Completions
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March 22, 2016
Investors of Aberdeen-based well intervention specialist READ Cased Hole welcome continued growth of their portfolio company as it takes its latest logging technology, ZeroTime to launch at the SPE ICoTA Coiled Tubing and Well Intervention Conference & Exhibition in Houston.
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March 22, 2016
Halliburton’s Production Solutions business line has introduced Spectrum Real-Time Coiled Tubing Services. This suite of services is designed to deliver more accurate, more complete downhole measurements and exceptional reliability.
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March 15, 2016
XACT Downhole Telemetry Inc., with offices in Houston and Calgary, ended a landmark year that included six deepwater Gulf of Mexico deployments, delivering an industry first, by providing real-time downhole data during a deepwater completion installation with BP.
Article
March 2016
Process improves reservoir recovery without the expense of running open-hole logs.
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March 14, 2016
The Railroad Commission of Texas (Commission) issued a total of 573 original drilling permits in February 2016, compared to 924 in February 2015.
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March 11, 2016
Technology company Tracerco, part of the FTSE 100 Johnson Matthey Plc, has been helping customers to achieve savings of as much as 20% in reservoir stimulation costs through their smart tracer technology.
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March 09, 2016
Seatronics, an Acteon company, and Norwegian associates RTS, have achieved 100 successful global installations with the Subsea Deflection Monitoring system (SDM).
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March 08, 2016
PropTester, Inc. and KELRIK LLC have announced the release of the 2015 Proppant Market Report. The report provides a detailed overview of the global proppant market in relation to prior years.
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March 06, 2016
The International Well Control Forum has launched a global online training course, which will be free to everyone in the industry to increase knowledge around what can cause a well blowout and potential oil spill incident.
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March 04, 2016
U.S. drillers pulled eight oil-directed rigs from the field this week as the total rig count dropped 500 for the first time since April 1999. The rig count has now fallen for 11 straight weeks.
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February 25, 2016
Hydratight has invented yet another viable alternative to welding, which was officially launched at the Australasian Oil and Gas Exhibition and Conference (AOG) on Thursday, Feb. 25.
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February 17, 2016
Total E&P Congo has selected the Welltec Annular Barrier (WAB) as a completion component for the upcoming wells in the company’s deepwater Moho Nord project.
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February 12, 2016
HOUSTON – U.S. drillers pulled 28 oil-directed rigs from the field this week, according to the latest data from Baker Hughes.
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February 12, 2016
Railroad Commissioner Christi Craddick pointed to the positive impact Texas and U.S. oil producers will see as open crude oil markets increase demand for lighter, sweeter U.S. shale oil in keynote remarks at the North American Prospect Expo’s (NAPE) Global Business Conference in Houston earlier this week.
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February 10, 2016
SPD Ltd., part of the Petrofac Group, has secured a contract from Zennor Petroleum to provide well design and well construction management services, to support the Finlaggan appraisal well, which is in the Central Sector of the North Sea.
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February 02, 2016
Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. has cut its 2016 capital budget to $325 million, a 47% reduction from the company’s $615-million preliminary budget for the year.
News
January 30, 2016
Makai has released version 6.0 of MakaiPlan Pro, which is a popular software for planning and simulating subsea power and telecom cable installations.
News
January 20, 2016
Aquatic Engineering & Construction Ltd, an Acteon company, is working with DNV GL and other organizations in the subsea supply chain, on a JIP to develop a set of guidelines to be incorporated into new or existing DNV GL offshore standards or recommended practices.
Article
January 2016
The petroleum industry’s growing need for gas-tight connections is being driven by complex wells requiring high-pressure completions and fracturing jobs, or managed pressure/underbalanced drilling operations.
Article
January 2016
An appraisal well in India’s KG Onshore Block—a JV between Cairn India Ltd. and ONGC—afforded key engineering and operational learning opportunities.
