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Drilling & Completions

    Buccaneer Energy contracts rig for Vick #2

    Buccaneer Energy Limited has contrated a rig for the drilling of the vertical section of the Vick # 2 well ...
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    Published: 3/10/2010   Posted in: North America, Drilling & Completions, Digest
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    Exterra to begin drilling plans for their Barnett Shale Assets

    Exterra Energy Inc. has announced the beginning of the development of their Barnett Shale assets ...
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    Published: 3/10/2010   Posted in: North America, Drilling & Completions, Digest
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    New Aberdeen company Subsea Technologies acquires Lewis assets

    Newly-formed Subsea Technologies Ltd (STL) has bought some intellectual property and the assets of Lewis Ltd from interim liquidator Invocas Financial Solutions ...
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    Published: 3/8/2010   Posted in: North Sea & Western Europe, Drilling & Completions, Digest
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    AlMansoori signs joint venture with Key Energy

    AlMansoori Petroleum Services has signed a joint venture agreement with American-based onshore energy production services company Key Energy Services ...
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    Published: 3/8/2010   Posted in: Middle East & North Africa, Drilling & Completions, Financial News
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    Hoki-1 drilling announced

    Drilling is set to begin at the Hoki-1 exploration well, New Zealand Oil & Gas (NZOG) announced 5 March ...
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    Published: 3/5/2010   Posted in: Drilling & Completions, Features, Australia, Australasian Oil and Gas
    Tags: person:russell mcculley, stateorcounty:kan, country:new zealand, region:north cape, city:new plymouth, company:petroleum resources, company:nzog
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    LLOG Exploration announces discovery at its deepwater Mandy prospect

    LLOG Exploration Co. has announced drilling success at its deepwater Gulf of Mexico Mandy prospect in Mississippi Canyon 199 ...
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    Published: 3/3/2010   Posted in: North America, Drilling & Completions, Digest
    Tags: geographicfeature:mississippi canyon, company:nyse, company:apache corporation, company:llog, stateorcounty:mississippi, geographicfeature:green canyon, region:gulf of mexico, company:llog exploration co, person:mandy, person:scott gutterman
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    Baker Hughes bags Saudi coiled tubing contract

    Baker Hughes picked up a two-year contract with Saudi Aramco for two fit-for-purpose underbalanced coiled tubing drilling packages ...
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    Published: 2/25/2010   Posted in: Middle East & North Africa, Drilling & Completions, Features
    Tags: person:russell mcculley, company:saudi aramco, company:baker hughes, country:saudi arabia
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    Prod probes Statoil's seabed soils

    An Australian-designed seabed drilling rig got the thumbs up from Statoil after completing a challenging geotechnical assignment for the Luva development in the Norwegian Sea and has now moved on to West African waters . . .
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    Published: 2/24/2010   Posted in: North Sea & Western Europe, Drilling & Completions, AOG Magazine News, West Africa
    Tags: country:norway, person:jennifer pallanich, geographicfeature:norwegian sea, person:tor inge tjelta, person:benthic geotech, facility:luva
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    Rock science

    The challenges that lie ahead in completing wells in increasingly challenging technical and economic conditions were aired during the International Association of Drilling Contractors’ first conference devoted solely to the art of completions . . .
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    Published: 2/23/2010   Posted in: North America, Drilling & Completions, AOG Magazine News
    Tags: person:jennifer pallanich, person:vikram rao, person:moe plaisance, company:transocean, person:kevin lacy, facility:omni hotel, region:gulf of mexico, city:houston, person:paul king
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    Kronos-1 exploration well spudded

    Karoon Gas Australia Ltd advises that the Kronos-1 exploration well was spudded at 20:50 hours (WST) on 19 February 2010 ...
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    Published: 2/23/2010   Posted in: Drilling & Completions, Digest, Australia, Australasian Oil and Gas
    Tags: facility:poseidon field
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    Leed reports drilling success at Ship Shoal

    Leed Petroleum PLC announced that the Ship Shoal 201 A-6 well has reached its total depth ...
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    Published: 2/23/2010   Posted in: North America, Drilling & Completions, Digest
    Tags: city:new orleans, stateorcounty:louisiana, region:gulf of mexico, company:leed petroleum plc, person:howard wilson
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    InterOil signs deal in Colombia

    InterOil (IOX) has announced that 10% of their Altair license in the Llanos Basin, Colombia has been traded against the drilling of two firm wells in 2010 ...
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    Published: 2/23/2010   Posted in: Drilling & Completions, Digest, Latin America
    Tags: company:interoil, geographicfeature:llanos basin, country:peru, country:colombia, city:altair
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    Pride International dedicates new deepwater drillship

    Pride International, Inc. has dedicated the first of its four new deepwater drillships under construction by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea, the Deep Ocean Ascension ...
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    Published: 2/23/2010   Posted in: North America, Drilling & Completions, Lead Item
    Tags: company:pride international, inc, country:us, company:samsung, country:south korea, company:pride, stateorcounty:the, region:gulf of mexico
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    Stratic Energy commences drilling on Bugle North

    Stratic Energy Corporation announced that operator Nexen spudded the 15/23d-15 well on the boundary between blocks 15/23c and 15/23d on 22 February, 2010 ...
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    Published: 2/23/2010   Posted in: North Sea & Western Europe, Drilling & Completions, Digest
    Tags: company:nexen, company:stratic energy corporation, fieldterminology:oil exploration
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    Momentum receives jackup contract

    Dragon Oil has awarded a contract to the Momentum Group - and its consortium partners Yantai Raffles Offshore China and TSC Offshore China - for the lease and management of one newbuild jackup ...
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    Published: 2/17/2010   Posted in: China & North Pacific, Drilling & Completions, Features
    Tags: company:goldman, geographicfeature:caspian sea, region:middle east, country:turkmenistan, country:china, person:trevor demara, person:yantai, company:famp;g
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