Drilling Operations News

Chevron to drill relief well offshore Nigeria

Feb 20, 2012

Chevron Nigeria Ltd. said a contractor started drilling a relief well to seal the Funiwa 1A natural gas well, which caught on fire Jan. 16 about 6 miles offshore Nigeria in 40 ft of water.

US drilling rig rises by 5 units to 1,994

Feb 17, 2012 US oil and gas drilling activity this week increased by 5 units to 1,994 total rigs working. The rig count for the week ended Feb. 17 was up by 281 rigs from the comparable period a year ago, Baker...

US drilling rig count falls 8 units

Feb 10, 2012 US oil and gas drilling activity this week fell by 8 units to 1,989 total rigs working. The rig count for the week ended Feb. 10 was up by 268 rigs from the comparable period a year ago, Baker Hugh...

Seadrill announces contracts for three jack up rigs

Feb 7, 2012 Seadrill Ltd. announced contracts for the three jack up rigs: Offshore Mischief, Offshore Defender, and West Leda. The three contracts have an aggregated revenue potential of $311 million including...

ExxonMobil licenses sand-control technology

Feb 7, 2012

ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co. has issued a global license for proprietary oil-well sand-control technology to Weatherford International Ltd.

Dutch North Sea well provides development clues

Feb 7, 2012 Sterling Resources Ltd., Calgary, said results of its F17-09 appraisal well in Netherlands North Sea Block F17a will assist the company in understanding how to optimally develop the discovery as pa...

IHS: Shale plays driving demand for oil field chemicals

Feb 6, 2012 The global market for oil field specialty chemicals reached nearly $16 billion in 2010 with the US and Canada accounting for 52%, which an IHS Chemical market study attributed to increasing oil and...

Optimized cement slurry improves bonding in Tabamiao block wells

Feb 6, 2012

Optimization of the displacement flow rate improved the cement bonding of Tabamiao block's gas exploration wells in the Ordos basin of north central China.

US drilling rig count falls 11 units

Feb 3, 2012 US oil and gas drilling rig activity this week fell by 11 units to 1,997 total rigs working. The rig count for the week ended Feb. 3 was up by 258 rigs from the comparable period a year ago, Baker ...

McMoRan logs Sparta, Vicksburg pay at Blackbeard East

Jan 31, 2012 McMoRan Exploration Co., New Orleans, said its Blackbeard East ultradeep exploratory bypass well on the Gulf of Mexico shelf encountered potential hydrocarbons in the Sparta carbonate section of Eo...

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