ExxonMobil awarded Ocean Installer its first call-off contract for subsea well tie-back, engineering, IRM (inspection, maintenance and repair), ROV and associated services at the Balder field. The Normand Mermaid…
Statoil awarded Cubility a US multi million dollar deal to provide the MudCube solution for installation on the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea. The MudCube. From Cubility. The MudCube…
Enteq Upstream introduced the new Twin Electro-Magnetic Telemetry Systemfor high-speed electromagnetic (EM) MWD telemetry, as an alternative or supplement to mud pulse telemetry to transmit drilling data. The system enables the use of mud pulse and EM telemetry concurrently…
Italian ship designer and builder Fincantieri will today (26 March) outline its new drillship design, Proxima. Proxima is a new ultra deepwater drillship capable of drilling to 50,000ft total depth in water depth down to 12,000ft. The…
Sperry Drilling, a Halliburton (HAL) business line, has introduced a 4-3/4 inch slimhole size to its XBAT LWD service. HAL’s portfolio now includes 4-3/4, 6-3/4, 8 and 9-1/2 inch tools, which allows the XBAT tool to service wellbore holes ranging from 5-3/4 to 36 inches…
James Onifade discusses how the first managed pressure drilling operation for an African operator accurately detected and circulated a small influx out of the well, without having to shut it in or threatening the safety of the rig crew. The…
Deepwater is a big play for Chevron – one which comes with challenges that the super major is working hard to overcome. Transocean’s drillship Discoverer Deep Seas, which drilled at Chevron’s Tahiti prospect…
Bourbon’s Rodolphe Bouchet explains how the company’s new Explorer 500 series shows its commitment to standardization, which offers time and cost savings. The PSV Bourbon Explorer 504 at sea. Photos from Bourbon…
Weatherford discusses how a collaborative approach helped in the planning and execution of a North Sea drilling with liner operation. Fig. 1: Pore, frac, overburden and mud-pressures in the well…
Blue Ocean Drilling Ltd. (BOD) awarded China’s Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS) a contract to build two Gusto MSC CJ50 high specification jackup rigs. Image from Blue Ocean Drilling. Upon the terms of agreement…
Chevron and Statoil are launching new solutions to a growing challenge in the Gulf. Bruce Nichols reports. The GE (Hydril) MaxLift pump aboard the Pacific Santa Ana drillship. Photos: Pacific Drilling…
Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority to use the COSLInnovator mobile drilling facility for production drilling on the Troll field using the controlled mud level method. The consent covers the use of COSLInnovator for production drilling on 8½in…
Shell has started work drilling production wells on Malaysia's third deepwater development, the Malikai field, offshore Malaysia. The Malikai development involves 17 wells drilled from a 23,500 tonne tension leg platform production facility…
IKM Group will provide a riser-less top-hole mud circulation system to Shell on the Malikai project offshore Sabah, Malaysia. IKM says the contract award is an important milestone for its MRR technology (mud recovery without riser) and…
As the industry advances into ultra-deepwater, an increasing number of tight tolerance wells require an efficient system for determining early influxes or losses during drilling, tripping, and cementing operations. Scott Hilliard of Statoil and Florian Le Blay…
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