
Schlumberger, Halliburton and Baker Hughes awarded Bacalhau drilling and well services contracts
The total value of the three contracts for drilling and well services on the Bacalhau field in Brazil is estimated at US$455 million.
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The total value of the three contracts for drilling and well services on the Bacalhau field in Brazil is estimated at US$455 million.

Independent Oil and Gas has awarded the rig contract for its Core Project Phase 1 to a subsidiary of Noble Corp.

Dolphin Drilling has secured a new combined contract with Norwegian oil and gas operator DNO Norge AS.

Smith Bits, a Schlumberger company, has introduced the StrataBlade* concave diamond element bit.

The November/December issue of Oilfield Technology begins by reviewing the state of the North Sea. The issue then moves on to cover Drilling Technologies, Deepwater Operations, Flow Control, and more.

Wintershall Dea has begun drilling the first of six wells on the operated Nova field in the Norwegian North Sea.

Drilling at the Luiperd well has encountered 73 m of net gas condensate pay in well-developed good quality Lower Cretaceous reservoirs.

The estimate for the new oil discovery is between 0.5 and 3.2 million m3 of recoverable oil equivalent.

Well 7018/5-1 will be drilled from the West Hercules drilling facility.

Maersk Drilling has been awarded a three-well contract from Total E&P Angola.

PDC Energy successfully installed 22 248 ft of 5.5-in. x 20.00 ppf VA-EP-P110 VAtitan-TC in the Ferguson 23G-202 well located in the Wattenberg Field in the Denver-Julesburg Basin.

The Energy Enticer had a safe and successful mobilisation to Qatar Petroleum’s North Field in early September 2020.