Russia Oil Gas Magazine

Skolkovo Software Package Helped Geosteerers With Drilling Support

Modeling experience was gained at new fields with new geological conditions. The geological support group of TNG-Geonavigatsia LLC (a subsidiary of the geophysical TNG-Group) has mastered a new software package for geomodeling and well drilling support. This is stated in the newspaper “Geophysicist of Tataria” (author – Dmitry SYROKVASHIN, chief …

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Russia Oil Gas Magazine

Halliburton Introduces HalVue® For Wireline Data Visualization

Halliburton Company today introduced the HalVue® service for real-time wireline data visualization to expand current features on the platform. HalVue is a real-time data monitoring application that gives customers a consistent view of data across operations as it comes in from the rig to help maximize asset value. Halliburton recently …

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Russia Upstream Magazine

RPI Reports: Russian MWD/LWD Market Outlook – Light at the End of the Tunnel

The first half of 2021 was marked by a decline in exploration and production drilling figures, which started in 2019, yet continued during this period. The data demonstrated that, compared to the same period in 2020, production drilling decreased by about 6%, and exploration drilling fell by 20%. All of …

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Russia Oil Gas Magazine

NewTech Services: Gazprom Neft Completes Field Run of RSS and Logging Tools

NewTech Services and Gazprom Neft have successfully completed another field run of a new 4 3/4″ push-the-bit Rotary Steerable System (RSS), the Neutrino™ Ultra High-Speed MWD tool, and the MFWPR® Resistivity LWD tool in the Yuzhno-Priobskoe Field. The primary objective of the field trial was the qualification of the RSS …

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Russia Oil Gas Magazine

Weatherford Signs Two Drilling Services Contracts In Russia Valued At $67 Million

Weatherford International plc announced it has signed two contracts totaling $67.4 million for drilling services with two major operators in Russia. The first contract spans two-and-a-half years. Operations began in July 2019 and will last through the end of 2022. Weatherford will provide logging-while-drilling (LWD), measurement-while-drilling (MWD), rotary steerable systems …

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Russia Upstream Magazine

Technical Regulations for Measuring Instrumentation for Logging Operations

Introduction Well construction is a complicated process from an engineering point of view involving a number of tasks relating to a wide range of technologies. In the most cases, each task is performed using a separate tool not related to the others. So a lot of data is used inefficiently …

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Russia Oil Gas Magazine

Weatherford and Nabors: Form USA Advanced Drilling Solutions Alliance

Weatherford International plc and Nabors Industries Ltd. announced today they have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to form an alliance focused on delivering enhanced drilling solutions to the oil and gas land market in the lower 48 states of the United States. The MOU states that Weatherford will …

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Russia Upstream Magazine

MWD & LWD In Russia: Current Status and Development Outlook Through 2025

Significant changes have happened in the drilling industry in the last decade. Every year the operations become more complex and the production and environmental safety requirements become more stringent. That is why the application of measuring-while-drilling (MWD) systems is becoming more important in the oilfield services market – information acquired …

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Russia Oil Gas Magazine

Baker Hughes & Halliburton: HAL – To Divest – Expandable Liner Hangers, BH – To Divest – Core Completions

Today we announced that Halliburton and Baker Hughes will market for sale additional businesses in connection with Halliburton’s pending acquisition of Baker Hughes. On the Halliburton side, we intend to divest our expandable liner hangers business, which falls within the Completion & Production Division. Baker Hughes intends to divest its …

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Russia Oil Gas Magazine

Halliburton: To Sell Off Drill Bits, Directional Drilling and MWD/LWD Business Lines as Part of Baker Hughes Merger

Halliburton Company announced it will separately market for sale the company’s Fixed Cutter and Roller Cone Drill Bits, Directional Drilling and Logging-While-Drilling (LWD)/Measurement-While-Drilling (MWD) businesses. The final sale of these businesses will not be completed until we have reached acceptable terms and conditions negotiated by Halliburton, the approval of Halliburton’s Board …

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