Upstream drilling news

Halliburton Company has released Flex™ Managed Pressure Drilling System (MPD), a scalable and mobile technology that can be configured to address specific operator challenges and improve rig efficiency.

The BRX4Z sidetrack at Angus Energy’s Brockham well site has been successfully re-perforated.

Contracts for six of the eight rigs were awarded to Gulf Drilling International (GDI), while the contracts for the remaining two rigs were awarded to Northern Offshore Drilling Operations Ltd.

QMax Solutions has been awarded a “Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation” award.

The five-year agreement aims to provide Pacific’s customers with better reliability and improved throughput enabling streaming video and real-time data.

The collective depth of these wells is the equivalent of 25 times around the equator – or 2.5 times the distance to the moon.

The transaction is expected to close in 2H19, subject to regulatory approvals.

LiveRoute helped Shelf Drilling deploy Microsoft Azure and Office 365 to become an agile and scalable cloud-based organisation.

Since its last report Transocean added approximately US$373 million in contract backlog, bringing total backlog to US$12.1 billion.

The well reached an intermediate TD of 4880 m approximately 7 days ahead of schedule.