Oil Gas Industry Interviews

ROGTEC Talks to Olga Volkova, Country Manager, Tenaris Russia

Olga Volkova is the Tenaris Country Manager in Russia. Her responsibilities include Tenaris’s operations in the Russian Federation, Byelorussia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan. She has been working with Tenaris for seven years and is based in Moscow. How long have you been doing business in the region? Tenaris has had …

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Calfrac Well Services: To Spend $33m to Support Russian and Other International Operations

Calfrac Well Services Ltd is pleased to announce a 2014 capital budget of approximately $120 million. The capital program is focused on maintenance and support capital and additional investment in logistics equipment.  Approximately $33 million of capital is allocated to support Calfrac’s growing international operations, including further investment in coiled …

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Calfrac: Financial Highlights – Higher Multi Stage Fracturing in Russia

Calfrac‘s Financial Highlights For the three months ended September 30, 2013, the Company recorded: revenue of $388.7 million, a decrease of 7 percent from the third quarter of 2012, driven primarily by lower pricing in the United States and Canada combined with lower fracturing and coiled tubing activity in western …

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Dan Doll, General Director of Trican Well Services, Speaks To ROGTEC Magazine

Dan Doll is the General Director of Trican Well Service in Russia. Mr. Doll joined Trican as Executive Director, Operations in 2011, and is now responsible for Trican’s overall operations in Russia. Mr. Doll is a professional engineer with 20 years experience in the pressure pumping industry. He began his …

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Technology Roundtable: Coiled Tubing

Coiled tubing has become increasingly popular in Russia in recent years. What is the current level of utilization at the moment? Baker Hughes: Current market data estimates a CT unit count of roughly 250 in Russia & the CIS, which is up 24 units from the 2012 count of 226. …

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Schlumberger Introduces New Real-Time Coiled Tubing Pipe Inspection System

CoilScan minimizes nonproductive time by identifying coiled tubing pipe defects Schlumberger announced today the introduction of the CoilScan* real-time coiled tubing (CT) pipe inspection system. The system minimizes nonproductive time (NPT) by providing real-time pipe inspection during intervention operations to identify CT pipe defects prior to entry into the wellbore. …

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Schlumberger Integrates Coiled Tubing with Production Services

ACTive PS Service Increases Efficiency and Enhances Production FLORENCE, Schlumberger today announced at the 2010 SPE Annual Technology Conference and Exhibition the release of ACTive PS* integrated coiled tubing (CT) production service. This new service couples real-time fiber-optic telemetry with existing, advanced wireline production logging tools. ACTive PS optimizes work …

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