New Order for Drillmec in the Land of Fire
Last April, Drillmec signed a contract with SOCAR-AQS for the supply of an automatic hydraulic model HH300 off-shore. SOCAR-AQS LLC was established in 2007 between State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (51%) and Absheron Drilling Company (49%). SOCAR-AQS LLC is a fast growing, integrated drilling and services provider that is …
LQT Industries: Provides Subarctic Aluminum Accommodations Facility For Sakhalin
LQT Industries, LLC, a full-service provider of high quality accommodation facilities, electrical buildings, design-build construction services, and support services to the oil and gas industry, has built and commissioned a subarctic aluminum accommodations facility to be used by a global energy company on a drilling platform off the coast of …
Hardbanding Solutions: New Gauge Measures Hardband Thickness “At A Glance”
Producers, drilling contractors and rental companies periodically experience marginally acceptable hardbanding applications. But now there is a simple, but effective, new tool to ensure that their hardband applicators are properly applying hardbanding alloys such as Duraband® NC or Tuffband® NC. The new Hardbanding Gauge & Rule, just introduced by Hardbanding …
SLC-Group Delivered New Directional Well for Rosneft on Olkhovskoe Oilfield
New directional well # 2514 was drilled on Olkhovskoe oilfield for ROSNEFT oil company with the using of the top drive system DQ50B, which was set on the drilling rig ZJ-50 DB. The well length was 3741 m. Performance of the top drive had the following maximum values: rotation speed …
SkyWave Adds New Eclipse-Based Tool to Application Development Environment
Familiar software brand will make it easier and reduce time to bring unique M2M solutions to market SkyWave Mobile Communications, a global provider of wireless data communications for the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) market, today announced that their software toolkit now includes an Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for creating applications that …
Emerson Launches Enhancements to Reservoir Engineering Software Suite
Roxar Tempest™ 7.1 comes with improved uncertainty management & reservoir prediction capabilities leading to better economic and field development decision-making Emerson Process Management has launched Roxar Tempest™ 7.1, the latest version of its integrated reservoir engineering software suite. The new software comes with major enhancements to its uncertainty management and …
Schlumberger: Launches Petrel, Techlog, Studio and Ocean 2014 Software Platforms
Schlumberger has announced the release of the 2014 versions of its industry leading software platforms. The Petrel* E&P software platform, Techlog* wellbore software platform, Studio* E&P knowledge environment and Ocean* software development framework enhance multidisciplinary integration, collaboration and productivity. “E&P investment decisions are increasingly driven by digital models that enable …
Weatherford Awarded Statoil Tubular Running Services Contract
Weatherford International plc announced today it has been awarded an exclusive contract with Statoil Petroleum AS valued at $400 million for the delivery of Tubular Running Services on 19 drilling units in Statoil’s portfolio. This contract has a base period of six years with the option of two consecutive two-year …
Hardbanding Solutions: Quality and Cost Considerations For Applying Hardbanding On New Drill Pipe Vs Re-Application
Hardbanding drill pipe with trusted hardbands, such as Duraband® NC or Tuffband® NC from Hardbanding Solutions by Postle, has been shown to decrease drilling costs and downtime while increasing profitability and productivity. But is there a difference between hardband applications on new drill pipe and reapplication over existing hardbanding? Whenever …