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Because of the growing demand for directional drilling, also the use of coiled tubing service and latest technologies is increasing.This service needs engineering science, investment and employers’ support in case of salaries, contracts, and transparency in payments. By having the support of employers, contractors could supply better equipment and also train experienced personnel which will cause decreasing engineering related problems ...

HOUSTON — BP today announced that it has started up the Thunder Horse South Expansion project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, 11 months ahead of schedule and $150 million under budget. The project is expected to boost production at the facility by an estimated 50,000 boed gross, further increasing output at one of the largest oil fields in the ...

HOUSTON (Bloomberg) — Schlumberger is waiting for the rest of the world’s oil producers to catch up to the North American crude recovery. The world’s largest oilfield service provider sees international spending picking up in the second half of the year and into 2018, CEO Paal Kibsgaard told analysts and investors on an earnings conference call Friday. That will follow ...

Directional Drilling Services Development, Current Climate and an Eye to the Future Although it is over three decades since directional drilling has been applied in Iran drilling industry, but supplying main tools, equipment, spare parts & related software is highly dependent to foreign sources, and access to the newest and the most optimized technologies is so difficult and even impossible ...

The fact is that in the period of tough sanctions, according to the needs, the domestic producers became very active and have had acceptable growth in the quantitative dimension. If we look at the qualitative dimension, it must be said that the services of drilling fluid companies, with a view of the mandatory conditions in those days, were good, and ...

Regarding cement design, what domestic companies and research centers desire is maybe a development of standards for quality control methods for drilling cement additives under applicable conditions, which in turn can satisfy country’s oil and gas field needs and have desired quality indexes. Research institute of oil industry as an independent research institute and the right arm of Iran’s oil ...

As previously mentioned, in order to define desirable HSEQ situations, it is necessary to define an integrated management structure first so as to strengthen the safety space. In macro perspective, all the defined structures should be in harmony with the principles of HSE and quality management until every organ observes QC and HSE in the nature of its activity. The ...

LONDON (Bloomberg) — Representatives of OPEC and several other major oil producers will start arriving in Vienna on Friday for their first meeting to monitor compliance with an agreement to cut output. Ministers from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Algeria and Venezuela will meet counterparts from non-OPEC nations Russia and Oman to figure out ways to verify that the 24 signatories to ...

Drilling industry is one of the most important or maybe the most important part of exploration and production of oil and gas. Accomplishment of objectives of oil and gas production is not reachable without development and organizing of this industry. For investigation of active onshore and offshore rigs conditions of our country it is needed to assess from the prospect ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 17 (Shana) — First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri said one of the outcomes of implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is that Iran’s export of crude oil and gas condensate has reached its highest level since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. “In less than a year, Iran’s export of crude oil and gas condensate has reached ...