Tag: drilling

Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas), a global energy company with operations in North and South America, and MIT Innovation Sdn Bhd have partnered to develop Intelligent Circulation While Drilling (iCWD), a smart technology that can lower drilling costs significantly.

Houston, Texas-based CIRCOR Energy Instrumentation Group is set to supply products to the Statoil Johan Sverdrup Development (Statoil). Statoil has chosen CIRCOR Energy Instrumentation products as part of a significant supply package awarded to MRC Teamtrade, a Norwegian unit of MRC Global Inc.

Brazil’s National Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Biofuels agency (ANP) has announced the first 12 companies pre-approved for the country’s upcoming 13th bid round to be held on October 7th, 2015.

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement’s (BSEE) Director Brian Salerno has announced that Shell has received approval of one Application for Permit to Modify (APM) to conduct exploratory drilling activities into potential oil-bearing zones offshore Alaska at one of the wells at the Burger prospect, Burger J.

Brazil’s Petrobras has begun production on the platform P-61 in Papa Terra field, which is located near the southern perimeter of the Campos Basin (State of Rio de Janeiro), approximately 110 kilometers off the coast of Brazil.

Currently, Phillips 66 is preparing to replace a pipe near Billings and bury it deeper below the Yellowstone River. The company has improved 60 of its pipeline river crossings in recent years and has 40 more to go.

Petrobras has published updates on their recent drilling activities throughout South America for the first three months of 2014.

President Energy entered into an eighteen-month contract with Schlumberger for project management and integrated drilling and completion services, including well site supervision and engineering, for its Paraguay drilling program.  Peter Levine, Chairman, President Energy commented: “We are very pleased to have reached this agreement with Schlumberger.

The independent appeals board of the Environmental Protection Agency have upheld final air pollution permits required by Royal Dutch Shell to launch a drilling project in the Arctic waters off the coast of Alaska this summer.

Rowan, a Houston, Texas-based driller has announced plans to move home base to the UK. The company has said that relocating to the UK would make communication with its rigs more efficient, as 74% are located outside the United States including Egypt and the North Sea and Rowan would also be able to take advantage of better tax rates.