Drilling & production

On June 19, EQT Corporation entered into an agreement to acquire Rice Energy for US$ 8.2 billion.

Coretrax, leading engineered servicing company for wellbore clean and abandonment, has marked an important milestone with the setting of its 200th CX-2 bridge plug.

The HEAL Systems™ company will offer producers operating efficiencies and cost savings.

Statoil’s plans for the development and operation of Njord and Bauge have now been approved by authorities.

88 Energy Limited has provided an update on Project Icewine, located onshore North Slope of Alaska.

AWE Limited, the operator of Production Licences L1/L2 in the northern Perth Basin, Western Australia, has announced that the Waitsia-3 appraisal well reached Total Depth (TD) of 3612 m Measured Depth below Rotary Table (MDRT).

Apache North Sea has awarded Expro a US$10million well services contract extension.

Ecopetrol S.A has been awarded shared production contracts for hydrocarbon exploration and extraction, along with Petronas and Pemex.

Cooper Energy has announced that Callawonga-17, an appraisal and development well drilled by the PEL 92 Joint Venture in PPL 220, is to be cased and suspended as a future oil producer.

Pulsar service is designed to deliver rigless formation evaluation and monitoring for any reservoir to improve drilling efficiency and well productivity.

Weatherford International has announced the commercial release of the Raptor™ 2.0 cased-hole evaluation system today at the Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts Annual Symposium.

Rosneft is performing the drilling of the northernmost exploratory well on the Eastern Arctic shelf following a comprehensive geological study.

UK Oil & Gas Investments PLC has announced that it has now drilled and cased-off the 12 ¼ in. hole section of its 100% interest Broadford Bridge-1 exploration well.

Condor Petroleum Inc., a Canadian based oil and gas company focused on exploration and production activities in Turkey and Kazakhstan, has provided an operations update.

Antelope Oil Tool and Centergenics have announced the first generation stop collar for the CentraMax CT Product Line.