Drilling
News
December 23, 2022
The A2H well has been drilled to a total depth of 3,883 m, including a 1,275 m horizontal section within the Amungee Member B Shale in the Beetaloo Sub-Basin, Northern Territory, Australia with Tamboran Pty Limited.
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December 23, 2022
The new merger will be in a strong position to serve a broader range of customers, with one of the youngest and most technologically advanced fleets in the industry, and a combined backlog of $2.8 billion.
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December 23, 2022
Dotz’s technology provides a solution to detect and quantify corrosion inhibitors within oilfield premises, providing on-site dosage management and significant savings on maintenance and corrosion inhibitor overdosing and underdosing costs.
News
December 21, 2022
The Zeus-1 well encountered 105 meters of net gas pay in carbonate reservoirs that re-enforces the area’s promising outlook and development.
News
December 19, 2022
In Oman, three rigs have been extended for a total of seven years of work. Additionally, KCA Deutag’s Kenera business unit will provide a grid container for rig T-899. Elsewhere, the T63 has mobilized to drill two wells, with two more optional wells, for a client in Kurdistan.
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December 16, 2022
The patent-pending invention provides an effective way to display wind direction at a parked truck when hydrogen sulfide gas is being released at an oil or gas drilling location.
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December 15, 2022
TAG Oil has chosen the BED 1-7 vertical well for its first re-completion and evaluation operations in BED-1. The data collected from BED 1-7 and incorporated into the modeling studies will help facilitate plans for drilling the first horizontal ARF well in BED-1.
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December 12, 2022
ADC Energy will provide operational assurance and acceptance services for rig equipment, dynamic positioning, marine and well control, and ROV activity.
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December 12, 2022
With over two-thirds of the Permian’s premium land now drilled, producers are seeking more permits than ever to burrow beneath Midland and its 130,000 residents.
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December 09, 2022
Houston American Energy Corp. announced the acquisition of an additional interest in Hupecol Meta on Dec. 9. The deal will see Houston American Energy gain ownership of Hupecol's acreage in the CPO-11 block located in Colombia's Llanos basin.
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December 08, 2022
Well-integrity specialist company HydraWell has unveiled its new technology, HydraCT, an advanced perforation, wash and cement system specifically designed for coil tubing applications with the potential to cut CO2 emissions by 80% and reduce costs by up to 60%.
News
December 06, 2022
The U.S. raised its forecast for oil production next year, reversing course after five straight months of cuts that stoked concern about a slowdown in output from shale fields.
News
December 02, 2022
Neptune Energy and its license partners on Dec. 2 announced a new discovery at the Calypso exploration well (PL938) in the Norwegian Sea. Preliminary estimates are between 1 to 3.5 million standard cubic meters of recoverable oil equivalents, corresponding to 6 – 22 million barrels of oil equivalent.
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December 01, 2022
Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., Canada’s largest oil and gas producer, is aiming to raise production as high as 1 million barrels a day in 2023 for the first time as the company ramps up drilling amid historically high prices.
Article
November 2022
Politics and regulations, particularly on the federal level, affect so much of the upstream industry’s health and performance, which can lead to a muddled mess in future developments.
Article
November 2022
A mere 400 petroleum engineers are expected to graduate from U.S. universities in 2022, representing an 83% decline from the 2017 peak. The number of incoming students suggest that trend is not likely to change significantly anytime soon. What can the industry to tackle the challenge of attracting and retaining desperately needed technical talent?
News
November 28, 2022
The Biden administration plans to offer hundreds of thousands of acres off the coast of Alaska for new oil and gas drilling next month, a sale mandated in Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act to win the support of holdout West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin.
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November 28, 2022
Perenco UK has signed a contract for a campaign of drilling operations using the Valaris 247 jack-up rig, the company announced on Monday.
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November 27, 2022
Shell Plc is selling its stakes in a group of North Sea oil fields, according to Bloomberg News. The assets include minority stakes in two fields operated by BP Plc and an interest in a discovery field also operated by BP in the waters east of Scotland.
News
November 27, 2022
The Biden administration granted Chevron Corp. a license to resume oil production in Venezuela after US sanctions halted all drilling activities almost three years ago.
Article
October 2022
A new modeling system enabled PDC bit designers to increase cutter efficiency and reduce susceptibility to impact damage by optimizing back rake in the nose and shoulder areas. Engineers used the data to update the bit’s torque and efficiency response, resulting in record-high ROP.
