Upstream drilling news

The drilling repair company MRDS has been acquired by Aberdeen-based investment firm Garrick Group.

Cerebo Force in-bit sensors are designed to capture weight, torque and bending measurements directly from the bit.

The drillship Noble Sam Croft will begin drilling in 4Q20 after the rig finishes its current programme offshore Suriname.

Well 6507/4-1 will be drilled from the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility in production licence 1009.

Wildcat well 7219/9-3 was drilled about 25 km south of the Johan Castberg field in the Barents Sea and 220 km northwest of Hammerfest.

The company is investing US$1 million in the California-based company Clean Energy Systems to help develop a new technology called Carbon-Negative Energy.

The drilling programme for well 6407/1-8 S & A relates to the drilling of wildcat wells in production licence 263 D.

Eni, BP and Total have successfully tested the well drilled on the Bashrush prospect in the North El Hammad concession.

Yannis Bassias, former President & CEO at Hellenic Hydrocarbon Resources Management (HHRM), talks about exploration in the Mediterranean, changes in the gas market, ultra-deepwater drilling, and explains why Greece “is not a declared gas province yet”.

The GD 250HDD pump expands Gardner Denver’s pump offerings into the wider horizontal directional drilling space for the first time.