Tag: drilling

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.

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  Leni Gas & Oil has announced that with the imminent arrival of the Ocean Columbia jack-up rig, drilling on the Eugene Island field in the Gulf of Mexico.

Natural gas company Anshutz Exploration has sued the town of Dryden in central New York in an effort to strike down a recent zoning law prohibiting gas drilling there. While New York State is considering whether to allow hydraulic fracturing, more than a dozen municipalities have enacted gas-drilling bans or restrictions.