Recent enhancements in relief well technology enable operators to drill into prolific reservoirs while maintaining a single relief well contingency plan. Blowout contingency planning is required by ...

Transocean Ltd.’s RIG semi-submersible drilling rig, Transocean Barents, is making its way to the Neptun Deep project for a 10-well drilling mission, marking a significant phase in Romania’s offshore ...

Petrobras PBR, Brazil's largest state-owned oil and gas company, has made a significant decision to pause its drilling activities in the Foz do Amazonas Basin following a fluid leak that occurred at ...

Italian energy giant Eni has extended its use of a premium shallow-water jack-up drilling rig in Mexico and has remaining ...

Newport Beach officials have launched a 24/7 emergency drilling operation to repair an abandoned 1920s-era oil well that caused methane and oil to seep into a home on the Balboa Peninsula, prompting ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Minnesota's drought is having various impacts on businesses across the state. Many farmers have been relying on irrigation since early June to get their crops through the dry ...

Esgian's last roundup of the year for the Week 52 puts spotlight on new developments for Dolphin Drilling semisub, Seadrill drillships, as well as Shell’s plans for Australia and ONGC’s new tender for ...

Try as so many private and government organizations might, switching everywhere on Earth over to clean, renewable energy — including some strange sources being explored — is still a long way away.

Real-time streaming well data monitors drilling performance and aids drilling decisions using web-based drilling models to calculate and predict drilling parameters. These models improve rate of ...

Australian independent Buru Energy is gearing up for a two-well drilling campaign onshore Western Australia, for which it has secured a farm-in partner and lined up the drilling rig. Buru has signed a ...

In its weekly release, Baker Hughes Company BKR stated that the U.S. rig count was higher than the prior week’s figure. The rotary rig count, issued by BKR, is usually published in major newspapers ...