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World's first acoustic optical fiber installed (Sep 22, 2009)

Composite Energy Ltd., Stirling, UK, installed the world's first downhole distributed acoustic optical-fiber monitoring system in a coalbed methane well in Scotland, according to Fotech Solutions Ltd., Hampshire, UK, the fiber's manufacturer.

Through-tubing rotary drilling tested at Asgard (Sep 10, 2009)

A new through-tubing rotary drilling and well technology makes possible the reuse of old subsea wells in a simpler and more inexpensive way, according to StatoilHydro.

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