Longer Laterals Push Connection Innovations Farther
Challenging reservoirs requiring longer laterals drive demand for improved semipremium connections.
Gen6 Proppants To Build New Frack Sand Mine Serving Haynesville Producers
The new Gen6 frack sand mine will be located in the core of the Haynesville and help provide area producers “significant time and cost savings on transport and logistics.”
Transocean Lands Equinor Drilling Contract Offshore Norway
The job entails drilling six wells total for the Tordis/Vigdis, Visund, Bauge and Snorre licenses on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, starting in summer 2019.
Proppants Panel - Sand & Seismic: Peter Duncan, MicroSeismic; Michael O'Neill, Preferred Sands (2018)
New regional sand mines promise lower cost proppant to fracture Eagle Ford wells while microseismic offers a look at how proppant behaves downhole. Here's more from the top execs at MicroSeismic and Preferred Sands.
Trump Administration Eases Rule On Methane Leaks On Public Land
Revisions to the Obama-era plan include changes to the percentage of methane that must be captured at drilling locations and measures on well completions and leak detections.
Aker Solutions Wins Major Services Contract In Brazil
Petrobras has awarded Aker Solutions a contract, on Sept. 18, to provide maintenance and modifications services for nine platforms at oil and gas fields in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil.
BHGE, Cognite, Framo Talk Selling Performance, Not Equipment
A shift in operator relationships with vendors in the offshore oil and gas industry is starting to emerge.
Weatherford CEO’s Rebound Plan Relies On Getting Smaller
Mark McCollum, the company’s third CEO in two years, thinks his push to simplify its sprawling supplier networks and corporate organization will help turn around one of the largest energy companies yet to emerge from the oil price collapse.
Colorado Initiative To Ban Drilling Costing Producers Billions
Colorado voters will decide on Nov. 6 whether to extend the state’s oil and gas setback requirement by approving Proposition 112, which an analyst described as ‘a widow-maker for the D-J Basin.’
Headlines: EPA Takes Aim At Obama-Era Methane Rule
Also this week, California’s plans for 100% carbon-free energy, U.S. dry natural gas production to reach an all-time high and updates on Hurricane Florence.