Stinger Reaches Milestone: 200 Ball Launches In Canada  |
3 February 2012 The Sure Drop tool holds incrementally sized balls designed to assist in horizontal multi-stage completions. The tool is positioned outside of the frac stream and can handle up to 27 balls whose diameter range from 0.75 inches (19 millimetres) to 4.75 inches (120 millimetres). |
| AFTI Gas Well Freeze-Up Prevention Technology Successful |
30 January 2012 Advanced Flow Technologies Inc. (AFTI) has announced its Watch-DOG technology for monitoring gas wells passed its first winter time test with flying colours. Watch-DOG is designed to monitor gas wells for freeze-ups, alerting producers with colour coded icons on a map when a well is in danger of freezing. |
| Wintershall Uses Packers Plus StageFRAC Technology In The North Sea |
25 January 2012 Packers Plus Energy Services Inc. has announced it has completed an openhole, multi-stage system in the North Sea 3.5 times faster than the traditional plug and gun method. |
| Innovative solutions of OAO TATNEFT |
24 January 2012 Stable crude oil and gas production with application of innovative technology concepts was one of the Company's main tasks in 2011. |
| JV PetroMonagas in Venezuela Plans to Boost Heavy Oil Production |
13 January 2012 PetroMonagas, a joint venture between TNK-BP (16.7%) and Venezuela’s national oil company PDVSA (83.3%), intends to increase its heavy oil production by 20% to 145,000 bpd in 2013. |
| Aker Solutions Grabs Drilling Riser Contract |
10 January 2012 Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering for the delivery of a deepwater drilling riser system to the DSME shipyard in South Korea. |
| Romar International awarded Hess contract |
6 January 2012 Oilfield service company ROMAR INTERNATIONAL has reported a contract award with Hess to support the decommissioning and abandonment of potentially 30 wells over the next four years. |
| Repsol to acquire Eurotek |
2 January 2012 Repsol has signed the deal on the acquisition of 100% of the Russian company Open Joint Stock Company Eurotek (Eurotek), which holds exploration and production licences in West Siberia. The transaction has been preapproved by the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation. |
| Subsea production system award to Aker Solutions |
30 December 2011 Aker Solutions has been awarded a job by Statoil for the engineering, procurement and construction of a subsea production system for the Svalin project on the Norwegian continental shelf. The contract value is approximately NOK 400 million. |
| President of Tatarstan Republic Made Himself Aware of New HF Technologies |
29 December 2011 TATNEFT Company is successfully introducing innovative technologies at its own fields. |
