Tag: drilling

Sacramento basin-focused natural gas developer and producer, Sacgasco Limited has advised that it plans to commence drilling of the company’s Dempsey 1-15 well in the Sacramento basin in California.

Cobalt International Energy has completed drilling operations on the North Platte #4 appraisal well in the US Gulf of Mexico.

Atwood Oceanics, Inc., a leading offshore drilling contractor headquartered in Houston, Texas, recently announced that one of its subsidiaries has agreed to a one-well drilling services contract with Woodside Energy Ltd.

GeoPark Limited has announced the successful drilling and testing of the Tigana 4 development well in Tigana oil field in the Llanos 34 Block in Colombia.

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.