Drilling
Co-owner Chevron confirmed the find at the Bandit prospect offshore Louisiana and suggested it may become a subsea tieback to existing faciltiies operated by Occidental Petroleum.
The Orange Basin and Gulf of Guinea will see most of the high-impact drilling activity planned this year in Africa.
ExxonMobil will retain its equity stakes in ongoing Bass Strait projects even as it hands off its operatorship responsibilities to Woodside Energy.
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An automated detection application helped identify stringers early for an operator of a mature field in the North Sea while drilling multilateral wells through reservoir sections containing hard calcite stringers interspersed in sand formations with low unconfined compressive strength. The application guided drilling decisions that minimized invisible lost time and sh… -
Drillers are working to find ways to break some bad data habits. Those problems can range from the use of multiple formulas to calculate mechanical specific energy to timekeeping systems where the clocks and the time records are often off.
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ADNOC Drilling and ADNOC Logistics & Services have won the newest round of contracts to develop the mega sour-gas project that will expand the UAE’s production of LNG.
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It has often been considered risky to use heavy drillships in depths below 2,000 ft. However, a good measure of innovation and market timing has recently proved otherwise.
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Industry experts from Fugro analyze what the future holds for offshore energy fields and how the industry can embrace and prepare itself for an autonomous and digital future.
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The drilling of wells in shale and granite shares a common need—faster drilling is required to make it work.
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A new report shows that the tight offshore rig market is even tighter than most estimates reflect. This offers relief to battered drilling contractors which are now demanding higher dayrates.
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H&P pumps $33 million into LNG firm Galileo Technologies, supporting technology focused on decarbonization of the energy supply chain.
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Technology continues to transform every aspect of our lives and its role in modernizing oilfield operations is no different.
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An operator has redefined onsite operations reporting through the development of a standardized set of reporting activity codes as the backbone of a standardized digital well-design and execution process.
