Drilling And Completions News

 

Expro launches 30,000psi perf gun system

Oct 24, 2017

Oilfield services firm Expro has launched a new extreme high-pressure tubing conveyed perforating (TCP) gun system, delivering the largest perforation hole area available for frac and gravel pack completions. Designed specifically for challenging deepwater environments in the Gulf of Mexico…

Emerson debuts PolyOil JAR Handling Clamp

Aug 15, 2017

Emerson Automation Solutions has launched the latest product within its polymer completions solutions range, the PolyOil JAR Handling Clamp, for increased safety and well integrity. PolyOil JAR Handling Clamp…

BP extends Amec, Qedi services agreement

May 04, 2017

Amec Foster Wheeler’s completions and commissioning company, qedi, has signed an extension of its global Master Service Agreement with BP, which it has successfully delivered since 2012. The new contract with BP will run for two years through till December 2019…

SLB develops fluid mapping service, SpectraSphere

May 03, 2017

Schlumberger (SLB) has released their new SpectraSphere fluid mapping-while-drilling service at the 2017 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas. The service delivers downhole fluid composition during drilling with real-time pressure measurements-while-drilling…

Teaching machines to speak drilling

May 01, 2017

Maana’s Jeff Dalgliesh discusses a recent project with Chevron aimed at training a machine to understand how drillers describe problems encountered during operations. Image from iStock. Typically…

NPD awards AGR support agreement

Apr 28, 2017

AGR has been awarded a frame agreement to deliver well and drilling engineering advice to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) to support evaluation of drilling programs, well design and testing, completions and plugging and abandoning…

BP names AGT president, production COO

Mar 16, 2017

BP has named appointments for the regional president for Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey (AGT), and for the chief operating officer, production, transformation and carbon.  Gary Jones has been appointed the new regional president for AGT…

GE, Baker Hughes to merge

Oct 31, 2016

GE and Baker Hughes are teaming up to form the “new” Baker Hughes, a company that will be led by current GE Oil & Gas CEO Lorenzo Simonelli and have dual headquarters in Houston and London. Image of Simonelli…

Video: Jack/St. Malo in 360 degrees

Oct 11, 2016

In this video, US supermajor Chevron shows a 360° video tour of its Jack/St. Malo facility, its largest deepwater offshore platform, offshore the US Gulf of Mexico.  The Jack and St. Malo fields were co-developed with subsea completions…

Schlumberger acquires France's Saltel Industries

Jun 01, 2016

Schlumberger has acquired France-based Saltel Industries in a move that will strengthen the company’s completions technology portfolio. Image of Saltel's SES Patch for pipeline repair, from Saltel Twitter…

AccessESP names Middle East, North Africa region manager

Jun 01, 2016

AccessESP, a leading provider of rigless electric submersible pump (ESP) conveyance solutions, appointed Anwar Assal as Middle East and North Africa region manager. Based in Dubai, Assal will be responsible for developing and enhancing…

Sounding the alarm

Jun 01, 2016

Michael Cole, Fugro’s manager of survey prospects, explains how dynamic alarms coupled with office assisted remote services, can help provide better early warnings and navigation for end users. Vessel…

bpTT's Juniper subsea tree delivery

May 23, 2016

In this video, BP shows the delivery of its five subsea trees required for the Juniper project offshore Trinidad and Tobago. The subsea trees, which weigh 76-tonne each, were delivered on using an Antonov 124 cargo aircraft. The trees were built with materials from Singapore…

Ichthys uses Sonardyne SensorView

May 10, 2016

Software that enables acoustic data to be streamed in real-time from subsea structures as they are installed has helped to reduce non-production time (NPT) for independent oil and gas producer, INPEX, and its survey contractor, Neptune Geomatics…

Eni expands HAL software adoption

Apr 08, 2016

Eni has expanded the adoption of Halliburton Landmark’s DecisionSpace Geosciences across its exploration business units worldwide. Eni decided to expand the utilization of Landmark’s solution in order to improve efficiency through integration and cross-disciplinary collaboration…

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