HRT Participacoes em Petroleo SA, Rio de Janeiro, has ordered four heliportable drilling rigs for its exploratory program in the Solimoes basin in Brazil.
A joint venture of Andrews Technologies Inc. and Sichuan Honghua Petroleum Equipment Ltd. will provide the modular rigs, to be built in China and capable of drilling to 4,000 m, for arrival in the Amazon in mid-2012.
Alan Petzet is Chief Editor-Exploration of Oil & Gas Journal in Houston. He is editor of the Weekly E&D Newsletter, emailed to OGJ subscribers, and a regular contributor to the OGJ Online subscriber website.
Petzet joined OGJ in 1981 after 13 years in the Tulsa World business-oil department. He was named OGJ Exploration Editor in 1990. A native of Tulsa, he has a BA in journalism from the University of Tulsa.
