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 ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 18 (Shana) — Iran has opened its first oil industry museum in the southwestern city of Abadan. The museum is Iran’s oldest gas station that was established in Abadan in 1927 by British Petroleum. At that time it provided oil and gasoline for household and transportation sectors. It also served airplanes. Petroleum industry museums in Abadan are to ...

HOUSTON — Halliburton has signed a contract with Shell Iraq Petroleum Development to provide drilling services for sustained production at Shell’s Majnoon oil field in Southern Iraq. Under the contract, Halliburton will mobilize three rigs to drill development wells and carry out workover activities over the next two years. “We are pleased to be awarded this work and the opportunity ...

DAVOS, Switzerland (Bloomberg) — BP boss Bob Dudley is not yet ready to boost spending despite the rebound in oil prices. The company will keep capital expenditure below $17 billion this year and next, CEO Dudley said in a Bloomberg television interview in Davos, Switzerland. That’s $6 billion lower than 2014, when crude prices first started to slump, showing that ...

MILAN — Saipem has been awarded new contracts and the extension of pre-existing agreements in the onshore drillingsector in Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Bolivia and Argentina for a total value of $240 million. In the Middle East, a strategic area for the company, Saipem boosts its presence with a further important three-year extension to activities relating to six medium-sized onshore drilling ...

LONDON — Tullow Oil’s Erut-1 well in Block 13T, northern Kenya, has discovered a gross oil interval of 55 m with 25 m of net oil pay at a depth of 700 m. The overall oil column for the field is considered to be 100 m to 125 m. The objective of the well was to test a structural trap ...