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Handling & Lifting Equipment Designed for the Toughest Offshore Environments & Engineered for Extremes

The range of robust handling and lifting equipment supplied by the J D Neuhaus company is currently in use around the world on Jack-up rigs, Semi-submersibles, Drill ships and FPSO vessels. Their product range incorporates both air and hydraulically powered hoists, with individual lifting capacities ranging from 250kg to 100 …

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Kama Trading House Has Implemented a Project to Automate Its Operations

The “Kama” Trading House (part of the Petrochemical Complex of JSC TATNEFT) developing its own network of sales and service centers, regional logistics centers and warehouses has automated operations. The official dealer of TATNEFT’s petrochemical complex tire products has moved from the wholesale tire products distribution strategy to their massive …

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Uralmashplant will supply equipment for the drilling rig “Arctica”

Uralmashplant signed a contract with Uralmash NGO Holding for supply of drilling equipment units for the rig Uralmash 6000/400 EK-BMCH “Arctica”. Equipment exceeding 800 ton will be manufactured, including guide ways, modules of right- and left-hand frames, derrick, module of mechanized receiving board. The delivery term is November 2013. Drilling …

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The ROGTEC Interview: Andrew Vincenti, Branch Director Kuehne + Nagel Sakhalin

Please describe your position and role within the company I am the Branch Director of Kuehne + Nagel Sakhalin with responsibility for Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Korsakov and Nogliki offices as well as the newly opened Vladivostok office. I have held this position for 11 years. Kuehne+Nagel has been working in Russia for …

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Future Onshore Global Hotspots

David Bamford, Finding Petroleum It is fashionable to identify deepwater – especially in the South Atlantic, unconventionals – especially in North America, and the Arctic – offshore Alaska, Russia, perhaps Greenland – as the ‘hot spots’ in the current global exploration scene. Onshore exploration remains unfashionable or it least so …

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Personal Protective Equipment Market in Russia

Aparna Balasubramanian Research Analyst – Chemicals, Materials and Food, Frost & Sullivan With increasing importance of occupational health and safety across the world, employers of diverse industrial businesses lay huge emphasis on ensuring the safety of employees in workplaces, by providing appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). PPE comprises various types …

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VNIIGAZ: Concepts for Arctic Shelf Field Development

M.N. Mansurov, (Gazprom VNIIGAZ, LLC) The development of oil and gas resources in the Arctic is based on a large amount of research and the use of new technologies that ensures both the efficient exporation and production, decreases capital costs and complies with all relevant safety and environmental norms. Scientific …

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RPI Reports: Kazakhstan – Upstream Market Focus

The oil and gas industry of Kazakhstan has shown an unprecedented pace of growth over the last 10 years. Thus, in 2001-2012 oil production nearly doubled (from 39.3 to 79.2 million tons), while gas production increased by nearly 3.5-fold (from 11.6 to 40.1 bcm). By 2020 the country’s oil production …

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The ROGTEC Interview: Denis Ivanov Nabors Drilling International Limited

When ROGTEC last spoke to you in Issue 29 (May 2012) you mentioned Nabors was looking to increase its drilling fleet. What progress has been made on the expansions? Do you have further expansion plans for Russia? Yes, we started to work with a new client “Slavneft-Krasnoyarskneftegaz” in the Krasnoyarsk …

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Technology Roundtable: MWD, Measurement While Drilling

  How does a MWD system improving drilling efficiencies and formation understanding? Baker Hughes: First of all, let’s go back to industry adopted classification of telemetry systems – MWD (measuring while drilling) and LWD (logging while drilling) systems: MWD systems provide directional survey data (well path), bottom hole temperature, pressure, …

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