Completions
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August 2017
Amid increasing political uncertainty and a stagnant unemployment rate, Canadian operators are still fighting to regain E&P stability and drive pipeline projects forward.
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August 2017
Conventional tubular technology has imposed performance limitations and financial strain on horizontal well interventions. Premature upset wear, extensive redress charges and moderate torsional ratings are of increasing concern.
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August 2017
Ultra-HPHT wells are challenging the limits of tubular performance, in terms of metallurgy and threaded connections. But higher pressures and temperatures are only part of the challenge. Carbon steel, hot-rolled chromium-based stainless steel, and cold-hardened materials are all options that must be considered to optimize economics in ultra-HPHT applications.
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August 2017
To continue our disquisition about replacing water in hydraulic fracturing operations, let’s look at a couple of long shots in that race.
Article
August 2017
Schlumberger has introduced the Pulsar multi-function spectroscopy service at the SPWLA 58th Annual Symposium.
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August 08, 2017
Baker Hughes announced an it has signed an agreement with Twinza Oil to provide support on the Pasca A gas condensate field, offshore Papua New Guinea in the Gulf of Papua.
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August 01, 2017
Packers Plus Energy Services Inc. has announced recent success with an operator in the Permian basin using TREX Cemented Completions Solutions, a suite of new, high-quality technologies designed to optimize cemented well completions for customers worldwide.
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July 28, 2017
RN-Yuganskneftegaz, Rosneft’s largest oil-producing enterprise, has set a new record for crude and condensate daily output since 1986 - 184,549 tons per day.
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July 25, 2017
CARBO Ceramics Inc. has announced that Kryptosphere HD has been utilized by all super major E&Ps operating in the Gulf of Mexico, for deep, high stress wells.
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July 24, 2017
Reveal Energy Services announced today the commercialization of IMAGE Frac 2.0 pressure-based fracture maps that validate completion designs on every well with minimum operational risk and cost.
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July 21, 2017
Wavefront Technology Solutions Inc., a global supplier of fluid injection technology for oil and gas well stimulation and Improved/Enhanced oil (IOR/EOR) recovery has announced that the Company, through its local distributor, has been issued a campaign of 15 well stimulations in Kuwait.
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July 13, 2017
Trendsetter Engineering has successfully completed live well operations with the new 15,000-psi subsea hydraulic intervention system (STIM). The STIM system, which had previously been utilized for subsea hydrate remediation work, has now completed seven subsea projects in the GOM since November 2016, in water depths ranging from 2,500 ft to 7,200 ft.
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July 12, 2017
Talos Energy announced that the Zama-1 exploration well, offshore Mexico, has discovered oil.
Article
July 2017
The answer is always changing. What works today probably won’t be the solution tomorrow. In addressing the current demands of the offshore industry, the biggest single challenge may be staying relevant.
Article
July 2017
Last time we talked, the subject was high-energy gas fracturing, a method that offers the alluring possibility of eliminating the use of water, the sourcing and disposal of which—as proliferating offers of solutions indicate—is a major headache in hydraulic fracturing.
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July 05, 2017
Oilfield services provider Halliburton Co. said on Wednesday that it would buy oilfield equipment supplier Summit ESP, Inc., which is backed by Oklahoma energy and banking billionaire George Kaiser.
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June 30, 2017
Nigeria’s state-owned oil company said it signed a deal with Schlumberger to provide $700 million for the development of two oil fields in the country’s crude-rich south.
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June 27, 2017
GE Oil & Gas has signed an agreement to collaborate with Eni East Africa, on the offshore Mozambique developments it operates.
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June 21, 2017
Nine Energy Service, Inc., and MorphPackers Limited announced jointly that they have entered into an agreement, whereby Nine will be the exclusive provider of MorphPackers’ STORM and CENTURION completion product line for the re-frac market in the United States and Canada.
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June 19, 2017
Aker BP ASA, operator of production licence 150 B, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 24/9-11 S.
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June 19, 2017
Aquaterra Energy, a leading global offshore engineering solutions provider, has won a major contract to supply subsea high pressure riser (HPR) equipment and services for a subsea abandonment project in the central North Sea.
