U.S. headquartered oil and gas company Kosmos Energy said on Wednesday it will abandon an offshore well in Suriname because it failed to find oil, the second well it plugged in the region in recent months for the same reason.Kosmos said the鈥
Oilfield services firm Expro has launched a new extreme high-pressure tubing conveyed perforating (TCP) gun system, delivering the largest perforation hole area available for frac and gravel pack completions. Designed specifically for challenging deepwater environments in the Gulf of Mexico鈥
A jackable semi improves performance and introduces construction advantages, says BP鈥檚 John Murray. Installation configuration concept. Illustrations from BP. Over the past several decades鈥
Byron Energy has signed a drilling contract with Ensco 云顶赌场老虎机 for the Ensco 68 jackup rig to drill at the company鈥檚 South Marsh Island Block 71 drilling and completion program in the Gulf of Mexico. Ensco 68 jackup鈥
Emerson Automation Solutions has launched the latest product within its polymer completions solutions range, the PolyOil JAR Handling Clamp, for increased safety and well integrity. PolyOil JAR Handling Clamp鈥
Diamond 云顶赌场老虎机 is championing a new Floating Factory concept meant to meet future deepwater challenges, but drumming up support during the downturn may be tough. Karen Boman reports. Photo from iStock鈥
BP Ventures, Schlumberger Ventures and GE Ventures have agreed a US$6.5 million (£5 million) investment into metal-to-metal downhole sealing solutions firm BiSN. Under the terms of the investment, BiSN and BP Ventures will work together to develop a commercial portfolio of technology鈥
Mats Andersen, Stephen Forrester, and Andrew Creegan, of NOV, discuss how to overcome potentially damaging stick-slip issues and improve drilling performance rates. Figure 1 鈥 The SoftSpeed II鈥
Statoil has received consent from Norway鈥檚 Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to use Songa Encourage semisubmersible vessel for drilling and completing a production well on the Troll field. Image of the Songa Encourage鈥
Tendeka has launched PulseEight, its latest advance in wireless intelligent completion technology for the digital oilfield. Tendeka鈥檚 PulseEight system uses unique pressure pulse telemetry to channel wireless communication between a well鈥檚鈥
Amec Foster Wheeler鈥檚 completions and commissioning company, qedi, has signed an extension of its global Master Service Agreement with BP, which it has successfully delivered since 2012. The new contract with BP will run for two years through till December 2019鈥
Baker Hughes (BHI) has introduced its DEEPFRAC deepwater multistage fracturing service, which aims to save operators hundreds of millions of dollars in offshore developments through efficiency gains across the completion phase. Using multiposition sleeves and patented flowback control technology鈥
Quietly, but surely, high-pressure, high-temperature expertise is being developed on the UK Continental Shelf. Elaine Maslin sets out the detail. Action on Alder. Photos from Airborne. The North Sea鈥檚 latest high-pressure鈥
Jerry Lee examines how Schlumberger鈥檚 PowerDrive ICE ultraHT RSS enabled Pemex to drill a high temperature well in Mexico鈥檚 shallow Sureste Basin. The proprietary electronics in the PowerDrive鈥
AGR has been awarded a frame agreement to deliver well and drilling engineering advice to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) to support evaluation of drilling programs, well design and testing, completions and plugging and abandoning鈥
