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Carbon sense

Sep 01, 2015

Flow visualization in horizontal wells is being improved thanks to carbon composite rods. Elaine Maslin takes a look. The yellow wireline mast suspends the top sheave and the pressure control equipment…

MZ-1 offshore Morocco dry for Freeport

Aug 11, 2015

Freeport-McMoRan's MZ-1 deepwater exploration well offshore Morocco has reached total depth without finding oil, according to partner Pura Vida Energy. The well, on the Mazagan permit, was drilled through the three prognosed Jurassic…

Elmar appoints global after-sales manager

Apr 16, 2015

Elmar, the global leader in the design and manufacturing of wireline products for slickline and electric line applications, appointed Keith Thomson as global after-sales manager. Thomson, who brings more than 26 years of wireline operations experience to this role…

Karoon hits at third Santos well

Apr 13, 2015

Karoon Gas Australia made a discovery at the Echidna-1 exploration well, the third in the Santos drilling campaign, offshore Brazil. Image from Karoon.   According to the Australian company…

Deepwater Malaysia discovery for JX Nippon

Apr 07, 2015

Japanese exploration firm JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration's Malaysia subsidiary is planning two further exploration wells offshore Malaysia after confirming a deepwater oil discovery. The Bestari-1 exploration well, the first drilled in Deepwater Block R (the Block)…

Ziebel introduces Optic Z-Line

Mar 26, 2015

Stavanger-based Ziebel announced that for the first time in oil and gas history, the Z-Line, a gravity-deployed slim carbon composite cable, was used to acquire meaningful distributed temperature and distributed acoustic fiber optic data during a commercial well intervention…

Expro CEO joins Seadrill board

Jan 15, 2015

Seadrill added Charles Woodburn to its board of directors. Woodburn has been CEO of Expro Group since 2010. Previously, he spent 15 years with Schlumberger where he held many senior management roles, including president of Wireline. More recently…

Blue Ocean IRIS breaks record

Dec 12, 2014

Blue Ocean Technologies Interchangeable Riserless Intervention System (IRIS) recently intervened on a deepwater production well in the Gulf of Mexico’s Desoto Canyon reaching a record-breaking 8200ft.   Image from Blue Ocean…

Karoon hits at Kangaroo-2

Nov 26, 2014

Australia’s Karoon Gas encountered oil in five separate zones in the Kangaroo-2 appraisal well in the Santos basin, offshore Brazil. Map of the five wells located in the Santos basin. From Karoon.    Kangaroo…

Karoon continues at Kangaroo-2

Nov 19, 2014

Drilling continues at Karoon Gas Australia’s Kanagroo-2 in the 12 ¼ in. hole section at a current depth of 1760m. The Olinda Star. From Karoon.   The Kangaroo-2 appraisal well is located…

Vaalco shuts-in Ebouri field

Nov 05, 2014

Vaalco Energy, Inc. temporarily shut-in Well 2-H in the Ebouri field, offshore Gabon. The shut-in was to determine the cause of pressure communication between the tubing and casing annuli.  Ebouri is a redevelopment project located within the Etame Marin permit…

CNOOC hits Miocene oil in second Beibu Gulf well

Oct 15, 2014

CNOOC discovered oil in its second Beibu Gulf well, WZ12-10-2, in Block 22/12, off the southern Chinese coast. The shallow-water (36m WD) location is about 1.6km (1mi.) east-northeast of the WZ12-8W platform and about 3.2km west-southwest of the previously drilled discovery well…

Wireline Engineering expands Southeast Asia operations

Sep 25, 2014

Aberdeen-based Wireline Engineering further expanded its operations in Southeast Asia with an increase in staff and office space. Equipment maintenance is carried out by skilled technicians. Image…

ONS: Schlumberger launches Quanta Geo

Aug 25, 2014

Schlumberger today launched the Quanta Geo photorealistic reservoir geology service at the Offshore Northern Seas Annual Conference and Exhibition (ONS). The new service includes the industry’s first microresistivity imager that produces oriented…

ConocoPhillips hits gas at Pharos-1

Jul 17, 2014

ConocoPhillips encountered a hydrocarbon pay in the Browse basin, off Western Australia, according to partner Karoon Gas. Karoon said the Pharos-1 well, in permit WA-398-P, showed a 53m gross interval, with a 34m net pay interpreted in the gas charged Montara formation sandstone reservoir…

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