September/October Archives - Èý•NÌåÓý /2009/septemberoctober Get the latest oil drilling news with Èý•NÌåÓý Sun, 17 Feb 2019 19:20:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 202015461 Pushing for innovations in a risk-averse industry /pushing-for-innovations-in-a-risk-averse-industry-1904 /pushing-for-innovations-in-a-risk-averse-industry-1904#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:12:36 +0000 http://briancparks.com/drillingcontractor/?p=1904 For many petroleum engineers who end up building their careers on the drilling side of the business, one common theme often appears: Production is boring.

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]]> /pushing-for-innovations-in-a-risk-averse-industry-1904/feed 1 1904 People, Companies & Products /people-companies-products-8-1900 /people-companies-products-8-1900#respond Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:10:19 +0000 http://briancparks.com/drillingcontractor/?p=1900 Transocean announced that Steven L Newman has been chosen to succeed Robert L Long as the company’s chief executive officer upon Mr Long’s…

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]]> /people-companies-products-8-1900/feed 0 1900 Pride underscores training, safety commitment with new facility in France featuring rig, test well /pride-underscores-training-safety-commitment-with-new-facility-in-france-featuring-rig-test-well-1894 /pride-underscores-training-safety-commitment-with-new-facility-in-france-featuring-rig-test-well-1894#respond Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:04:53 +0000 http://briancparks.com/drillingcontractor/?p=1894 Pride International’s commitment to training runs deep, a company culture in a land where learning runs back through the centuries. In the land…

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]]> /pride-underscores-training-safety-commitment-with-new-facility-in-france-featuring-rig-test-well-1894/feed 0 1894 D&C Tech Digest /dc-tech-digest-8-1887 /dc-tech-digest-8-1887#respond Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:59:49 +0000 http://briancparks.com/drillingcontractor/?p=1887 Weatherford International and ENI have entered an agreement to develop a subsea drilling-with-casing system. It will enable a 20-in. casing string…

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]]> /dc-tech-digest-8-1887/feed 0 1887 D&C News /dc-news-8-1883 /dc-news-8-1883#respond Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:55:32 +0000 http://briancparks.com/drillingcontractor/?p=1883 Anadarko Petroleum announced in late July a discovery at the Vito exploration well in Mississippi Canyon block 984. The well encountered more than…

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]]> /dc-news-8-1883/feed 0 1883 Requiem for a Recession: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly /requiem-for-a-recession-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-1881 /requiem-for-a-recession-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-1881#respond Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:52:55 +0000 http://briancparks.com/drillingcontractor/?p=1881 Signs are increasingly positive for the overall economy, but the energy outlook is a case of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

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]]> /requiem-for-a-recession-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-1881/feed 0 1881 News Cuttings /news-cuttings-8-1877 /news-cuttings-8-1877#respond Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:50:24 +0000 http://briancparks.com/drillingcontractor/?p=1877 IADC president Dr Lee Hunt presented the IADC Exemplary Service Award to Steven J Gangelhoff, senior vice president, Northern Offshore Drilling…

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]]> /news-cuttings-8-1877/feed 0 1877 Wirelines /wirelines-8-1875 /wirelines-8-1875#respond Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:48:33 +0000 http://briancparks.com/drillingcontractor/?p=1875 Invited by Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas, IADC senior vice president – government affairs Brian Petty testified 21 July before the US House Ways and Means…

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]]> /wirelines-8-1875/feed 0 1875 Well control has come a long way since the days of oil gushers, primitive drilling /well-control-has-come-a-long-way-since-the-days-of-oil-gushers-primitive-drilling-1871 /well-control-has-come-a-long-way-since-the-days-of-oil-gushers-primitive-drilling-1871#respond Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:45:41 +0000 http://briancparks.com/drillingcontractor/?p=1871 It might seem hard to believe now, but once upon a time, well blowouts were seen as a cause for celebration. In fact, oil gushers used to be a symbol of newfound…

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]]> /well-control-has-come-a-long-way-since-the-days-of-oil-gushers-primitive-drilling-1871/feed 0 1871 Accurate wellbore trajectory delivers 70% more reservoir contact with Gullfaks sidetrack well /accurate-wellbore-trajectory-delivers-70-more-reservoir-contact-with-gullfaks-sidetrack-well-1867 /accurate-wellbore-trajectory-delivers-70-more-reservoir-contact-with-gullfaks-sidetrack-well-1867#respond Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:34:53 +0000 http://briancparks.com/drillingcontractor/?p=1867 The Gullfaks field is located in the central part of the East Shetland Basin in the Northern North Sea and was discovered in 1979. The StatoilHydro-operated field…

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