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Challenging: Petronas employees on an oil rig at sea.
2014-09-21 08:07:30| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
A GROUP of geologists comb through an area in the middle of the sea carefully looking for signs of black gold. As they carry out intricate and complex tests on the layers of stone, earth and rock on the seabed, they discover signs of a possible oil reservoir.
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US rig count unchanged at 1,931
2014-09-19 22:56:36| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. says the number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. was unchanged this week, holding at 1,931. The Houston firm said Friday in its weekly report that 1,601 rigs were exploring for oil and 329 for gas.
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Keithville Adds Innovative New Rig from Schramm to Drill Rig Portfolio
2014-09-18 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
New Rig Will Allow for Faster, Safer and More Efficient Shale Drilling<br /> <br /> KEITHVILLE, La. – Keithville Well Drilling, a private, Louisiana-based drilling company, today announced it has purchased and accepted delivery of the Schramm T250XD a new, land-based rig designed specifically for shale drilling. The company plans to immediately utilize the rig in the Haynesville Shale of Northwest Louisiana and East Texas.<br /> <br /> "We are excited to begin using the T250XD rig, which ...This story is related to the following:Exploration Rigs |
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Keppel wins $227m jack up rig contract from Gulf Drilling International
2014-09-17 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Keppel Offshore & Marine's subsidiary Keppel FELS has won a $227m contract from Qatar's Gulf Drilling International (GDI) to construct a repeat high-specification KFELS B-class jack up rig.
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China rig finds gas after Vietnam sea standoff
2014-09-16 16:15:41| Energy - Topix.net
The Chinese exploration rig at the center of a tense maritime standoff with Vietnam earlier this year has made its first deep sea gas discovery in the politically volatile South China Sea, state media announced Tuesday. The discovery by China National Offshore Oil Corp. was made about a month after its rig withdrew in July from Vietnam's exclusive economic zone to far less-contested waters closer to China.
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