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£2.1m funding for Deep Casing Tools

Apr 22, 2013

Aberdeen-based Deep Casing Tools, which develops an innovative range of tools designed to land casing and completions at target depth within an oil or gas well has received £2.1 million funding from the Scottish Loan Fund (SLF). Deep…

M-I Swaco gets SMART on displacements

Apr 15, 2013

M-I Swaco, a Schlumberger Company, took OE on a tour of its new SMART 3D package of integrated displacement services. Audrey Leon reports from Houston. MM-I SWACO unveiled its SMART 3D displacement package on February 28 at the Houston Museum of Natural Science…

Allan Denholm joins Zilift

Apr 03, 2013

Aberdeen-based innovative artificial lift company, Zilift Ltd, has appointed a business development manager to focus on global business opportunities and to help drive forward international growth plans. Allan Denholm is responsible for…

Wintershall wildcat’s a gas

Mar 27, 2013

Wintershall Norge hit gas and condensate at its Norwegian Sea wildcat 6407/16 S. The well discovered waterbearing reservoirs with gross vertical thickness of 118 and 123m, respectively, in the Garn and Ile formations. Gas and condensate were…

Anadarko touts new GOM find

Mar 20, 2013

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. encountered approximately 1,000 net feet of oil pay at its Shenandoah-2 well in deepwater Gulf of Mexico, the company announced on March 19, 2013.Ensco 8500 semisubmersible series (Image: Ensco) Anadarko discovered the…

Endeavor Management to advise Petrobras on Papa Terra project

Mar 11, 2013

Endeavor wins Papa Terra advisory projectEndeavor Management announced today that Petrobras has retained the Houston-based consulting firm to provide third-party review and advisory services on the Papa Terra project. Endeavor will work…

Oceaneering reports record earnings

Feb 15, 2013

Oceaneering International, Inc. reported record fourth-quarter and annual earnings for the periods ended December 31, 2012.For the 4Q 2012, Oceaneering earned net income of $80.6 million, or $0.74 per share, on revenue of $780.9 million. During the corresponding period in 2011…

eRed goes to Asia

Feb 01, 2013

Red Spider’s remote open close technology, eRed, has been deployed in Malaysia and Vietnam. Working with Petronas in Malaysia, eRed removed wireline runs from completion operations, and reduced wireline interventions in a highly deviated well…

Halliburton

Feb 01, 2013

Halliburton has added remote, open-close technology specialists Red Spider to its Halliburton Completion Tools product service line. The Aberdeen based Red Spider said the acquisition not only expands its geographical reach in Australasia, Brazil…

A streamlined approach to tubular management

Feb 01, 2013

Weatherford has been mobilizing a bucking unit equipped with torque/turn process control systems to an operator’s onshore Australian support base and providing full pipe preparation. Weatherford’s Aaron Sinnott explains how these services significantly reduced operating costs…

Balai bonanza

Feb 01, 2013

BC Petroleum (a ROC, Dialog Group and Petronas venture) discovered 87m of hydrocarbon pay in multiple zones of the Balai-2 well off east Malaysia. Drilled to 2266m TD, Balai-2 targeted a shallow carbonate reservoir and a deeper series of stacked sandstone reservoirs…

Statoil wildcat bites dust

Jan 28, 2013

Wildcat is first drilled by Statoil in PL386 Seadrill's West Alpha drilling facilityStatoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 386, has completed drilling of wildcat well 6610/10-1. The well is dry. The well was drilled about…

Karoon hops for Kangaroo oil

Jan 25, 2013

Australian firm locates light oil off Brazil Click to view largerKaroon Gas Australia has encountered light oil at the Kangaroo-1 exploration well on Block S-M-1101 in the Santos Basin off Brazil, partner Pacific Rubiales announced on 25 January 2013…

Eni touts Ghana find

Jan 18, 2013

Eni discovers oil and gas pay at Sankofa wellTesting at Sankofa-2 ST (Photo: Vitol)Eni successfully drilled Sankofa East 2A, the first appraisal well of the Sankofa East oil discovery in the Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) block, located in the Tano Basin offshore Ghana…

Expro picks up Indian subsea job

Nov 27, 2012

Photo: ExproExpro has been awarded its first major subsea completion landing string contract in India, the company announced on 26 November 2012.The three-year contract comes with options to extend for another two years. The scope of work…

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