Technology Roundtable: Drilling Contractors
1. How can you characterize the current state of the Russian drilling market and what is your forecast for 2018? NSH ASIA DRILLING: A number of key factors affect the Russian drilling market today. First of all, Vertically Integrated Oil Companies have established their own oilfield services divisions. Today around …
Drilling Rigs’ Power Supply: Methods to Enhance The Reliability of The Drawworks Drive Power Supply
This article describes the power supply schemes that ‘UK ‘Tatburneft’ Ltd apply to different process equipment configurations. It also shows the commercial power supply schemes for the rigs with controlled and non-controlled main machinery electric drives. The article delivers the methods to enhance the reliability of the drawworks drive power …
Electrical Equipment & Controls for Top Drive Systems
O. V. Nikulin, Lead Power Engineer, Tatburneft Management Company, PhD V. A. Shabanov, Professor, Ufa State Petroleum Technological University, PhD The top drive system (TDS), an oil and gas drilling technology, is becoming very widespread lately. Both imported and domestic drilling rigs are equipped with such a system. Basically, the …
Tatneft: Holds Regular Board Meeting
A regular meeting of the Board of Directors of JSC TATNEFT chaired by Rustam N. Minnikhanov, President of the Republic of Tatarstan, was held in Kazan (Republic of Tatarstan) on October 1, 2013. The Board of Directors meeting reviewed the budget performance of TATNEFT for eight months of 2013 and …