above $50 for almost three months.
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February 15, 2017
Explorers look set to drill a record number of wells in Norway’s Arctic waters this year, undeterred by oil prices apparently stuck below $60/bbl.
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February 13, 2017
Weatherford International plc announced today that its Secure Drilling Services facility in Aberdeen, Scotland, received API Specification Q2 certification — making it the first API Q2-certified facility in the United Kingdom.
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February 10, 2017
Exxon Mobil has awarded to Pason Systems, Inc. the first global license of its patented Drilling Advisory System, a key component of the company’s Fast Drill technology suite.
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February 09, 2017
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 16/1-27, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations.
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February 07, 2017
While oil drillers in U.S. shale basins are starting to see business come back, their offshore brethren will have to wait for prices to surge well above $60/bbl.
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February 02, 2017
Nabors Industries Ltd. and Weatherford International plc have announced that they have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to form an alliance focused on delivering enhanced drilling solutions to the oil and gas land market in the lower 48 states of the U.S.
