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Drilling Production 2010 P

  • 12/22/2010 -- US rig count increases slightly ahead of holiday
    US drilling activity increased slightly this week with 1,714 rotary rigs working, 5 more than the previous week and up from 1,178 rigs drilling in the comparable period a year ago, Baker Hughes Inc. reported Dec. 22 ahead of the Christmas holiday.
  • 12/22/2010 -- Contract awarded for Ekofisk platform
    ConocoPhillips has conditionally awarded a contract for the topsides module of the Ekofisk 2/4 Z production platform in the Norwegian North Sea.
  • 12/21/2010 -- BOEMRE issues additional deepwater drilling guidance
    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE) issued additional deepwater drilling guidance.
  • 12/17/2010 -- US drilling activity takes 14-rig hit
    US drilling activity decreased this week by 14 rotary rigs to 1,709 working. This compared with 1,193 active units in the same period a year ago, reported Baker Hughes Inc.
  • 12/16/2010 -- Saudi Aramco to boost Shaybah production
    Saudi Aramco let contracts worth nearly $500 million to GE Energy for equipment to expand Shaybah field’s oil production and natural gas-processing capacities.
  • 12/16/2010 -- Chevron to spend $4 billion on Big Foot field in gulf
    Chevron Corp. plans to spend $4 billion to develop Big Foot oil and gas field in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
  • 12/16/2010 -- Statoil shuts down Kristin platform in Norwegian Sea
    Statoil shut down Kristin platform in the Norwegian Sea because workers detected higher-than-acceptable temperature outside an exhaust duct on a gas turbine.
  • 12/16/2010 -- Mobile nitrogen rejection unit takes the field
    EQT Corp., Pittsburgh, has placed in service the world’s first mobile nitrogen rejection unit for nitrogen frac flowback at a Devonian Huron shale well in eastern Kentucky.
  • 12/15/2010 -- API endorses GWPC-IOGCC frac fluid disclosure proposal
    The American Petroleum Institute announced that it supports the state-based voluntary chemical registry that is being jointly developed by the Ground Water Protection Council and the Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission.
  • 12/15/2010 -- Jubilee field off Ghana starts production
    Production from Jubilee oil and gas field off Ghana has started, and partners expect output to reach 55,000 b/d of oil by yearend and 120,000 b/d during the first half of 2011 when additional wells are completed, operator Tullow Oil PLC and partners said Dec. 15.
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