November/December Archives - 三昇体育 /2015/novemberdecember-2014-2015 Get the latest oil drilling news with 三昇体育 Fri, 15 Feb 2019 20:40:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 202015461 Drilling & Completion News /drilling-completion-news-25-37330 /drilling-completion-news-25-37330#respond Mon, 26 Oct 2015 19:52:39 +0000 https://live-drillingcontractor-org.pantheonsite.io/?p=37330 Atwood Oceanics has agreed to a one-year extension and rate adjustment to its existing contract with Kosmos Energy Ventures for the Atwood Achiever.

The ultra-deepwater drillship commenced its three-year drilling services contract with Kosmos on 12 November 2014 for operations offshore northwest Africa. The agreement adjusts the operating dayrate to approximately $495,500, net of taxes, and extends the contract end date to 12 November 2018. As part of the agreement, Kosmos has an option that may be exercised at any time through 1 October 2016 to revert the contract to the original operating dayrate and original end date. Exercising this option will result in a payment that includes the difference in dayrates, taxes and an administrative fee covering the time periods for which the reduced day rate was invoiced.

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]]> /drilling-completion-news-25-37330/feed 0 37330 Drilling & Completion Tech Digest /drilling-completion-tech-digest-25-37335 /drilling-completion-tech-digest-25-37335#respond Mon, 26 Oct 2015 19:52:39 +0000 https://live-drillingcontractor-org.pantheonsite.io/?p=37335 Halliburton鈥檚 Completion Tools business line has achieved the first installation of the SmartPlex downhole control system in a six-zone multilateral well. The installation was a joint effort across functional teams within the Intelligent Completions group and was the first electro-hydraulic (EH) system installed by Halliburton in the Middle East. The installation was completed with zero nonproductive time and no HSE issues.

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]]> /drilling-completion-tech-digest-25-37335/feed 0 37335 As industry seeks cheaper ways to boost production, horizontal refractures gain prominence /as-industry-seeks-cheaper-ways-to-boost-production-horizontal-refractures-gain-prominence-37382 /as-industry-seeks-cheaper-ways-to-boost-production-horizontal-refractures-gain-prominence-37382#respond Mon, 26 Oct 2015 19:52:39 +0000 https://live-drillingcontractor-org.pantheonsite.io/?p=37382 The convergence of reduced operator CAPEX, advances in fracturing technologies and know-how, and diminishing production from vintage shale wells is shining a spotlight on well refracs. Particularly with lower oil prices rendering some new drilling projects uneconomical, operators are increasingly looking to refracturing as a low-cost method of boosting production. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a perfect storm,鈥 said Tim Leshchyshyn, FracKnowledge President and Completions Advisor for Korean National Oil Company. 鈥淚t is not going to be as good as when we were drilling all those (new) wells each year, but it is an area of great potential.鈥

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]]> /as-industry-seeks-cheaper-ways-to-boost-production-horizontal-refractures-gain-prominence-37382/feed 0 37382 Dayrates are down, but rig count remains steady in Middle East /dayrates-are-down-but-rig-count-remains-steady-in-middle-east-37422 /dayrates-are-down-but-rig-count-remains-steady-in-middle-east-37422#respond Mon, 26 Oct 2015 19:52:38 +0000 https://live-drillingcontractor-org.pantheonsite.io/?p=37422 While a downward trend in activity and rig count has been observed around the world in response to the oil price slump, the Middle East appears to be bucking this trend. According to numbers from Baker Hughes, the Middle East鈥檚 rig count has averaged 404 to date in 2015. That鈥檚 nearly the same as the region鈥檚 average rig count of 406 in 2014 and up from an average of 372 rigs in 2013.

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]]> /dayrates-are-down-but-rig-count-remains-steady-in-middle-east-37422/feed 0 37422 Raising the sand bar /raising-the-sand-bar-37450 /raising-the-sand-bar-37450#respond Mon, 26 Oct 2015 19:52:38 +0000 https://live-drillingcontractor-org.pantheonsite.io/?p=37450 In virtually every well worldwide, operators have to contend with some degree of sand production, a phenomenon that more often than not leads to erosion, sand accumulation, plugging, formation collapse and contamination. These issues have serious financial, safety and environmental implications for operators, often resulting in clean-outs, reduced flow rates and production, and unplanned shutdowns.

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]]> /raising-the-sand-bar-37450/feed 0 37450 IADC ART, DEC: Drill faster with less NPT /iadc-art-dec-drill-faster-with-less-npt-37328 /iadc-art-dec-drill-faster-with-less-npt-37328#respond Mon, 26 Oct 2015 19:52:38 +0000 https://live-drillingcontractor-org.pantheonsite.io/?p=37328 Two of IADC鈥檚 most technically focused committees are picking up the pace to improve drilling efficiency and safety. Rebounding from our annual Advanced Rig Technology (ART) Conference & Exhibition (Amsterdam in October), we learned that some attitudes toward automation are shifting significantly 鈥 and others are not.

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]]> /iadc-art-dec-drill-faster-with-less-npt-37328/feed 0 37328 Persevering through industry ups and downs to make things better /persevering-through-industry-ups-and-downs-to-make-things-better-37341 /persevering-through-industry-ups-and-downs-to-make-things-better-37341#respond Mon, 26 Oct 2015 19:52:38 +0000 https://live-drillingcontractor-org.pantheonsite.io/?p=37341 2015 marked the 75th anniversary of IADC. Over this time, our members have experienced the inevitable ebbs and flows of the global oil and gas industry. But this year has been as testing as any we have known 鈥 low oil prices and high operational costs have led to drastic reduction in rig counts globally both onshore and offshore.

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]]> /persevering-through-industry-ups-and-downs-to-make-things-better-37341/feed 0 37341 Taking holistic approach to designing cement sheaths helps maintain zonal isolation for life of well, increases ROI /taking-holistic-approach-to-designing-cement-sheaths-helps-maintain-zonal-isolation-for-life-of-well-increases-roi-37432 /taking-holistic-approach-to-designing-cement-sheaths-helps-maintain-zonal-isolation-for-life-of-well-increases-roi-37432#respond Mon, 26 Oct 2015 19:52:37 +0000 https://live-drillingcontractor-org.pantheonsite.io/?p=37432 More than ever, financial institutions are requiring increased returns on their investments. Oil and gas producers are seeking larger reservoirs with higher delivery rates. Many of these new reservoirs are in areas that present unique technical and operational challenges, such as ultra-deepwater, high pressure and/or high temperature, extreme extended reach, brownfield redevelopments, etc. The cost for finding and harvesting oil and gas reservoirs is increasing, which also affects shareholder value.

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]]> /taking-holistic-approach-to-designing-cement-sheaths-helps-maintain-zonal-isolation-for-life-of-well-increases-roi-37432/feed 0 37432 Wirelines /wirelines-48-37473 /wirelines-48-37473#respond Mon, 26 Oct 2015 19:52:37 +0000 https://live-drillingcontractor-org.pantheonsite.io/?p=37473 In September, the US House Committee on Natural Resources hosted a field hearing in New Orleans. IADC attended the meeting, 鈥淭he Impacts of Federal Policies on Energy Production and Economic Growth in the Gulf,鈥 and later submitted comments to the record which outlined changes to existing law that could help spur safer energy production in the US.

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]]> /wirelines-48-37473/feed 0 37473 HSE&T Corner: Learning from the fast lane: Formula One improves safety by putting it second to none /hset-corner-learning-from-the-fast-lane-formula-one-improves-safety-by-putting-it-second-to-none-37481 /hset-corner-learning-from-the-fast-lane-formula-one-improves-safety-by-putting-it-second-to-none-37481#respond Mon, 26 Oct 2015 19:52:37 +0000 https://live-drillingcontractor-org.pantheonsite.io/?p=37481 Auto racing is an inherently risky activity, and for the first 45 years of Formula One (F1), that risk was reflected strongly and plainly in the number of fatalities that occurred: 43 driver deaths from 1950 to 1994. Then, on 1 May 1994, everything changed, said Mark Gallagher, author of 鈥淭he Business of Winning: Strategic Success from the Formula One Track to the Boardroom.鈥

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