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NEWS: Regional
NEWS: International
New Abu Dhabi concessions
could be reservoir-specific
Maersk gets 40% of
Repsols Kurdistan block
Companies vying for a share of Abu Dhabis
energy concessions could be working
according to reservoir-specific terms
Maersk Oil gets approval for a non-operating
interest in two blocks in Kurdistan Region of Iraq
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Petrofac wins consultancy
work from Petronas
Petrofac-RNZ has been awarded a five-year
engineering services contract in Malaysia
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Total has acquired a 40 per cent interest in
two shale gas exploration licenses in the UK
16 Total is the first energy
major to frack in UK
FEATURES: FEATURES:
The energy industry may never see an oil
and gas boom such as that in East Africa
with its promise of handsome returns
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WHO DARES, WINS
Education and Training 24
Drilling
Claxton talks about the innovative solution it
provided for a drilling schedule change in Oman
Process Automation
Power Generation
Honeywell provides a case study of a
process migration project it successfully
completed for Dolphin Energy
Eaton reveals the tailored solutions
needed at each stage of the oil
and gas value chain to meet power
management challenges
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BP talk exclusively about what the British
oil giant is doing to attract the right people
in the region. Lukoil also explains how they
created a world class training centre in Iraq
A new industry taking shape
around natural gas
Pipeline Magazine speaks exclusively
to Emerson Process Managements
vice president of oil and gas, Larry
Irving, about why he thinks that a
new industry will take shape in the
region around natural gas
The latest news on the 11th Oil
Barons Charity Ball taking place on 28
th

February 2014
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW:
THE OIL BARONS CHARITY BALL:
GEO FOCUS: EAST AFRICA
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REGIONAL NEWSMAP
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[MOROCCO]
Longreach finds gas shows
Longreach Oil & Gas has found gas
shows with its first exploration well,
Koba-1, in the Sidi Moktar licence
onshore Morocco. In a statement,
Longreach said that the well had been
drilled to a Total Depth (TD) of 3,100
meters and that it had encountered
potential Lower Liassic sandstone
reservoir with gas shows of over 10 per
cent. Dennis Sharp, executive chairman,
commented: This is a positive start to
our operated exploration campaign in
the Essaouira Basin, onshore Morocco,
which is most encouraging. We are
evaluating all of the available data in
order to determine the testing program
for the well. We look forward to gaining
a fuller understanding of the result of
the Koba well. The Koba structure is
the first prospect to be drilled as part of
Longreachs exploration well programme.
[EGYPT]
Petroceltic lowers
2014 production
target to 20m bpd
Irish independent Petroceltic International has
forecasted that it will produce somewhere
between 20 and 22 million bpd in 2014,
considerably less than the 25.2 million bpd it
made in 2013 as part of its 2014 guidance. It
is thought the reduction is due to a slowdown
in drilling in Egypt due to budget constraints
stemming from delays in debt recovery from
the Egyptian government.
[LIBYA]
British energy worker murder
in Libya sends shockwaves
The brutal murder in late December, of a
British energy industry contractor and his
New Zealand partner on a beach 65 km
west of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, has sent
shockwaves across foreign companies
operating in the country. Purported pictures
posted online in the aftermath of the incident
which took place near the oil export terminal
complex of Mellitah, show that Mark De
Salis and Lynn Howie were having a picnic.
De Salis is said to have been working as a
power manager for First Engineering to bring
in power generators to the Libyan capital.
The incident calls into question the safety of
foreign workers employed in Libya.
[ALGERIA]
Endress+Hauser solidifies
UAE and Algeria presence
Endress+Hauser is aiming to open up
what it calls important growth markets
in the Middle East and Northern Africa by
establishing its own subsidiaries in the UAE
and Algeria. The two new sales centres
build upon the German firms existing
presence through local representative
Descon Automation Control Systems for
the UAE market and Symes, its long-time
representative in Algeria located in Annaba.
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[SAUDI ARABIA]
Larsen & Toubro
wins major Saudi
Aramco order
Indian EPC contractor Larsen & Toubro
(L&T) has won a major order from Saudi
Aramco to construct 55 km of 230kV
double circuit overhead transmission line
and underground cabling to meet future
power demand at the Berri oil field in
eastern part of Saudi Arabia. The project
will be completed in 26 months. The
project will see the replacement of the
existing 115kV electrical power supply
system with the new 230kV power system
at the Abu Ali Plants to overcome existing
electrical system deficiencies and to meet
the future electrical demand load required
by the Berri field to maintain production
at 250,000 bpd to support Karan and
Arabiyah fields.
[OMAN]
Oman Drydock
targets LNG
carrier and
jackup market
The Oman Drydock Company (ODC) has
outlined its plans to expand its capabilities
for the jackup drilling rig, FPSO vessels
and LNG carrier (LNGC) markets. ODC
marketing director, Johnny Woo said the
company has ambitious expansion plans for
the upcoming year with its ability to handle
all ship sizes. Our expansion into LNGC
will further be strengthened by our new
license to support the French engineering
firm Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT) which
specialises in cargo containment systems
for high-end liquefied natural gas carriers,
he said. ODC can provide repair and
conversion services to jack up drilling rigs,
drill ships and FPSOs.
[UAE]
Drydocks
to build
biggest ever
jackup rig
Drydocks World in Dubai has signed
an agreement with Drill One Capital for
building the Dubai Expo 2020 NS mega
jackup rig. Gusto MSC which is one of our
major partners in this project has designed
the CJ 80 rig and the rig will be the first
of this design to be built and will be the
largest jackup rig ever built. Designed to be
operated in harsh environments including
the Norwegian Sector of the North Sea at a
maximum water-depth of 175m with a 25m
air-gap, the rig is another ground-breaking
project among the growing portfolio of new
build projects for the offshore oil & gas
being implemented by Drydocks World.
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[KUWAIT]
AMEC wins
$418 million
KOC consultancy
contract
AMEC has been awarded a renewed
contract by the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC)
to provide project management consultancy
services for a portfolio of major upstream
projects in Kuwait. The five-year call-off
contract is worth approximately US$418
million. It follows the companys delivery
of two previous five-year contracts held
since 2004. Under the new contract,
AMEC will provide the same services as
the previous contracts, ranging from front
end engineering design (FEED), Project
Management Consultancy (PMC) services,
engineering, construction management and
training of Kuwaiti engineers.
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2014 has seen an eventful first month of the year
with partial sanctions being lifted in Iran and new
horizons opening in Abu Dhabi with the expiring of
the 75-year oil-production agreement in mid-January.
Both set of events will help shape the regions oil and
gas landscape. International oil and gas companies vying
for a share of Abu Dhabis major oil and gas concessions
could well find themselves working according to tighter
reservoir-specific terms and we cover this likelihood on
p10, with exclusive comments from the UAEs Minister
of Energy Suhail Mohamed Al-Mazrouie.
In late January, limited sanctions against Iran from
the US and EU were lifted after the International
Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that Iran had stuck
to its part of the landmark deal agreed in November
to curb its nuclear ambitions. Although Irans
petrochemical industry is set to benefit from the six month relief, it is the countrys strategic oil
and gas sector that Iran is hoping will woo western oil majors, including BP, Eni, Shell and Total,
who had a closed-door meeting on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
In this issue of Pipeline Magazine we hear exclusively from Emerson Process Managements
vice president of oil and gas, how the end of easy oil is making the industry look to new types of
techniques to deal with the more complex ways to extract oil and gas in the future. Larry Irving
touches on the important part that shale gas will play and delves into the US firms long experience
on the shale gas side.
Education and training within the regions hydrocarbon industry is proving a significant challenge for
everyone within the sector and we hear from BPs head of graduate resourcing and its VP for human
resources for the Middle East about what it is doing in Oman and the UAE to attract the right local
talent. We also hear exclusively from Lukoils head of professional development at West Qurna-2 in
Iraq about the success the Russian oil major has had since it established its own training centre in
the previously war-torn country in late 2012.
Finally, we put a big focus on East Africa as we investigate the high stakes on offer in the oil and
gas boom taking place in countries on the east coast of Africa, which is set to become a major
international player on the world energy stage.
Next month sees the much-anticipated Oil Barons Charity Ball return for its 11th edition which will
be staged on Friday 28
th
February at the Meydan Racecourse, Dubai.
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Editor
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VISITOR BREAKDOWN - SENIORITY
ADIPEC 2013 CONFERENCES
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17%
28%
31%
CEO / PRESIDENT /
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ENGINEER /
CONSULTANT /
OTHER
MANAGING DIRECTOR /
GENERAL MANAGER /
DIRECTOR
HEAD /
SUPERVISOR /
MANAGER
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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT /
COMMERCIAL
LEGAL / CONSULTANT / ADVISOR
HUMAN RESOURCE /
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E&P / DRILLING /
OPERATIONS / TECHNICAL
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
FACILITIES / EPC
/ MAINTENANCE
PURCHASING /
PROCUREMENT /
IMPORT & EXPORT
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NEWS IN BRIEF
DNO completes farm-in of
offshore Tunisian blocks
Norwegian oil and gas company, DNO
International, announced completion of
the farm-in by its wholly-owned subsidiary
DNO Tunisia AS to the Sfax Offshore
Exploration Permit and the Ras El Besh
Concession in Tunisia. The move follows
a previous announced agreement with
Eurogas International Inc. and Atlas
Petroleum Exploration Worldwide Ltd.
DNO Tunisia now holds an 87.5 per cent
participating (100 per cent paying) interest
in the permit and the concession. It now
also has assumed operatorship and a
significant share of the existing cost pool.

GE to provide six Mega-
Structure power modules
to ZADCO
GE Oil & Gas has received a contract to
provide a turnkey turbomachinery solution
to Petrofac Emirates for the Upper Zakum
UZ750 field in Abu Dhabi, developed by
ZADCO (Zakum Development Company).
The turbomachinery equipment will
be delivered in the form of massive,
standalone, plug-and-play modules,
which will ship intact from GEs advanced
construction facility in Avenza, Italy, to an
artificial island located 50 miles offshore
of Abu Dhabi. Each module will weigh
more than 1,500 tonnes and be 44m long,
20m wide and 24m high. These six mega
structures will serve as the housing in
which a turbogenerator train is located that
will provide electric power to ZADCOs
oil production facilities, including pumps
and gas compressors, also on the island.
The advanced module design was most
recently deployed during the construction
of five massive systems developed for
Australias Gorgon field, one of the largest
and most complex gas fields in the
world. Like those made for Gorgon, these
modules will be assembled, commissioned
and tested ahead of shipment to the UAE
so that they can be simply and quickly
installed and ready for operation.
International oil and gas companies
vying for a share of Abu Dhabis major
oil and gas concessions could likely find
themselves working according to tighter
reservoir-specific terms, according to a
prominent industry commentator.
The existing 75-year concession
dating back to January 11, 1939 that saw
multinationals BP, Shell, Total, ExxonMobil
and Portugals Partex Oil & Gas help state-run
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC)
steadily develop its output capacity and
technological expertise, expired on January 9.
My hunch is that in allowing the
concession to expire, the faction in SPC
[Supreme Petroleum Council] favouring to split
the concession up on more reservoir-specific
seems to have prevailed. If that is right, the
company mix is likely to change too, industry
analyst Samuel Ciszuk told Pipeline Magazine.
About 60 per cent of Abu Dhabis oil
output is derived from the concessions
owned by ADNOC subsidiary Abu Dhabi
Company for Onshore Operations (ADCO).
In an attempt to retain a toehold in the
major OPEC producer, BP, Shell, Total and
ExxonMobil are all thought to have said
that they will pay Abu Dhabi 11 cents more
per barrel over what the emirate currently
charges for its Murban grade crude.
Abu Dhabis crude output in December
was 2.76 million bpd or just over 9 per cent
of OPECs daily global oil supply.
The decision making process to award the
concessions continues to be opaque even if
you ask the countrys top energy official.
The ministry is not concerned about this
so we cannot talk about it, we cannot declare
anything, the UAEs Minister of Energy,
Suhail Mohammed Al-Mazrouei told Pipeline
Magazine on the exhibition floor of last
months World Future Energy Summit (WFES)
in Abu Dhabi.
Pressed further on his expectations for
awarding the concessions the minister said:
My hope is that its fair and we maintain
talking to companies and everyone is happy...
we allow enough time for the newcomers to
look and see and I think thats fair.
In announcing the expiry of the
concession, ADNOCs director-general,
Abdulla Nasser Al Suwaidi stressed that
ADCO would continue to operate the
concession areas on ADNOCs behalf.
Ciszuk, a senior adviser to the Swedish
Energy Industry who has closely followed the
MENA regions oil and gas industry especially
in his previous roles with oil and gas
consultancies KBC and IHS, believes that this
is very much a temporary move by the SPC.
In any case, the government of Abu Dhabi
has now gone almost as far as possible
in strengthening its hand ahead of new
negotiations and bidding, having deprived the
IOCs of their owner role. IOCs [are] needed
for the growth plans, but right now Abu
Dhabi can wait longer than the IOCs, which
will continue to play ball on existing ongoing
work not to burn any bridges at this point,
he explained via e-mail.
New Abu Dhabi concessions could be
more reservoir-specific
HE Suhail Mohamed Faraj Al-Mazrouei,
UAE Minister of Energy at WFES
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The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)
has approved Maersk Oils acquisition of
a 40 per cent non-operating interest in
the Piramagrun and Qala Dze Production
Sharing Contracts (PSC) from Repsol
Oriente Medio S.A.
The Spanish oil firm will continue to operate
exploration activities and also hold a 40 per
cent interest. The KRG will hold the remaining
20 per cent share of each block.
The Piramagrun and Qala Dze blocks are
located approximately 150 km east of Erbil, the
regional capital of Kurdistan and cover an area
of approximately 2,747 sq km. During 2012,
Repsol undertook a significant 2D seismic
acquisition programme which identified a
number of drilling targets. In November 2013
work commenced on the Zewe-1 exploration
well and drilling in the Qala Dze PSC is
expected to begin in the early part of 2014.
Jakob Thomasen, CEO of Maersk Oil said:
Being present and active in one of the worlds
most promising and prolific exploration basins
is a fundamental part of Maersk Oils strategy.
We are on a journey to increase entitlement
production to 400,000 barrels of oil per day
by 2020. We expect our position in Kurdistan
Region of Iraq to help us sustain the target
production level beyond 2020.
Maersk buys into Repsol in Kurdistan
NEWS IN BRIEF
Kurdistan is all set to begin pumping its
own oil to the world via a new pipeline by
the end of January, according to a recent
communiqu by the Kurdistan Regional
Governments (KRGs) Ministry of Ministry
of Natural Resources (MNR).
Shipment of the crude from Iraqs semi-
autonomous region will pass through pipelines
in Turkey to the countrys oil export terminals at
Ceyhan on the Mediterranean coast.
At the time of going to press, the ministry
anticipated that an initial shipment of two
million barrels of oil would take place at the
end of January followed by an increase to 4
and 6 million barrels by the end of February
and March respectively. The expectation is to
ramp this up steadily to 10-12 million barrels
by the end of December.
The beginning of January saw initial
quantities of crude oil produced from the Tawke
field begin to flow through Kurdistans new
pipeline system to Ceyhan. The ministry said
that crude oil from Taq-Taq and other producing
fields will soon be added to the export system.
In a bid to allay uncertainties from foreign
buyers who fear they may be crossing the
wishes of Baghdad, the MNR has said that
prospective buyers can lift the crude shipments
from Ceyhan under similar terms to those used
by Iraqs State Oil Marketing Organisation
(SOMO) for oil exports from Kirkuk.
The move was always bound to anger
Baghdad which maintains that the KRG is
essentially smuggling the oil without its
knowledge or blessing.
The procedure of the ministry of natural
resources of Kurdistan province is considered
as a violation to the Iraqi constitution related to
the Iraqi natural resources, Baghdad said.
The Economist Intelligence Units energy
analyst, Peter Kiernan told Pipeline Magazine
that: There is little Baghdad can do about
this, although it appears that Iraq will have
access to the revenue stream from KRG
oil exports, so in this sense the central
government of Iraq is not completely shut
out of the process. This is the only way
Turkey and the KRG will have a chance of
ensuring Iraqi acquiescence to closer energy
ties between Irbil and Ankara. Nevertheless,
Iraq will still maintain a level of wariness
about these closer ties.
Kurdistan to independently pump oil
Abu Dhabi extends Inpexs
Upper Zakum concession
Japans Inpex Corporation has
announced that the government of Abu
Dhabi has extended its concession for
the offshore Upper Zakum oilfield by
more than 15 years to December 31,
2041. The fiscal terms and conditions
on the concession for the Upper Zakum
Oilfield have also been revised, Inpex
said. Currently, the development work
is carried out using the artificial islands
whilst the production capacity is
targeted at 750,000 bpd. Inpex expects
that the extension of the concession
should contribute to the long term
stable supply of energy to Japan.
Mubadala increases position
in Malaysia
Mubadala Petroleum has signed an
agreement with Shell to swap equity
in two exploration blocks offshore
Malaysia. Under the agreement, starting
January 1, 2014 Mubadala Petroleum
will gain a 20 per cent interest in the
deepwater Block 2B while Shell will gain
a 20 per cent interest in Block SK320.
Deepwater Block 2B is operated by Shell,
Mubadala Petroleum operates Block
SK320. PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd is
a participant in both blocks. In addition,
the current exploration drilling campaign
in Block SK320 has yielded two new
gas discoveries, Pegaga and Sintok,
to add to the existing M5 discovery.
Algeria to double oil and gas
output in 10 years
Algeria is to double its oil and gas
production in a decade due to notable
exploration success in the past year
according to Youcef Yousfi, the countrys
energy minister. Algeria plans very
seriously to double its gas production,
AFP quoted him as saying. Yousfi also
said that shale gas would add to the
ambitious production target.
Seismic acquisition of the blocks
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UK based Hydraulic tools manufacturer
Hi-Force recently announced that it will be
opening a brand new workshop within its
Dammam operation in Saudi Arabia.
The launch of the facility, due for completion
in early 2014 combined with the extensive stock
holding within the country, allows Hi-Force to offer
its customers a one stop solution for all of their
hydraulic tool requirements. In addition to supply
of Hi-Force products, the announcement of a
workshop facility allows for the repair and testing
of products as well as hand torque wrench and
hydraulic torque wrench calibration services.
Complete with a good stock of commonly
used spare parts, as well as highly skilled
technicians, the Hi-Force workshop in Dammam
is able to offer a first class guaranteed repair
service for all Hi-Force products as well as most
international competitor brands.
Also housed within the 100 sqm facility is
an extensive rental fleet of hydraulic torque
wrenches and bolt tensioners, available on both
a short and long term basis. The rental fleet
offers customers an economical alternative
to purchasing capital intensive specialised
equipment at short notice, or can even
serve as a stop gap whilst having their own
equipment serviced or repaired. The rental fleet
also allows Hi-Force representatives to offer
onsite demonstrations to customers, providing
a brief training on the safe and proper use
of the equipment, as well as highlighting its
various superior features and capabilities.
Country manager, K. Bala said: Saudi
represents a huge market for both Hi-Force
products and services. With the additional
investment of a fully fitted workshop by our
business partners, MSS, Hi-Force is now armed
with providing customers a complete service
including supply, rental, repair, testing and onsite
services which will help to secure our position
within the market and hopefully increase our
business levels across the country.
ADMA-OPCO has signed an engineering,
procurement & construction (EPC) contract
with the National Petroleum Construction
Company (NPCC) worth US$885 million for
the Lower Zakum Field, offshore Abu Dhabi.
The Lower Zakum Field is one of the largest
oilfields in the world and NPCC has been
awarded the first phase of Lower Zakum oil
lines replacement project, which consists of
approximately 90 km of oil pipelines replacement
and associated wellhead towers modification.
The project is the third major EPC contract
awarded to NPCC by ADMAOPCO within the
last 12 months, the earlier being the Umm Lulu
Package 1 and Umm Lulu Package 2 projects.
ADMA-OPCO said in a statement that this
deal fits its strategy of replacing aged oil
pipelines in the existing offshore fields with the
objective of mitigating potential environmental
risks; maximising asset lifetime and sustaining
the oil production capacity.
Ali Al-Jarwan, ADMA-OPCO CEO commented:
Its our pleasure to have NPCC with us in
this highly significant project which requires
maximum attention in terms of quality and HSE.
The project is part of ADMA-OPCOs Lower
Zakum plus 100 mbd programme aimed at
enhancing the oil production capacity from
Lower Zakum Field, which is part of its overall
scheme to raise the companys oil production
from the current 600,000 bpd to around one
million bpd by 2020.
ADMA signs $885m EPC with NPCC
NEWS IN BRIEF
Hi-Force to open repair and
testing workshop in Dammam
Hi-Force workshop facility
Cepsa and Cosmo sign
strategic partnership
Japans Cosmo Oil and Spanish
oil company Cepsa have signed a
Memorandum of Agreement forging a
strategic cooperation in the oil and gas
sector, both in the UAE and globally. Under
the memorandum, Cepsa and Cosmo
will work together to identify and develop
mutually beneficial opportunities for
securing new concessions, promoting their
exploration and production businesses, and
exploring synergies and prospects across
their refining, marketing, petrochemical,
power, and renewable energy units.
First petchems shipment
from western Saudi port
Almajdouie Logistics together with its
sister company RPL (Rabigh Petrochemical
Logistics Company LLC) handled the first
export shipment of petrochemical products
through King Abdullah Port (KAP) for Rabigh
Refining and Petrochemical Company
(PetroRabigh) on January 5, 2014. KAP is
located at King Abdullah Economic City
(KAEC) in Rabigh on the western coast
of Saudi Arabia. The shipment represents
the first export operation of the King
Abdullah port. The cargo, which consists
of 54 containers of polymer material,
was shipped on board a carrier heading
to Singapore. The port is an important
infrastructure investment which is, among
other things, aligned with Saudi Arabias
strategy of developing downstream
industries so as to drive value and job
creation, commented Jarmo T. Kotilaine, a
regional analyst. Group president Abdullah
Almajdouie stated: The start of new port
will ease the congestion at Jeddah Port and
Jeddah City but we have long way to go.
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[PERU]
Repsol sheds
LNG assets,
sells to Shell
for $4.1bn
Repsol has
completed the sale of its liquefied
natural gas (LNG) assets with the
handover to Shell of assets in Peru
and Trinidad and Tobago. In October
2013, Repsol sold its stake in Spanish
firm Baha Bizkaia Electricidad (BBE)
to BP, which exercised a purchase
option over the asset. The deal gives
Shell an additional 7.2 million tonnes
per annum of directly managed LNG
volumes. It is expected to enhance
the Anglo-Dutch companys portfolio
with LNG being supplied in the
Atlantic from Trinidad & Tobago, and
in the Pacific from Peru.
INTERNATIONAL NEWSMAP
[GREENLAND]
Statoil buys
into new
Greenland
block
Statoil, along with
partners ConocoPhillips and Nunaoil,
has been awarded a block offshore
Greenlands northeast coast where
the Norwegian oil company will be
the operator. Awarded following the
East Greenland licence round, Block
6 is located in a frontier area offshore
Greenland which is geographically part
of North America but governed under
Danish authority. Statoil will hold 52.5
per cent, ConocoPhillips will have 35
per cent and Nunaoil will have 12.5 per
cent in the block. We recognise that
this is a challenging area, but it is also
potentially prospective. And we believe
that Arctic resources in the future will
become important to meeting the
worlds energy demand, said Runi M.
Hansen, Statoil country manager for
Greenland and the Faroes.
[BRAZIL]
Commercial declaration
made for offshore Brazil area
BG Group has confirmed that its
partner, Brazils state-run oil major
Petrobras - the operator of block
BM-S-9 in the pre-salt Santos Basin
- has submitted a Declaration of
Commerciality (DoC) to the Brazilian
National Agency of Petroleum,
Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP),
for the oil and gas accumulations
in the Carioca area, offshore Brazil.
As part of the DoC, the consortium
has suggested that the new field
be named Lapa. The Lapa field is
located approximately 270 km off
the coast of So Paulo state, in
water depths of around 2,140m.
[UK]
North Seas
Orca field
begins gas
production
RWE Dea UK has
announced start of production from the
Southern North Sea gas field Orca. The
operator is GDF Suez E&P Nederland B.V.,
with RWE Dea as partner. The Orca field
will be developed by drilling three wells in
total. The first two development wells have
been drilled and completed in 2013. The
third producer is currently being drilled and
is expected to be completed in February.
Orca is the fourth of our UK projects
coming on stream within only 1.5 years,
said Dirk Warzecha, COO of RWE Dea AG.
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[AZERBAIJAN]
KBR bags Shah Deniz
contract from BP
KBR has been
awarded a contract
by BP Exploration to
provide engineering
and procurement services for the Shah
Deniz Stage Two project in the Caspian Sea.
The field lies some 70 km offshore in the
Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea. The
contract is worth US$365 million and work
is thought to have begun in January and will
run through to 2018. The US firm will provide
engineering design and procurement support
services for an offshore complex consisting
of two bridge-linked fixed jacket platforms as
well as an onshore gas processing facility.
[REPUBLIC OF
CONGO]
Qatar Petroleum
joins Total in Congo
Qatar Petroleum
International (QPI) has
been given a 15 per
cent capital holding by Total in its Total E&P
Congo assets which are mainly offshore
the Republic of Congo in West Africa. The
deal follows the signing of a framework
agreement in early May. The US$1.6 billion
dollar increase of Total E&P Congos capital
will consolidate its financial capacity at a
time when it is progressing the development
of the Moho Nord deep offshore project.
[GABON]
OMV buys into offshore Gabon fields
OMV has signed binding farm-in agreements
with London-listed independent exploration firm
Ophir Energy offshore Gabon in West Africa.
The move, part of OMVs next step in increasing
its exploration business in Sub-Saharan Africa,
follows the companys acquisition of an interest
offshore Madagascar earlier in the year. OMV
CEO Gerhard Roiss said: It is part of OMVs
strategy to build up new exploration business in
the region of Sub-Saharan Africa. The first step
has been taken with the entry into Madagascar
which is now followed by a new exploration
venture in Gabon. These projects are the basis for
long-term growth in the region.
[AUSTRALIA]
Worlds first coal
seam gas sent to
Aussie LNG project
BG Group has announced
that the Queensland
Curtis LNG (QCLNG)
project has received first gas from the Surat
Basin coal seam gas fields in Australia the
worlds first coal seam gas to LNG project.
Delivery of first gas onto Curtis Island, where
the liquefaction terminals are located marks the
successful completion of a two-year task to lay
more than 46,000 lengths of one-metre diameter
steel pipe over 540 km. Arrival of first gas onto
the island enables commissioning work to begin
on the first of two LNG production trains being
developed by the group as part of the integrated
QCLNG project. This commissioning work is
expected to begin in the first quarter of 2014.
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NEWS: International
Total is first energy major to frack in UK
French oil major Total has acquired a 40 per
cent interest in two shale gas exploration
licences in the UK, making it the first major
energy company to invest in hydraulic
fracturing or fracking in the country.
The interests in which Total will be the
operator, are in Petroleum Exploration &
Development Licences 139 and 140 in the
Gainsborough Trough area of the East Midlands
region of the UK covering an area of 240 km2.
Patrice de Vivis, Totals senior vice president
for Northern Europe, said: This opportunity
is an important milestone for Total E&P UK
and opens a new chapter for the subsidiary
in a promising onshore play. The Group is
already involved in shale gas projects in the
US, Argentina, China, Australia and in Europe
in Poland and in Denmark, and will leverage its
expertise in this new venture in the UK.
On completion of the transaction, Totals
partners in the project will be GP Energy
Limited (a subsidiary of Dart Energy Europe)
(17.5 per cent), Egdon Resources UK Ltd (14.5
per cent), Island Gas Ltd (IGas) (14.5 per cent)
and eCorp Oil & Gas UK Ltd (13.5 per cent).
IGas will be the operator of the initial
exploration programme, with Total
subsequently taking over operatorship as the
project moves towards development.
The UK government has been quick to talk
up the economic benefits of fracking saying
that nearly US$2 billion could be pumped back
into the economy from these operations.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has been
on record saying: A key part of our long-term
economic plan to secure Britains future is to
back businesses with better infrastructure.
Thats why were going all out for shale.
It will mean more jobs and opportunities for
people, and economic security for our country.
The move by Total has sparked
environmental protests
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Petrofacs Malaysian based engineering services business; RNZ
Integrated (M) Sdn Bhd also known as Petrofac-RNZ, has been
awarded a five-year umbrella design and engineering services
contract in Malaysia by Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd (Petronas Carigali).
Under the scope of the competitively tendered contract, Petrofac-
RNZ will be providing a range of multi-discipline consultancy and
design services against specific scopes of work for Petronas
Carigalis assets in the region. The contract will be delivered by
the task-force teams from Petrofac-RNZs engineering centre in
Kuala Lumpur, whilst also being able to access the complementary
expertise from Petrofacs wider capability base.
Petrofac will provide a range of multi-discipline design services
Petrofac wins consultancy
work from Petronas
New oil and gas discoveries have been made by Statoil and its
partners in the North Sea.
Statoil, the operator on Block PL272, found gas in the Askja West
prospect and an oil discovery in the Askja East prospect offshore Norway.
The exploration wells 30/11-9 S and 30/11-9 A, drilled by the drilling
rig Ocean Vanguard, are located between the Oseberg and Frigg
fields and about 13 km southeast of the Statoil-operated Krafla/Krafla
West discoveries.
Statoil estimates the total volumes in Askja West and Askja East to be
in the range of 19 - 44 million barrels of recoverable oil equivalent.
Statoil makes new O&G finds
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INTERVIEW: EMERSON
T
he era of easy oil is behind us, notes
Irving, and the oil and gas industry
must look to new types of techniques,
which are more complex, to extract oil or
gas in the future.
Irving remarks: We have to do something
different.
The oil and gas industry is very important for
Emerson Process Management and in 2013 the
companys revenues were about US$8.5 billion,
of which oil and gas contributed around 42
per cent, making it by far the US rms largest
business segment.
The Middle East is paramount for us,
notes Irving. He also believes that the equation
on how to use elds and reservoirs in the
region will change in the future.
Middle East elds are very viable and there
is an abundance of oil. What we need to do
is change the techniques we use to extract it.
No longer will we be able to rely on the natural
pressure of the reservoir.
He argues that the industry must change the
technologies they use.
Natural gas
A real focus in the region revolves around the
moving of natural gas. Countries in the Middle
East are seriously investing in the infrastructure
needed to move and import natural gas in and
around the area.
Regasifcation is one such hot topic as the
region needs new multiple sources locally here
in places like the UAE, which you think would
have enough natural gas but they dont. So we
have new pipelines into the region and LNG
imports in the region, says Irving.
He feels this presents a huge opportunity
to be able to capture much of the natural gas
today that is either ared or reinjected. This
will allow the region to try and capitalise on
this and commercialise it.
According to Irving, Emerson has many
solutions for natural gas and the firm
provides multiple solutions to not only help
find natural gas but to help move it through
the pipelines and all the way through to the
point of consumption.
Natural gas is one of the largest growing
energy sources for the future. I see a whole
new industry forming around natural gas
opportunities as natural gas is going to be at the
forefront of generating their electricity, he says.
Shale gas experience
Shale gas is also playing an important role and
Emerson is doing a lot on the shale gas side.
Irving sees a shift coming from shale gas
development and drew an interesting contrast
between the conventional natural gas that is
seen in the Middle East, relative to what will
come based on Emersons shale gas experience.
Conventional reservoirs in the region
have seen very large volumes of natural gas
produced at a few wells. Producers have
been able to rely on traditional reservoirs
for a very long period of time. Shale is the
opposite, according to Irving.
You will need your economic return sorted out
in a two year period. The depletion rate in shale
year from year is very dramatic, he points out.
With shale you are in a perpetual drill cycle.
The only way to replace the dramatic depletion,
which could be as high as 70 per cent, is to drill
more wells. So it becomes a true manufacturing
process - you must be very good at doing the
same thing over and over again.
For the operator and producer, you will
need a repeatable engineering design and this
requires efciency and optimisation
Speed is of the essence, so speed to
drill, speed to bring online. These are the
main differences between conventional and
shale, he argues.
So instead of one unique highly engineered
well that you have today in the region you will
have multiple, repeatable wells in the future.
Emerson has automated thousands and
thousands of shale gas wells in the US.
There is no doubt that we have benets
from the shale revolution. It has been important
for North America to be able to provide greater
energy independence but eventually to become
an LNG exporter, which it will. This will impact
the world. It will have an effect on pricing
structures, remarks Irving.
Potential for shale in the region could be a
game changer, especially in Algeria. In Saudi
Arabia it is still very early days and the country
has around seven exploratory wells, but the
potential is there, according to Irving.
The development of shale gas in the region
ts quite nicely with the Middle East strategy to
use more natural gas to bring primary electricity
and to do it efciently, he rmly believes.
In conclusion Irving says: The next frontier
is to try and connect all the capabilities to the
business. How well we can connect the speed
of the operation to the market opportunities, that
are starting to move from long term contracts to
short term spot market opportunities.
Pipeline Magazine talks to Larry Irving, vice president of oil and gas
industry for Emerson Process Management about why he thinks that a new
industry will take shape around the region push for natural gas
NEW INDUSTRY TAKING SHAPE AROUND NATURAL GAS
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The energy industry may never see an oil and gas boom such as that in
east Africa with its promise of handsome returns. Emran Hussain finds
the stakes are high here, then again so are the rewards
EAST AFRICA
:
WHO DARES, WINS
In my opinion,
I think the east
coast of Africa is going to
become an enormous
international player
Charlie Benson, COO, Hayaat Group
In my opinion,
I think the east
coast of Africa is going to
become an enormous
international player
Charlie Benson, COO, Hayaat Group
T
he past few years have seen a urry of
activity among many companies in east
Africa some local but mostly foreign
drawn to the idyllic Indian Ocean shores of the
region which is some of the poorest anywhere
that continues to attract them.
But they come not in search of developing the
next tourist hotspot, as with much of the African
story in recent times, it is the vast oil and gas
potential lying beneath the soil and further
offshore east Africa.
In terms of hydrocarbons, the region should
be seen as part of a larger African narrative, the
continent produced some 12.4 per cent of the
worlds overall crude output in 2010, exported
20 per cent of global oil exports and 8.8 per
cent of the worlds proven oil reserves. All this
without even beginning to exploit the up and
coming east African region.
Natural gas deposits off the coast of east
Africa Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique put
Nigeria, Africas largest energy producer, quite
easily in the shade.
This promises to be a blessing for the region
where average annual incomes are below
US$600 and life expectancy is less than 60
years. Other hurdles - which vary from country
to country that have until now been the
reason for outside investors to shun the region
have been a poor business climate that has
tended to be inward-looking coupled with the
lack of good infrastructure and logistics.
However one thing any new entrant to Africa
should expect, is the unexpected, says Charlie
Benson chief operating ofcer of Abu Dhabi
based multi-sector investment rm Hayaat
Group, a company that has recently entered the
east African upstream energy industry through
a 10 per cent acquisition of Australian company
Swala Energy which operates there.
So many things can happensome of the
challenges we have faced revolve around logistical
challenges in the areas that we are operating in
but that breeds opportunities, he explains.
He believes that it is for this very fact that
many businesses choose not to invest in Africa
but in the same breath says that many others do
for precisely this reason it is an opportunists
market for sure.
Massive growth potential
The good news is that the region has huge
growth potential, countries like Kenya, Tanzania,
Mozambique and Uganda are home to some
of the worlds fastest-growing economies. All
of these countries have either discovered vast
deposits of oil and gas in the last few years,
for the time being it is the latter that is drawing
a huge amount of attention from the likes of
Statoil, Shell and ExxonMobil.
Tanzania which has east Africas second
biggest economy, is expected to see its gas
resources grow vefold, the countrys energy
and minerals ministry said last August. The
country which is most famous for being home
to Mount Kilimanjaro and its vast Serengeti
planes, is estimated to currently hold 43.1
trillion cubic feet (tcf) of recoverable natural gas.
This latest announcement predicts that in the
coming two years alone, Tanzanias gas reserves
could rise to 200 tcf.
With plans to drill 17 new wells in the current
scal year running from July 2013 to June 2014
and costing nearly $700 million, Tanzania is on
course to nd more high-impact gas nds.
Going further south in neighbouring
Mozambique, the rosy outlook continues and
on an even bigger scale. Mozambiques prolic
offshore Rovuma basin which borders Tanzania
is said to hold 200 tcf of gas and in 2013 was
the setting for six major deals worth $9.3 billion
by exploration and production companies from
major gas importing countries China and India.
Ticking clock for LNG exports
With such major gas nds in the region, east
Africa is being billed as the third-largest natural
gas exporter in the world, a rather exclusive club
that includes major gas exporting nations such
as Russia, Qatar, Australia and soon the United
States on the back of its shale gas boom.
With natural gas growing in importance as
part of the global energy mix well into the
foreseeable future, east Africas gas boom
seems quite timely especially as gas derived
from the region is expected to be competitively
priced compared to other regions.
Consultants at Wood Mackenzie in 2012
estimated that east African liqueed natural gas
destined for the hugely lucrative Asian market
would likely be priced at $7 per million British
thermal units (BTUs) in order to break even
compared to LNG from Australia which would
require $10 per million BTUs.
Now that east Africa is seeing its gas
producing potential grow beyond its wildest
expectations, the next logical step is to export
the product, and quickly.
Statoil and Britains gas explorer, BG Group
that have considerable acreage in Tanzanias
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offshore blocks have announced plans to build
a two-train LNG plant on the Tanzanian coast.
Italian oil and gas rm Eni and US independent
Anadarko Petroleum have similar plans to build
a LNG export facility in northern Mozambique.
However in both cases, the clock is
ticking as US shale gas exports are set to
begin in 2015 potentially causing a glut
in the already volatile global gas market,
driving down the price of the commodity.
Given that construction of these LNG
terminals which can usually take around
ve years has not even started, sufce to
say that any export of east African natural
gas in the future will begin at a lower than
expected price point.
Much like the rest of the continent, the
considerably higher logistics costs
compared to other more developed
parts of the world, are already
starting to make heads sweat.
If you look at where theyre
building the large LNG terminal
up in northern Mozambique
it is a relatively small town, right
up in the north of the country.
Just logistically investing the sums of money
that theyre talking about investing, depending
on who youre talking to, varies from anything
between $20 to $40 billion. Thats a huge
amount of challenges, Hayaat Groups Benson
tells Pipeline Magazine.
Benson does not rule out that
the challenging onshore logistical
landscape is a key reason why much
of the hydrocarbon nds in east
Africa have been offshore.
Youre carving through roads
for seismic [equipment], youre
having to cut through bush and
go into areas that are very
difcult to get the seismic
and drilling equipment into.
Whether thats the sole
reason, Im not
sure, he says, I
think its possibly
part of it.
Although
he concedes
that as his
company is
not directly involved in upstream activities, it
is hard to say.
Kenya oil boom
Kenyas success in east Africas hydrocarbon
bonanza has been mainly in signicant crude oil
discoveries allowing many industry watchers to
speculate an entry of the oil majors in this part
of the world.
Two new onshore discoveries for Africa-
focused UK oil and gas exploration company,
Tullow Oil in mid January, brought the revised
total of its discovered resources in that particular
block to 600 million barrels (mmbo). At the time
of this announcement, the company said that
reserves in its 10BB Block in the north of the
country could be in excess of 1 billion barrels.
Whats more, each of Tullows seven wells
drilled at the block thus far have resulted in
discoveries.
Exploration results to date from the rst
basin, amongst a chain of basins, have proven
that Tullows onshore acreage in northern Kenya
has the potential to become a signicant new
hydrocarbon province, said Angus McCoss,
Exploration director, Tullow Oil.
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The programme of over 20 wells we have
planned across our licences over the next
twenty four months should materially add to
the 600 mmbo discovered to date through
a combination of exploration and appraisal.
With up to five other analogous basins being
tested during this programme, Tullow has the
opportunity to increase Kenyas resources
significantly beyond todays estimates.
His colleague and chief operating
officer, Paul McDade said: The results to
date are extremely positive for achieving
a commercial development from the
discoveries made in this basin. There is
clearly scope for the development to be
expanded if there is further exploration
success in other basins.
Enormous international player
In my opinion, I think the east coast of Africa is
going to become an enormous international player-
and it already has but in the fullness of time it
will become an international player within the gas
production market and hopefully the oil production
market without a shadow of a doubt, says Benson.
There is every indication that relatively small
energy players like Hayaat Group and Swala
Energy have just as much to gain as their local
counterparts and bigger international explorers
in east Africa. The international energy industry
may perhaps not see an energy boom such
as east Africa with its promise to handsomely
reward any company small or large, ever again
the stakes are high here but then again so
are the rewards.
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BG Group is one of the leaders in east Africas offshore fields
Mauritius has taken significant steps
towards establishing itself as a centre for
Africa related international arbitration, and
the Mauritian government has repeatedly
demonstrated its commitment to achieving
this aim. This process began with the
adoption of the Mauritian International
Arbitration Act in 2008, which was
based on the UNCITRAL (United Nations
Commission on International Trade
Law) model arbitration law and thus in
conformity with international norms.
The Mauritian courts have a reputation for
impartiality and are generally regarded as being
supportive of arbitration, particularly since the
Act came into force. Mauritius is a member of
the New York Convention, and has a number of
bilateral investment treaties in place. Its status
as a regional offshore financial centre potentially
also simplifies enforcement of arbitral awards, as
companies will frequently hold assets in Mauritius.
African arbitration has, with the exception
of some West African OHADA arbitration,
generally been handled by the leading
international arbitration centres in London,
Paris and Singapore, and there appears to be
a clear demand for a regional arbitration hub.
Mauritius role as a major offshore jurisdiction
militates in its favour in this regard, and South
Africas relative underdevelopment as an
arbitration centre, together with its recent
revocation of many of its bilateral investment
treaties, may also help to make Mauritius the
most likely candidate for this role.
Key features of the Act include:
a provision giving defaull jurisdiclion
over appointments of arbitrators and
administrative matters to the Permanent
Court of Arbitration;
provisions expressly pernilling foreign
lawyers to act as both counsel and
arbitrators in Mauritius;
MAURITIUS TO BE
REGIONAL ARBITRATION
CENTRE FOR AFRICA
AFRICA OIL EXPORT DESTINATION 2007
ASIA IS A GROWING DESTINATION FOR AFRICAN OIL
AFRICA OIL EXPORT DESTINATION 2011
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Pipeline Magazine speaks to Lyle Andrews, head of graduate resourcing,
international locations at BP and Anand RV, vice president for human resources
for BPs Middle East and India operations about what one of the worlds largest oil
companies is doing to attract the right people in the Middle East
ATTRACTING THE RIGHT TALENT
T
he oil and gas industry is facing
a growing dilemma of how to
ensure that the next generation
of engineers are nurtured properly
and brought into an industry bracing
for the departure of a great number of
older engineers. This is known as the
great crew change and international
oil companies have recognised the
increasing cost of trying to deal with the
implications of the change.
BP is very aware of this and Andrews
feels: that the great crew change is very
important but there is a debate on how
much of an effect this will really have.
The main focus should be on nurturing
local talent as the days of over reliance on
expatriate expertise are coming to an end
and BP believes that companies need to
ensure they have robust procedures in place.
Andrews adds:I think for us at BP
there are resourcing needs in a number of
locations we operate in and the best way to
build up capability, regardless of the impact
of the great crew change, is to intervene in
the schools through improving educational
standards, encouraging people to take
the appropriate studies and then making
sure there are actual jobs and training
opportunities available within the industry.
This is why BP puts a lot of emphasise on
its graduate programme and over the last
four to five years has dramatically increased
the global number of graduates it takes in.
We are currently at a fairly stable 900
graduates per year. We try very hard to have
a top notch graduate programme that makes
sure we are getting the right intake that
supports our future needs, but also helps
us to grow the national capabilities of the
countrys youth, explains Andrews.
Historically, BP has found that it takes 15
years to develop a graduate to a level where they
are fully autonomous in their work. What BP is
trying to do through a more systematic approach
to training and development, is to compress the
time to say 10 years, Anand reveals.
We have launched a programme called
eXcellence, which is a very structured
development process that takes someone
through the rst 10 years of their career, he says.
The programme was launched around three
years ago and is now gaining momentum as it
takes a while within a large company to adopt
such a new approach.
Before this scheme was launched,
graduates would nish our course and then it
would be left to chance, but now people can
roll off our graduate programme and go straight
into this eXcellence scheme.
This scheme is all about on-the-job
development; it is about what experiences
someone needs to round off their career. It is
not prescriptive, but offers a lot of exibility,
notes Anand.
Local push
BP is pushing its eXcellence programme
in the Middle East, as there is a lot of young
talent in the region. BPs scheme is a great
selling proposition and when any young
person joins the oil giant, they have got a
clear career trajectory to follow.
Nationalisation is a growing issue for
countries in the region and BP feels that
a push for more Omanis and Emiratis
in the workforce will help the region as
governments across the region continue to
push for a stronger national workforce.
Oman is a key target area for BP. The
British oil giant is relatively new in the
Sultanate, and despite having only been
there for five years, the company has already
built up a promising Omani workforce.
We have already achieved a 70 per cent
ratio of Omanis in our workforce, which
shows that we are committed to investing in
the people of Oman, notes Anand.
This has been achieved through a number
Anand RV, BP Middle East and India Lyle Andrews, BP
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of initiatives, including starting a graduate
development programme with universities in
Oman under which BP piloted a scholarship
programme to send a couple of Omanis to
the UK every year to study engineering.
Furthermore, BP will be sending some
Omanis overseas to get development
training in other BP locations. They will go
and spend a year working in the US or in the
UK to understand how to operate an oil and
gas facility, and then come back ready to
operate the facility in their own country.
To aid BPs expansion in Oman, the firm
has set up a technicians training centre in
Oman. Over the next five years BP hopes to
train up to 150 local Omani technicians.
The Omani engineers will spend one year
at this facility and then another year working
in the US or in the UK to understand how to
operate an oil and gas facility, before coming
back for some final on the job training,
Anand explains.
Andrews empathises that the only way to
do this successfully is to take a long term
approach and develop the talent.
We are focused on an engagement
strategy now, Andrews points out.
For example, at ADIPEC last November,
BP invited six top students from Omani
universities studying relevant disciplines
and brought them to the show, where
they visited an ADCO facility and attended
technical presentations.
This enabled us to show them how
exciting this industry can be and helped
bring their studies to life, notes Anand.
A
s the global oil & gas industry
continues to modernise
operations around the world,
there is a growing understanding of the
responsibility that companies have to
the communities in which they operate.
Indeed, public and political opinion
and simple good practice necessitate
that companies accept a level of social
responsibility to improve the lives of the
great numbers of people who are directly
affected by the operations they carry out.
At Lukoil, we believe that fulfilling that
responsibility gives us a social license to
operate, without which we would lose
credibility and trust.
Underlying this growing understanding is
an ever-growing challenge: finding qualified,
trained employees to work at development
projects. Fortunately, this challenge gives
Lukoil a clear opportunity to fulfil our social
contract. By providing cutting-edge training
to residents, we can create a forward-
looking and uniquely skilled workforce that
will support the communities and countries
in which we work for years to come.
This commitment is currently best
exemplified through our involvement in our
active project at West Qurna-2, in Iraq.
Production at West Qurna-2 is slated to begin
in the rst half of 2014, and it is expected to
be one of the highest-producing oilelds in the
Middle East. It will require a highly trained and
committed workforce to ensure its success,
safety and efciency. To meet that need, the
company has established a state-of-the-art
Training Centre at Basrah, Iraq.
The Training Centre, located in the North
Rumaila area in the Basrah Province, was
designed to train local Iraqi personnel
to work at West Qurna-2. The training
programme lasts eighteen months in a
modular-type structure. It includes all
required technical disciplines in theory and
practice to cover work at various facilities of
West Qurna-2 in the areas of production, oil
and gas treatment, electrical and mechanical
equipment operation, and more.
However, the programmes benets are
not limited to building technical, site-specic
expertise. The course aims to develop a
holistic set of abilities; professional training
that may not otherwise be available to
these people that will endure beyond one
particular project. To that end, the programme
includes industrial and occupational safety
courses, environmental protection courses,
labor protection and leadership development
training, and hands-on training.
The Training Centre, which was rst opened
in December 2012, includes nine classrooms,
six laboratories (including three computer labs
and three language laboratories for English
language studies), a library, technical support
ofce, training workshop, administration
facilities, and instructor premises. The Centre
was also designed with students lives in
mind, and thus goes beyond functional training
purposes; a cafeteria and recreation area are
on site, and a fully equipped medical station is
available to provide necessary services.
The Centre is large enough for up to 350
students, and over 500 students have already
participated. The rst group of 170 students
completed their training in the summer of
2013; a second group of 150 students will
graduate this summer, and another 200
students will start the course in March-April
2014. All are residents of the Basra province,
again showcasing Lukoils commitment to
training and employing local talent.
Approximately 80 Operators from the first
group of 170 also went on for an additional
three-month hands-on training programme in
Singapore on real live processing facilities,
where they fine-tuned their practical skills
in an active plant that was constructed
specifically to train these specialist-operators
of major petroleum chemistry works.
Following the completion of their training
in the Iraqi Training Centre, all specialists are
sent to various infrastructure facilities of the
West Qurna-2 eld, where, under the guidance
of experienced engineering and technical
personnel, they will participate in the project
facilities start-up and further operation.
CREATING A TRAINING CENTRE IN IRAQ
By Vladimir Spiridonov, head of professional development department of the
West Qurna-2 Project operated by Lukoil
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FEATURE: Drilling
In the oil and gas industry, drilling programmes are often subject to change
at very short notice which can present challenges to both field operators
and their service companies. Claxton has provided an innovative solution for
drilling schedule change at the West Bukha Field, Oman
INNOVATIVE SOLUTION FOR DRILLING
C
laxton feels it has devised an
innovative solution to the issue of
drilling-schedule changes that helped
a client in Oman to keep its programme on
track without compromising the preferred
well design.
DNO International ASA was drilling
offshore Oman when a short-notice change
in the drilling programme brought forward
the start of work on the West Bukha 4
well. The design for this well called for
the installation of four centralisers on the
conductor to provide structural integrity,
but only two were available at the time
of drilling. However, the schedule change
meant there was no time to order the
necessary additional platform centralisers
from Claxton before drilling began.
DNO could have opted not to install the
additional centralisers, but this was undesirable
owing to the fatigue damage that can result
from the movement of the conductor and
the damage to the platform guides that the
conductor repeatedly hitting them could cause.
Nick Dale, Claxtons business development
manager, Far East, explains: Usually, we
expect to install the platform centralisers at
the same time as the conductor system, but,
in this case we were unable to install a full
set, so we had to nd an alternative solution.
We suggested retrotting the additional
centralisers during drilling, as this would
enable the rig to move onto the well and start
operations while we designed and fabricated
the items in parallel.
Analysis of the well by Claxtons Acteon
sister company 2H Offshore had shown that
the conductor would require these additional
centralisers: one located approximately 10
metres subsea and the other in the splash zone.
Dale says, When faced with this kind of
problem, some operators develop their own
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in-house solutions. Unfortunately, these
may be simplistic or poorly engineered, and
can often corrode or fail quickly and thus
eventually require removal and replacement.
DNO decided to use our retrot solution
because it would deliver a well-engineered
design that could be installed off the critical
path to save both offshore rig time and costly
replacement in the longer term.
A comprehensive solution
Claxton in Dubai provided a complete packaged
solution, including platform and rig surveys;
design, analysis and fabrication of subsea and
surface retrot centralisers; and a full installation
package. Claxton also engaged and managed the
activities of third-party abseiling and diving teams
to assist with installation.
Mid-way through the drilling programme,
during drilling of the long 133/8-in. casing
section, there was sufcient space on the rig to
enable Claxton to mobilise the installation team,
abseilers and divers, and complete the subsea
installation of the centraliser with no adverse
effect on drilling operations.
Gordon Hunter, drilling manager, DNO
said, Claxton provided a seamless service
in terms of engineering, planning and nal
installation of the retrot centralisers. During
an intense period for well operations, the
Claxton team went about their business in a
safe and professional manner to install well-
engineered centralisers right rst time.
The system that Claxton supplied was a
31-inch conductor 40-inch conductor guide,
retrot, hinged centraliser complete with
polyurethane buffers, quick-release collapsible
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FEATURE: Drilling
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hinges and proled ns to enable the
centraliser to interface with the platform guide
funnels. The centraliser was fabricated from
AISI 4130 steel and had a corrosion-resistant,
thermally sprayed aluminium coating.
The time to completion, discounting
offshore delays, was approximately six
months. This included the three months from
initial discussions to contract award, one and
a half months of fabrication work, one and a
half months of planning, surveying and writing
procedures, and nally one week offshore to
complete the installation process.
Dale said, We strongly recommend that
clients should consider centralisation at an
early stage when planning new wells, but
retrot solutions like this one give the added
exibility to enable them to address fatigue
concerns on existing wells before damage
occurs and so minimise the risk of expensive
repair work. A retrot solution was perfect for
the project at West Bukha 4 where there was
insufcient time to fabricate the centralisers
and run them with the conductors.
Claxton has extensive experience of
modifying and retrotting centralisers, and
carries a broad range of proven designs.
This experience made it possible to take the
installation work off the critical path of the
DNO project, as Dale explains, We have
provided several styles of retrot centraliser
to clients worldwide. Centralisation is an area
that may be neglected during the planning
process for new wells, and ever-changing
drilling schedules may mean that we have to
react quickly to satisfy clients priorities.
The retrofit approach also provides
a valuable solution in cases where
components have reached the end of their
design life. Dale concludes, The ability
to devise and deliver solutions that meet
customers needs at all stages of a fields
life cycle is a key part of what we do. This is
a particularly important consideration when
the industry is seeking to extend the life
expectancy of infrastructure and assets.
One of the centralisers during installation
on the conductor
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T
he year-long process for Dolphin
Energy involved the migration
of Dolphin Energys system
architecture from 10 redundant servers, 37
C200 controllers and 37 operator stations
to Honeywells Experion R400. This
migration was done on process so as to
ensure the advantages of not upsetting
the process, no retraining, reduced
wastage and lower cost.
Dolphin Energy Limited began gas
production in July 2007. This unique strategic
energy initiative involves production and
processing of natural gas from Qatars
offshore North Field, and transportation of
the processed gas by subsea pipeline to the
UAE and Oman.
The overall investment in wells, sealines,
processing plant, export pipeline and
receiving facilities has made this one of
the largest energy-related ventures ever
undertaken in the Middle East.
Challenge
Dolphin Energys architecture posed a
unique challenge for on process system
migration. Dolphin Energy identified the
project as MASS.
The process control system included ve
separate areas to be addressed. Obsolescence
was a key driving inuence, with obsolete
server and station hardware platforms, out of
support Windows operating system software,
and Experion R210 that required upgrading.
Exisitng Pipelines
Dolphin Constructed Pipeline
DOLPHIN GAS PROJECT
Ras Laffan
Doha
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Taweelah
Dubai
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Jebel Ali
Fujairah
Maqta
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QATAR
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OMAN
Honeywell presents a case study about its successful completion
of a project, Migration of Automation Systems and Sub-systems
(MASS), with Dolphin Energy Limited
THE ART OF MIGRATING AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
FEATURE: Process Automation
The company was well aware of the
challenges and associated risk when changing
out signicant portions of the system.
Solution
Dolphin Energy evaluated On Process
Migration (OPM) as a way to manage the
transition to new hardware and software
based on the following advantages:
No process upset
No retraining
ncreased availabilily
Lower cosl/ less wasle
nproved funclionalily
Exlended producl life
To manage the migration, Dolphin Energy
created the MASS Team, with representation
from many areas of the organization.
Benefits
Dolphin Energy Limited identified multiple
areas of benefit that resulted from the
decision to migrate to Experion R400.
Some of the areas are:
Trending
Alarning
Faceplale
Safe View
Syslen Capacily
Hislorisalion Capabililies
The benefits derived from these
enhancements include:
ajor ease of use inprovenenls
ore powerful analysis fealures
ore flexible use in cusloner
displays
Results
The MASS Project team developed a set
of milestones to manage their challenging
project. By developing a comprehensive
plan and working within the plan guidelines,
the company was able to complete the
migration in 68 weeks.
Trending Enhancements
ajor ease of use inprovenenls
ore powerful analysis fealures
ore flexible use in cuslon displays
Safe View Enhancements
Screen Space There are a lolal of lwo
screens per station with resolutions of
1280 x 1024, giving a total usable space of
resolution 2048 x 1280.
The lop screen has dynanic behavior,
managing the following windows:
graphics, alarm summary, two trend
windows, and one group window.
The bollon screen nanages lhe
following windows: graphics window, four
faceplates, and one system display.
System Capacity Enhancements System
Capacily enhancenenls include lhe
following functional areas:
System Size Maximum server clusters
per system
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Method of Statement
Develop a comprehensive Method of
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the User Guide (EMUG). This Method of
Statement should be used in both the
Offline Development System (ODS) and
the live production system.
Task Risk Assessment (TRA)
Follow a methodology for risk assessment
with simple steps:
Dolphin Energy was able to use this
methodology to identify and rank more than
100 concerns during the project, identify
safeguards, and develop recommendations
to ensure the safe and successful conclusion
to the project.
Set up an Offline Development System
(ODS)
The ODS helped Dolphin Energy develop
improvement in OPM execution to
o Reduce the time of Dual Primary Mode
from 7 days to 72 hours, and
o Feduce nigralion line for OCD (ESTV, 2
ESC and 3 ESF lo one week by using
box by box replacement for
the ES-Fs.
Use Virlualisalion lo sinulale/virlualize
actual scenarios.
Virlualizalion helped lo sinulale lhe
actual system with limited hardware,
facilitated testing all possible scenarios,
and sinulaled FTDB, OPCs and 3rd parly
interfaces.
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DSA Maximum DSA connections per
server
Clusler Sizing -axinun CF9s per clusler
C300 - ncludes a nunber of CDA publish
out and subscribe capacity enhancements
ACE Maximum available memory
resources and nunber of OPC galeways
per ACE plalforn
F4 Maximum number of virtual
connunicalion relalionships per H1
elwork and CDA publish oul lolal
OPC Caleway - unber of OPC Caleways
per ACE server node
nlerClusler Caleway - unber of OPC
clients supported per inter-cluster gateway

Historization Capability Enhancements
Each online history le can hold up to 100,000
samples for each parameter, with the number
of snapshots and interval averages captured for
standard (maximum 10,000 point parameters)
fast (maximum 1,000 point parameters), and
Extended (maximum 5,000 point parameters.
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FEATURE: Power Generation
Gardiner Henderson director of oil and gas at power management
company Eaton, explains how working in partnership can help the
oil and gas industry de-risk by design
POWER MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES
P
ower management in the oil and
gas industry requires the highest
levels of engineering excellence and
expertise; operations are often located some
distance from national grid networks or in
hazardous, remote locations that can make
the distribution of reliable, efcient power a
complex and often dangerous task.
Upstream, changes in oil and gas recovery
are increasing opportunity for growth, as
well as potential risks to people and prot.
As exploration is conducted in ever more
difcult and dangerous environments, drilling
contractors are increasingly sensitive to
the reality that prots can disappear in a
moment as a result of injuries, operational
failure and downtime. Downstream,
increasing variability and changing regulatory
requirements drive optimisation of ageing and
new reneries, requiring systems integration
and planning for longer lifecycles, shorter
downtime and increased margins. To succeed
in these challenging environments, you need
single-stop, customised solutions, industry
tested engineering as well as deep design
expertise and innovation.
A tailored solution
Each stage of the oil and gas value chain
presents its own unique power management
challenges. In the tougher, more remote
recovery environments of upstream
operations, cost is rising inexorably as well
as risks to people and the environment. In
this context, the trend has been to de-man
using advanced remote monitoring systems
in order to reduce physical risks and offset a
growing shortage of expertise and rising costs.
Operators are also constantly looking for ways
to reduce capital expenditure and operating
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costs by using smaller and lighter equipment
on platforms coupled with energy efcient
solutions such as LED lighting.
Midstream, the trend is towards ever-larger
vessels with huge pressure requirements,
ensuring asset integrity in ageing pipelines,
tougher environmental scrutiny applied
to new pipeline certications and nally
increasing safety concerns with vessel, road
and rail distribution. This has led to the need
for solutions with comprehensive safety,
control and monitoring capabilities, together
with optimised maintenance with the
assurance of meeting all relevant regulatory
and technical standards.
Downstream, operators in this region
continue to upgrade existing reneries and
bring new ones online in order to process
changing crudes light sweet to heavy
sour all with a need for increased uptime.
Operators require solutions that can be
customised, on time and on budget, with the
ability to maximise production and minimise
unnecessary manning and downtime. There
is also a need for enhanced monitoring and
remote control to ensure safety, asset integrity
and environmental performance whilst
reducing equipment maintenance needs.
Working with one supplier that provides
electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power
management solutions enables customers
to simplify their supply chain, while working
with experts who understand their business
challenges. We often nd that we can bring a
new dimension of expertise to help master the
heavy power capabilities and safety systems
integral to uninterrupted operations in the
harshest environments and to the maximisation
of production and rening operations.
In addition, customisable solutions, which
can be retrotted to extend lifecycles and
meet changing regulatory and processing
requirements, are as a key strength in building
long-term relationships with customers.
Powering through innovation
Power generation and distribution goes
far beyond the ability to flip the switch.
Technology plays a vital role in ensuring that
power is used in the most effective and
efficient ways possible, helping operations
to perform to be very best of their ability.
Technology must focus on the ability
to solve customers toughest power
management challenges, and a culture of
collaboration means that innovations can
be taken from one industry and applied to
many others that face similar issues. The
oil and gas industry is no exception and we
find that many of our most innovative and
valuable products were first developed for
other applications, our heave compensation
technology, now used on offshore rigs, was
first developed for use in naval applications.
Above all else, these innovations must
enable customers to concentrate on
their day-to-day operations, safe in the
knowledge that their critical power systems
will run reliably, efficiently and safely.
Managing power whether electrical or
hydraulic - is a dangerous business, and
even more so when working in remote,
hazardous situations that the oil and gas
industry frequently has to deal with. Yet,
safety and efficient power can go hand-in-
hand; whether it be ensuring that remote
maintenance can be upheld, through
self-cleaning filters, or the installation of
products that absorb and dissipate thermal
loads related to even the most severe clutch
and brake operations, to advanced piping
and valves that ensure oil and gas recovery
in the safest but most proficient way.
And a number of innovations are
designed to identify potential problems
before they occur by combining remote
monitoring, with technology that encourages
lower maintenance-schedules as well as
solutions that can sense a potential fault
or risk before it occurs. For example, the
prevention of corrosion, a particularly
common concern for those working in high-
pressure environments, can have positive
maintenance, health and environmental
impacts on people and assets. Signal,
alarm and surveillance solutions operate
in extreme environments utilising a secure
technology that protects its network during
a disaster and reconfigures automatically
if a unit goes down, providing alerts and
messages that continue broadcasting
without interruption. The system can be
custom built from lightweight flameproof
horns to explosionproof relays and bells
to ensure the correct level of monitoring is
providing for the surrounding environment.
The oil and gas industry is one of the most
complex for the power industry, with the need
to provide solutions that accommodate remote,
hazardous locations, a high-pressure and
temperature industrial environments, and can
help facilitate complex power requirements.
This requires highly evolved technology
that can continually meet the demands of
the industry, while providing the necessary
risk-management and safety requirements to
ensure that businesses and their employees
can take on their daily work without worrying
about the power behind it.
Upstream,
changes in oil
and gas recovery are
increasing opportunity
for growth, as well as
potential risks to people
and profit
Gardiner Henderson, Eaton
T
he 11th Oil Barons Charity Ball is just
around the corner and this year looks
set to be bigger and better than ever
with increased investment and world class
entertainment. Presented by ADIPEC the event
takes place on Friday 28th February and is the
largest social event in the oil and gas calendar.
This year the event celebrates all things
James Bond. With representation from key
individuals and organisations it is the place
to network and be seen, whilst raising funds
for UAE based charity, The Friends of Cancer
Patients. There are numerous events that
recognise, award and celebrate achievements
across all industries in the world. With
oil and gas being the most important
contributor to the countrys economy it
merits acknowledgment and recognition
to its most important contributors. The Oil
Barons Charity Ball is an event which aims
to recognise precisely that. Since 2003, it has
been crowning a deserving candidate with the
title of Oil Baron. An Oil Baron is a tycoon in
the energy industry, an innovator whose pro-
active approach to business and community
has made a real difference.
The 2014 Oil Baron will be announced
by the event patron His Excellency Sheikh
Nahyan Mabarak Al Nahyan.
Whilst honouring the Oil Baron is an
important goal, giving back to the local
community is also high on the agenda, last year
alone AED 1.1 million was raised for the Friends
of Cancer Patients charity.
The 2014 show is expected to attract over
1,300 guests and will feature a silver service
dinner, unlimited drinks package, outstanding
dcor and production, luxury charity auction and
of course the much anticipated crowning of the
Oil Baron 2014.
Tables can be reserved online at
www.theoilbaronscharityball.com
ARE YOU GOING TO THE BALL?
Platinum selling soul artist Beverley
Knight, has been confirmed to perform
a high-octane set at The Oil Barons
Charity Ball 2014.
Beverley Knight has been one of the UKs
most consistent artists of the past 15 years,
scoring several top 10 albums, including the
platinum selling Voice: The Best Of Beverley
Knight. She has sold over a million albums
in the UK along the way, including four gold
albums. She has been awarded an MBE by
the Queen for her services to British Music
and for her charity work, won three MOBOs,
been nominated for Best Female at the Brit
Awards three times and been nominated for the
prestigious Mercury Music Prize twice.
BEVERLEY KNIGHT
SET TO SHINE
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Two new executive hires for
Deep Casing Tools
Deep Casing Tools
has appointed Jason
Henry (pictured) as
vice presidents
of Business
Development and to
further strengthening
its global team.
Henry has extensive
experience in the oil and gas industry, originally
joining Baker Hughes in 1986 with operational
and project management roles in Europe. Later,
he joined the Baker Hughes Global Leadership
group in Houston as Global Marketing and
Commercial Excellence director and then moved
to GE Oil & Gas as Global Sales director for the
Downhole Technology Division. Henry has an
Honours Bachelors Degree in Geology from the
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, a Masters
Degree (with Distinction) from the Department
of Mining and Mineral Engineering at Leeds
University and is Advanced Certified with the
Chartered Institute of Marketing. Deep Casing
Tools also hired Magnus Wardle as its VP of
Technology. He brings with him over 20 years
experience with Elmar, Schlumberger, PSL,
Halliburton Boots & Coots and most recently
Engineering director with Wireline Engineering.
Consulting guru joins Reliance board
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has appointed
Adil Zainulbhai as an independent director on
the board with immediate effect. With this
the board will expand to 14 members with
eight members being independent directors.
Zainulbhai, until recently the chairman of
McKinsey India, has spent 34 years consulting
with a variety of global and Indian corporations
and their boards. He has been very closely
associated with several government-sponsored
projects in areas like energy, urbanisation and
inclusive growth, apart from his keen interest
and efforts in community and social causes.
Zainulbhai grew up in Bombay and graduated
in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian
Institute of Technology. He also has an M.B.A.
from Harvard Business School.
Duma Energy gets CEO
Duma Energy Corp. has appointed Pasquale
V. Scaturro as CEO. Scaturro was previously
president and chief operating officer with
Hydrocarb Energy Corporation of Houston,
Texas. He has over 34 years in Domestic US
and worldwide exploration and development
of oil and gas. Dumas board has also
appointed Charles F. Dommer as president
and chief operating officer of the company.
Previously vice president of Exploration and
Development with Hydrocarb Energy Corp,
Dommer has over 36 years experience in
international oil and gas. Industry veterans
with comprehensive experience in all facets
of oil and gas exploration and development,
Scaturro and Dommer will be managing
negotiations for a corporate merger of
Duma Energy and Hydrocarb Energy. If
completed as expected, the new company
will include producing oil and gas assets in
the Domestic US, high potential exploration
concessions in Namibia and oil and gas field
services in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Wood Group appoints two presidents
Wood Group PSN
(WGPSN) has
appointed two new
presidents to lead
its Americas
business. Mitch
Fralick and John
Glithero (pictured)
have taken up
co-presidency of the companys largest
region from Derek Blackwood, who is
retiring. Responsible for WGPSNs regional
strategy, operations and functional delivery,
and all acquisitions and business integration
they will report directly to WGPSNs chief
executive, Robin Watson. Glithero and Fralick
were previously co-presidents of WGPSNs
US business. Both natives of Texas, Glithero
and Fralick have been part of the Wood Group
family since 2002 and 2008, respectively, and
have 60 years of combined experience in the
oil and gas industry. Glithero joined Wood
Group from Baker Energy in 2002 as
executive vice president for the US offshore
operations and maintenance business. Fralick
joined Wood Group in 2008 through the
acquisition of Producers Assistance
Corporation (PAC), a company he founded
and led as president. He was senior vice
president of onshore operations before being
appointed co-president for the US business,
alongside Glithero.
ABB makes North Asia appointment
ABB has appointed Claudio Facchin as
executive committee member responsible
for the Power Systems division. He succeeds
Brice Koch, who will leave ABB on January 15,
2014 after an orderly transition, as previously
announced. For the past four years, Facchin
has led ABBs business activities in the major
markets China, Japan and South Korea as
chairman and president, North Asia. During
this time, he delivered solid profitable growth
by penetrating existing and new customer
segments, and developing products tailored
to local market needs. A successor for his
role in Asia will be announced in due course.
Prior to moving to China in 2010, Facchin led
the global Substations systems business unit
in the Power Systems division from 2004 to
2009, and the global service unit in the power
business from 2002 to 2004.
McDermott names new
non-exec chairman
McDermott International has named D.
Bradley McWilliams as its non-executive
chairman of McDermotts board of directors
upon the retirement of Stephen M. Johnson
as McDermotts chairman of the board.
McWilliams will serve as non-executive
chairman through the companys annual
meeting on May 6, 2014. McWilliams has
served as a member of McDermotts board
of directors since 2003 and was appointed
as lead director in 2011. He is chairman of
the Finance Committee and serves on the
Audit Committee. McWilliams also serves as
a member of the board of directors of The
Babcock and Wilcox Company.
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TOOLS & TECHNOLOGY
Polaris Shipping Co., Ltd., Korea Midland
Power Co., Ltd., Hyundai Heavy Industries
(HHI), and Siemens Energy Solutions Ltd.
signed a Memorandum of Understanding
to develop the MOBILE POWERSHIP, an
integration of shipbuilding and power
generating technology in which a highly
efficient power generating facility will be
installed onto a FSRU (Floating Storage
Regasification Unit) for the very first time
in the world.
It is expected that the MOBILE
POWERSHIP will commence its operation
in December 2017 with a total investment
of US$940 million. When compared to
building a power plant on land, the model
will substantially reduce civil complaints as
it will not require a large amount of land.
In terms of power transmission, the
MOBILE POWERSHIP will utilise existing
cables so that sections subject to new
installation will be minimised, leading to
significant cost savings. Once the business
model is successfully launched in Korea, it is
anticipated to move overseas to selectively
target combined cycle power producing
markets where high yields can be generated.
This Powership integrates the LNG FSRU,
the model first designed and built by Hyundai,
with the top-of-the-line combined cycle
unit in the capacity of 880 MW, which will
give birth to an innovative naval architecture
through combination of shipbuilding and
plant engineering. We plan to target overseas
newbuild markets upon successful launch of
the project, a HHI statement read.
Ashtead Technology, has strengthened its
service offering with the verification of its
calibration facilities, demonstrating further
support capabilities to its customer base.
The calibration laboratory located in the
companys Aberdeen headquarters has
received Valeport calibration verification, making
it one of only a few UK companies to hold the
honour.The verification covers all conductivity,
temperature and depth (CTD) and sound
velocity products that Valeport manufactures.
Allan Pirie, Ashtead Technology CEO, said:
We are proud to announce the Valeport
verification of our calibration lab, which
represents tireless work from our calibration
manager and engineers, as the lab had to go
through thorough testing to meet rigorous
standards. Our calibration engineers have built
the lab from scratch and watched it grow from
strength to strength.
At Ashtead Technology, we are dedicated to
putting our customers first and providing the
service excellence that they have come to expect.
This verification is another testament to the
high levels of engineering and technical support
that we offer to our global customer base.
Ashtead gains lab recognition
MoU signed for first floating power plant
NEWS IN BRIEF
The Aberdeen calibration facilities of Ashtead
Schlumbergers next-gen
multiphase flowmeter
Schlumberger has released the
Vx Spectra surface multiphase
flowmeter, which is the latest
generation of multiphase flowmeters
for offshore and land applications.
The new multiphase flowmeter
enables operators to obtain flow
rate measurements in production
testing and permanent monitoring.
A precise production allocation
requires continuous and accurate
flow rate measurements to
better understand current and
future reservoir productivity,
said Sameh Hanna, president,
Schlumberger Testing Services.
Intergraph Smart 3D
2014 launched
Intergraph has launched Intergraph
Smart 3D 2014, its suite of industrial
design solutions consisting of
SmartPlant 3D, SmartMarine 3D and
SmartPlant 3D Materials Handling
Edition. Consolidated into a single
solution, the package aims to help
oil and gas companies and the
power industry model complex
structures and create automated
engineering deliverables. The
engineering application boasts
hundreds of enhancements and
several innovative capabilities to
further enhance user productivity.
Petrotechnics launches
Apple iOS software
Petrotechnics, has launched support
for Apple iOS Mobility for its Proscient
Operational Performance and Predictive
Risk software platform. Support for iPad
and iPhone devices allows frontline
operational staff to work in online or
offline mode to more efficiently manage
frontline processes such as isolations
management and gas test recording.
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Security software firm Magor Corporation
has announced the opening of its
office in Dubai during Intersec 2014, a
conference and exhibition that focuses on
products for the commercial security and
information security sectors.
Building upon a growing customer base in
the region, Magors cloud-based Aerus platform
is witnessing strong demand for security
applications because it provides the ability to
access security information sources, ranging
from video surveillance content to personal
camera feeds from the field, and bring them
into ultra-secure visual conversations that can
be launched at a moments notice.
As identified by InfoComm, the Middle Easts
market for audio-visual services is growing faster
than most other regions, a further reason for
Magors decision to develop a local presence now.
In addition to the significant increase in
interest for visual collaboration in the region,
we are excited by the pull we are experiencing
with Aerus in the homeland security and policing
sectors, said CEO Mike Pascoe. An office in
Dubai provides us the opportunity to bolster the
strong solutions provider partnerships we have
in the region, and to provide local sales support
for the increased demand we are seeing.
Siemens inaugurated its new Middle East
headquarters at Masdar City Abu Dhabis
low-carbon, sustainable city where
Siemens is an anchor tenant.
Designed by architects Sheppard Robson
International, the Siemens headquarters is
one of the most energy-efficient buildings in
the region. Its design, sustainable building
materials and energy-saving technologies
reduce energy consumption by almost 50 per
cent, compared to conventional buildings of
the same size.
The building has become a benchmark
for future projects in the Middle East and
beyond, due to the sustainability standards and
development methodology used in building it.
Raised in the air, the building provides a
generous, naturally shaded public space for
parts of Masdar City. Based on the concept of
a box within a box, the structure has a highly
insulated, airtight inner facade designed to
reduce thermal conductivity, and a lightweight
aluminium external shading system, which
minimises solar gain while maximising daylight
and views from the building.
The opening of the new Siemens regional
headquarters at Masdar City is testament to our
unwavering commitment to the UAE and the
Middle East, said Dietmar Siersdorfer, CEO of
Siemens Middle East and UAE. With our new
headquarters, we strive to serve our customers
even better and enrich our contribution to the
development of the regions youth and societies
to meet the needs of the future.
Siemens presence as an anchor tenant
marks a significant step forward in Masdar
Citys growth as a leading global model
of sustainable design and modern urban
planning, said HE Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber,
UAE Minister of State and CEO of Masdar,
Abu Dhabis renewable energy company. This
LEED Platinum certified building demonstrates
that resource efficiency can be cost competitive
in our market and represents the standard of
buildings that need to be more widely adopted
across the UAE and the region.
Siemens opens new Middle East HQ
Security software firm opens in Dubai
NEWS IN BRIEF
Siemens new HQ in Abu Dhabi
New survey partnership
announced
Sharjah-based offshore survey firm,
Horizon Survey Company and British
airborne survey solutions provider
Pelydryn Ltd have announced that
Horizon has acquired a controlling
interest in Pelydryn. The two companies
will retain their individual identities and
continue to operate independently.
Where beneficial, Horizon and Pelydryn
may combine services to provide their
clients with comprehensive marine and
airborne survey solutions. Horizon and
Pelydryn are represented worldwide
and this relationship capitalises on the
existing range of specialist services
that can be delivered which includes
marine survey and geotechnical
services and airborne bathymetric
and topographic LiDAR surveys.
O&G targeted by most
compact radar yet
SpotterRF has introduced its new C20
short-range wide area surveillance
radar. The Spotter C20 covers 360
degrees for less cost than any such
radar on the market. Award-winning
SpotterRF created the C20 in
response to customer and integrator
requests to reduce the complexity
of monitoring remote well sites such
as found in the petroleum industry.
The Spotter C20 provides remote oil
well sites with 360 degree, 120m
range, solar powered surveillance.
New Fluke ClirVu CV Series
IR Windows offered
More than 99 per cent of all arc flash
incidents occur when a panel door is
open, exposing workers to potentially
lethal amounts of energy. The new Fluke
ClirVu CV Series IR Windows eliminate
the need to open the panel door to
take infrared camera readings with an
installation time of five minutes or less.
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Project Update
Rig manufacturer Keppel FELS has set an
industry record by delivering the most number
of offshore rigs in a year by any company.
Marking its 21st new build offshore rig
delivery in 2013, Keppel FELS handed over the
KFELS B Class Jackup rig, ARABDRILL 60 to
the Arabian Drilling Company (ADC) five days
ahead of schedule and on budget.
ARABDRILL 60 will be ADCs third jackup
rig from Keppel FELS and has been chartered
to Saudi Aramco. The first of the two new
rigs, ARABDRILL 50, was delivered earlier
this year and is already working for Saudi
Aramco. ADC also owns ARABDRILL 30,
another KFELS B Class rig since 2009 and
the rig is operating for the Al-Khafji Joint
Operations (AGOC/KGOC).
Keppel FELS also previously delivered SAR
202, a KFELS Super B Class jackup for Saudi
Aramco. Three other rigs, AOD I, AOD II and
AOD III delivered to Asia Offshore Drilling this
year are also contracted to Saudi Aramco.
ARABDRILL 60 is the 51st KFELS B Class
rig delivered since 2002, and this class of rigs
makes up more than 30 per cent of the total
jackups completed globally since 2000.
The Hayaat Group, a private investment
company headquartered in Abu Dhabi with
a diverse business portfolio, has acquired
a 10 per cent share of East Africa-focused
explorer Swala Energy for US$3 million.
Swala Energy is a publicly traded oil and gas
exploration business quoted on the Australian
Stock Exchange, it has assets in Kenya and
Tanzania. The companys holdings are in the
East African Rift System (EARS) with a total net
land package in excess of 15,000 sq km. New
discoveries have already been announced in a
number of licences along this trend.
This acquisition, which is the Hayaat
Groups first such direct investment in oil
exploration is based on the companys deep
knowledge and understanding of East Africa,
and where the company has positioned
itself to take advantage of the regions
continued economic growth.
Hayaat Group invests in E. Africa firm
NEWS IN BRIEF
Keppel has delivered the most amount of offshore rigs in a year
Industry record for number of rigs
Chevron gets UK go-ahead
for Alder field
Chevron Corporations UK subsidiary,
Chevron North Sea Limited, has received
approval from the UK government to
proceed with the development of the
Alder field in the Central North Sea. The
project has a planned design capacity of
110 million cubic feet of natural gas and
14,000 barrels of condensate per day.
First production is expected in 2016. The
Alder Field development is an important
milestone in support of our strategic
plan to profitably grow production, said
Chevron vice chairman George Kirkland.

Lukoil strikes oil off
Ivory Coast
Lukoil Overseas has announced that it
has hit oil after completing drilling of its
first appraisal well at the Independence
field off Ivory Coast. The discovery took
place at a well in block CI-401, which
is located 30-40 km off the Ivory Coast
in the Tano oil and gas basin. The wells
depth is over 4,500m, while water depth
at the drilling site exceeds 1,600m.
The well has proven oil presence in
the Turonian sands of the oil and gas
condensate field of the Independence
structure (discovered in December 2011).
Lloyds and Senergy in new
EOR research partnership
A ground-breaking energy industry research
project aimed at addressing the key
challenge of EOR from reservoirs has been
launched. The US$5.7 million project is a
collaboration by Lloyds Register Energy,
Senergy, the Danish Technical University
and Welltec. It is being funded by the
Danish National Advanced Technology
Foundation and will focus on optimising
oil production from horizontal wells.
PREPARED BY: Ian Anderson, Lamprell Energy Ltd. www.ianderson@lamprell.com For updates, comments and corrections - Tel (Mob): 971 50 6463350
Rigs Update
COMPANY RIG TYPE MAX.WD MAX.DD OPERATOR LOCATION CONTRACT STATUS OP. STATUS TOP DRIVE
ABAN LLOYD ABAN 2 BETH.250MS 270 25000 CAIRN ENERGY INDIA RAVVA FIELD Q1/2014 DRILLING TDS 11 SA
ABAN LLOYD ABAN 3 (IDA) LeT 53SC 300 20000 ONGC INDIA (IOC) DRILLING TDS 11 SA
ABAN LLOYD ABAN 4 (HITDRILL 1) BMC 300IC 300 21000 ONGC INDIA Q1/2014 DRILLING CANRIG 1050E-2SP
ABAN LLOYD ABAN 5 F&G L 780 MOD 2. 300 25000 NIDC IRAN Q1/2014 DRILLING VARCO
ABAN LLOYD ABAN 6 JUBILEE CLASS 250 IOOC IRAN Q1/2014 DRILLING VARCO
ABAN LLOYD ABAN 7 (ROWAN TEX) LeT 52 250 20000 LIME PETROLEUM OMAN - BLOCK 50 2 WELLS DRILLING VARCO
ABAN LLOYD ABAN 8 BMC PACIFIC 375 375 35000 PETROPARS IRAN - SOUTH PARS 12. OPTIONS EXCERCISED DRILLING VARCO TDS 85A
ABAN LLOYD DEEP DRILLER 1 BAKER 375 PACIFIC 375 30000 PEMEX MEXICO Q3 - 2016 DRILLING VARCO HPS-800-E-DC-2S-SG
ABAN LLOYD DEEP DRILLER 2 KFELS MOD V B 350 35000 IRANIAN CONTRACT IRAN UNDER CONTRACT DRILLING VARCO HPS-1000-2E-AC-KT
ABAN LLOYD DEEP DRILLER 3 KFELS MOD V B 350 35000 PETRONASCARIGALI MALAYSIA Q4/2015 DRILLING VARCO HPS-1000-2E-AC-KT
ABAN LLOYD DEEP DRILLER 4 BAKER 375 PACIFIC 375 30000 IRANIAN CONTRACT IRAN UNDER CONTRACT DRILLING VARCO -HPS 800-E-DC-
ABAN LLOYD DEEP DRILLER 5 KFELS MOD V B 350 35000 (VIETNAM MARCH 14? SHARJAH .UAE LAMPRELL SHARJAH YARD REFURBISHMENT VARCO HPS-1000-2E-AC-KT
ABAN LLOYD DEEP DRILLER 6 KFELS MOD V B 350 35000 PETROPARS IRAN - SOUTH PARS 12. MAY 2014 DRILLING VARCO HPS-1000-2E-AC-KT
ABAN LLOYD DEEP DRILLER 7 BAKER 375PACIFIC 375 30000 PEMEX MEXICO DRILLING VARCO -HPS 800-E-DC-
ABAN LLOYD DEEP DRILLER 8 BAKER 375PACIFIC 375 30000 SHELL BRUNEI BRUNEI DRILLING VARCO - HPS 1000-2E-AC-KT
ADC ARABDRILL 17 LeT 82 SC 300 20000 ARAMCO KSA MAY 2014 + 1 DRILLING VARCO TDS -3
ADC ARABDRILL 20 MPSV (UTILITY) 135 N/A KJO AL KHAFJI , KSA ONGOING WORKING N/A
DELTA MARINE SERVICES DELTA 22 BMC 150 L/Q 200 N/A BUNDUQ OIL ASRY - BAHRAIN L/Q PLATFORM WORKING N/A
ADC ARABDRILL 8 BMC 150 150 20000 KJO AL KHAFJI , KSA Q4/2013 DRILLING VARCO TDS -3
ADC (EX BIMA) ARABDRILL 40 MSC 4 LEGS 160 N/A AL KHAFJI KSA QI/2016 NON DRILLING SUPPORT N/A
ADC ARABDRILL 50 KFELS MOD V B 300 30000 ARAMCO KSA DRILLING VARCO TDS 8-A
ADC ARABDRILL 60 KFELS B CLASS 400 35000 AL KHAFJI , KSA MOBILIZING VARCO TDS 8
ADC (WEST CERES) ARABDRILL 30 KFELS MOD V B 300 30000 KJO AL KHAFJI , KSA Q4/2013 (PLUS 1 YR OPTION) DRILLING VARCO TDS 8A
AMS/EZION TRANSOCEAN 136 F&G L780 MOD2 300 25000 SOLD TO ATLANTIC - EZION
AMS/EZION TIBERON 1 CFEM T-2600 C1 300 SOLD TO ATLANTIC - EZION CONVERT TO L/Q
AMS/EZION TIBERON 2 F&G L70 MOD 2 300 25000 SOLD TO ATLANTIC - EZION
AMS/EZION SHELF EXPLORER CFEM T-2005-C 300 MAERSK OIL DK. DENMARK SOLD TO ATLANTIC - EZION CONVERT TO L/Q
ANADARKO EPU AL MORJAN SELF.EL. (EPU) ANADARKO AL RAYAN - QATAR IN SERVICE N/A
ARAMCO SAR 201 (SAMDP3) BAKER 200 200 25000 ARAMCO KSA-TANAJIB ON CONTRACT ARAMCO DRILLING VARCO TDS -3
ARAMCO SAR 202 KFELS SUPER B 450 35000 ARAMCO KSA ON LOCATION DRILLING VARCO
COSL COSL CRAFT KFELS MOD V B 400 30000 GLOBAL PETROTEK IRAN END 2014 DRILLING NOV TDS - 8SA
COSL COSL FORCE BAKER PACIFIC 375 30000 GLOBAL PETROTEK IRAN END 2014 DRILLING NOV HPS 750-E-AC-SG
COSL COSL POWER BAKER 375 FREEDO 375 30000 PTTEP,THAILAND THAILAND Q3/2015 DRILLING VARCO HPS - 800
COSL COSL STRIKE KFELS MOD V B 400 30000 GLOBAL PETROTEK IRAN - DANA DRILLING END 2014 DRILLING NOV TDS - 8SA
COSL COSL SUPERIOR BAKER PACIFIC 375 30000 CNOOC QATAR Jul-14 DRILLING NOV HPS 750-E-AC-SG
EGYPTIAN DC EL QAHER 1 BAKER 375 PACIFIC 375 30000 PETROBEL EGYPT - MED DRILLING VARCO HPS 800
EGYPTIAN DC EL QAHER 2 BAKER 375 PACIFIC 375 30000 PETROBEL EGYPT - MED MAY 2014 DRILLING VARCO HPS 800
FORESIGHT DRILLING KAMOSE (FD 3) LEV.111C 300 20000 SOOROSH FIELD NO INFO DRILLING VARCO IDS
EGYPTIAN DC SENUSRET MODEC 200C-45 180 20000 ARAMCO KSA Jul-16 DRILLING VARCO TDS -3
EGYPTIAN DC SNEFERU (NEWBUILD) BAKER 375 375 30000 ARAMCO KSA AUG 2015 + I YEAR OPTION DRILLING NOV HPS 750-E-AC-SG
EGYPTIAN DC ZOSER HITACHI ZOSEN 250 20000 SUCO GULF SUEZ DRILLING VARCO TDS -3
ENSCO ENSCO 54 F&G L780 MOD2 300 25000 BRITISH GAS INDIA Apr-14 MOBILIZING VARCO TDS - 4H
ENSCO ENSCO 58 F&G L 780 MOD 2. 300 25000 ARAMCO KSA JAN.2015 DRILLING MH - DDM650C
ENSCO ENSCO 76 LeT S116C 300 25000 ARAMCO RED SEA Q2/ 2016 DRILLING VARCO TDS 8SA
ENSCO ENSCO 84 LeT 82 -SD-C 250 20000 ARAMCO KSA DRILLING VARCO TDS 4H
ENSCO ENSCO 88 Let 82 SD 250 20000 ARAMCO KSA Q2/ 2016 DRILLING VARCO TDS 4H
ENSCO ENSCO 91 HITACHI C-150 270 20000 ARAMCO KSA Q2/2015 DRILLING VARCO TDS-100
ENSCO ENSCO 94 HITACHI ZOSEN 250 20000 ARAMCO KSA Q2/2014 DRILLING VARCO TDS -4H
ENSCO ENSCO 96 HIT.ZOSEN C-250 250 25000 ARAMCO KSA NOV.2014 DRILLING VARCO TDS -3
ENSCO ENSCO 97 LeT 82 SCD 250 25000 ARAMCO KSA DRILLING VARCO TDS -3
EURASIA DRILLING CO. NEPTUNE LET 116E 350 30000 DRAGON OIL CASPIAN CASPIAN SEA DRILLING LEWCO 750 TON
EURASIA DRILLING CO. MERCURY LET 116E 350 30000 DRAGON OIL LAMPRELL HAMRIYAH UNDER CONSTRUCTION DELIVERY NOV.2014 LEWCO 750 TON
FRED OLSEN WINDCARRIER BOLD TERN NG 9000 145 NORTH SEA UNDER CONTRACT DELIVERY FEB. 2013
FRED OLSEN WINDCARRIER BRAVE TERN NG 9000 145 NORTH SEA UNDER CONTRACT DELIVERED OCT.2012
GLOBAL PETRO TECH GLOBAL PEARL LeT 82 SD - C 250 20000 NONE STACKED SHJ PORT GLOBAL PETRO TECH STACKED VARCO TDS 3H
GREAT OFFSHORE KEDARNATH LeT 84S 300 20000 ONGC INDIA UNDER CONTRACT DRILLING NO INFO
GREATSHIP GREATDRILL CHAARU LET SUPER 116E 350 30000 NEWBUILD LAMPRELL HAMRIYAH UNDER CONSTRUCTION DELIVERY Q3/2015 LEWCO 750 TON A/C DIRECT
GREAT SHIP GREATDRILL CHAAYA LET SUPER116E 350 30000 ONGC INDIA DELIVERED JAN.7TH. DRILLING LEWCO 750 TON A/C DIRECT
GREATSHIP CHETNA KFELS MOD V B 300 30000 BRITISH GAS INDIA DRILLING VARCO TDS 4H.
GULF DRILLING CO QATAR AL DOHA (GULF 1) MD -T-76J8 250 20000 QATAR PETROLEUM DOHA JUNE 2018 DRILLING VARCO TDS 4
GULF DRILLING CO QATAR AL KHOR (GULF 4) KFELS MOD V B 300 30000 SHELL QATAR QATAR - BLOCK D Apr-15 DRILLING VARCO TDS 8
GULF DRILLING CO QATAR AL RAYAN (GULF 2) F&G L780 MOD2 300 25000 OXY QATAR IDD EL SHARGI RO6 MARCH 2015 DRILLING VARCO TDS 4.
GULF DRILLING CO QATAR AL WAJBAH (GULF 3) LET 82 IC 275 25000 OXY QATAR ISS-34B IDD EL SHARGI MAY 2015 DRILLING VARCO TDS 4.
GULF DRILLING CO QATAR AL ZUBARAH (GULF 5) KFELS MOD V B 300 30000 QATAR PETROLEUM QATAR Q1/2018 DRILLING VARCO TDS 8
GULF DRILLING CO QATAR AL JASSRA PACIFIC 400 CLASS 400 30000 MAERSK OIL QATAR AL SHAHEEN FIELD JUNE 2016 DRILLING
GULF DRILLING CO QATAR ZIKREET (ENSCO 95) HIT.ZOSEN C-250 250 25000 RAS GAS L/Q JOB QATAR JUNE 2018 L/Q RIG VARCO TDS 4-H
GULF DRILLING CO QATAR VICKSBURG LeT 116C 300 25000 OXY, QATAR. NKOM YARD, DOHA 2019 YARDWORKS VARCO TDS 4S
GULF PETROLEUM INVEST. TRANSOCEAN NORDIC CFEM-T-2601-C 300 25000 NONE UAE WATERS UPGRADE AWAITED STACKED
HARRINGTON WEST JANUS GUSTO(FEMCO) 330 30000 HAMRIYAH PORT DOCKED HAMRIYAH MOBILIZING
HALLWORTHY (FORESIGHT) FORESIGHT D.5. (144) FELS 160 12000 IOOC IRAN DRILLING NO
HALLWORTHY (FORESIGHT) FORESIGHT D.7 LeT 116C 350 20000 NONE STACKED MIDDLEEAST YARDWORKS VARCO TDS 4H.
HERCULES DRILLING HERCULES 170 SONAT-C 170 16000 ASRY YARD BAHRAIN STACKED VARCO TDS 3
HERCULES DRILLING AMBERJACK LIFTBOAT STANDBYE RAK N/A
HERCULES DRILLING HERCULES 156 BMC 200 IC 170 16000 ASRY YARD BAHRAIN STACKED VARCO TDS 1
HERCULES DRILLING HERCULES 261 LeT 82 - SD-C 250 25000 ARAMCO KSA Q4/2019 DRILLING VARCO TDS 3H
HERCULES DRILLING HERCULES 262 LeT 82 - SD-C 250 25000 ARAMCO KSA Q4/2019 DRILLING VARCO TDS 3H
HERCULES DRILLING HERCULES 266 LeT 82 - SD-C 250 25000 ARAMCO KSA UNTIL Q1/2016 DRILLING VARCO TDS-3
HERCULES DRILLING WHALESHARK LIFTBOAT ARAMCO KSA WORKING N/A
IOOC AL BORZ LeT42 250 20000 PEDCO ABUZAR - IRAN DRILLING
IOOC SHAHID REJAIA HITACHI ZOSEN-C 300 25000 IRAN - KISH STACKED TESCO 1350HP 500ELI
JAGSON DEEP SEA MATDRILL BMC 250M 250 20000 ONGC INDIA UNTIL 2014 DRILLING NO
JAGSON DEEPSEA FOSSIL F&G L780 MOD2 300 25000 ONGC INDIA DRILLING
JAGSON DEEPSEA FORTUNE F&G L780 MOD2 300 25000 ONGC INDIA MOBILIZING
JAGSON DEEPSEA TREASURE LEV 111C. 300 20000 ONGC INDIA AFTER YARD STAY REACTIVATION
KS ENERGY/ATLANTIC KS MEDSTAR 1. MODEC 200C-45 225 25000 PETROBEL EGYPT SUEZ DRILLING VARCO TDS -3
JINDAL PIPES JINDAL PIONEER LET SUPER 116E 350 30000 NEWBUILD LAMPRELL HAMRIYAH DELIVERY Q1/2015 VARCO TDS 8SA
JINDAL PIPES JINDAL STAR LET SUPER 116E 350 30000 ONGC INDIA CONTRACTED MOBILIZING VARCO TDS 8SA
MENA DRILL MENADRILL 2. F&G SUPER M2 300 30000 PEMEX MEXICO MOBILIZING TRIALS VARCO TDS 8SA
MILLENIUM OFFSHORE SERVICES AHMED LeT 40 L/Q 300 N/A GUPCO EGYPT SUEZ UNDER CONTRACT ACCOMODATION N/A
MILLENIUM OFFSHORE SERVICES DEEMA LeT 150 L/Q 170 N/A HYUNDAI /RAS GAS QATAR Q1/2014 ACCOMODATION N/A
MILLENIUM OFFSHORE SERVICES LEEN SE.UTILITY L/Q 140 N/A ZADCO ABU DHABI ACCOMODATION N/A
MILLENIUM OFFSHORE SERVICES MARINIA SE.UTILITY L/Q 160 N/A OXY QATAR QATAR ACCOMODATION N/A
MILLENIUM OFFSHORE SERVICES BURJ LeT Class 53 350 25000 AUSTRALIA, TIMOR AVAILABLE JAN 2015 ACCOMODATION N/A
MILLENIUM OFFSHORE SERVICES TRIDENT 1 SE.UTILITY L/Q 200 N/A ACCOMODATION N/A
NABORS NABORS 240 (OM 8) BMC 150-IC 160 20000 BUNDUQ OIL ABU DHABI (OS 11) FEB. 2014 DRILLING CANRIG 1050E 500T
NABORS NABORS 655 (143) FELS 160 12000 ARAMCO KSA CONTRACT TO 2015 DRILLING CANRIG 8035E
NABORS NABORS 656 (KEY VIC) LeT 80 250 25000 ARAMCO KSA Q1/2014 DRILLING CANRIG 1050E
NABORS NABORS 657 MITSUI F550 250 20000 ARAMCO KSA CONTRACT TO 2015 DRILLING NAT. PS 2-500
Working status of Jack-up rigs Middle East, India & Egypt
Rigs Update
NABORS NABORS 867 (145) FELS C 150 12000 NONE FOR SALE COLD STACKED VARCO TDS 3
NABORS (OCEAN WARWICK) NABORS 660 LEV 111 300 20000 ARAMCO KSA END 2013 DRILLING VARCO TDS-3
NDC AL BZOOM BMC 160-C 110 18000 ADMA-OPCO ABU DHABI ONGOING CONTRACT DRILLING LEWCO DDTD-500TONS
NDC AL GHALLAN LeT 82 S 150 20000 ZADCO UAE, ABU DHABI ONGOING CONTRACT DRILLING NO
NDC AL HAIL KFELS MOD V B 350 30000 ADMA-OPCO DUBAI DRY DOCKS 28 DAY YARD STAY YARDWORKS VARCO
NDC AL ITTIHAD LeT 82 S 150 20000 ADMA-OPCO UAE, ABU DHABI ONGOING CONTRACT DRILLING NO
NDC AL YASAT HITACHI ZOSEN-C 180 20000 ABU DHABI YARD UAE, ABU DHABI RIAP PROGRAM YARDWORKS NAT. PS 2-500
NDC BEYNOUNA BMC 160-C 150 18000 ZADCO UPPER ZAKUM AD. ONGOING CONTRACT DRILLING TESCO 500 HS
NDC BRAKAH BMC 150-C 150 18000 ADMA-OPCO ABU DHABI ONGOING CONTRACT DRILLING TESCO 1350HP 650ELI
NDC DELMA BMC 150-C 150 18000 ADMA-OPCO ABU DHABI ONGOING CONTRACT DRILLING NO
NDC DIYINA HITACHI ZOSEN-C 180 20000 ADMA-OPCO UPPER ZAKUM UZ 416 RIAP PLANNED DRILLING NAT. PS 2-500
NDC JUNANA HITACHI ZOSEN-S 150 20000 ZADCO ABU DHABI ONGOING CONTRACT DRILLING VARCO TDS-4
NDC AL GHWEIFAT BARGE ADMA-OPCO ABU DHABI ONGOING CONTRACT
NDC (RIG 1) NDC MAKHASIB LeT SUPER 116E 200 30000 ADMA-OPCO ABU DHABI DEC. 2015 DRILLING LEWCO 750 TON A/C DIRECT
NDC (RIG 2) NDC MUHAIYIMAT LeT SUPER 116E 200 30000 ADMA-OPCO ABU DHABI UNDER CONTRACT DRILLING LEWCO 750 TON A/C DIRECT
NDC (RIG 3) QUARNIN LeT SUPER 116E 200 30000 LAMPRELL HAMRIYAH NEWBUILD - UNDERWAY DELIVERY FEB.13TH. LEWCO 750 TON A/C DIRECT
NDC (RIG 4) MARAWAH LeT SUPER 116E 200 30000 LAMPRELL HAMRIYAH NEWBUILD - UNDERWAY DELIVERY Q2/2014 LEWCO 750 TON A/C DIRECT
NDC (RIG 5) BUTINAH LET SUPER 116E 200 30000 LAMPRELL HAMRIYAH NEWBUILD - UNDERWAY DELIVERY Q4/2014 LEWCO 750 TON A/C DIRECT
NDC (RIG 6) AL SHUWEHAT LET SUPER 116E 200 30000 LAMPRELL HAMRIYAH NEWBUILD - UNDERWAY DELIVERY Q1/2015 LEWCO 750 TON A/C DIRECT
NDC YEMILAH HITACHI ZOSEN-C 200 18000 ADMA-OPCO U.SHAIF US 262 RIAP PLANNED DRILLING TESCO 1350HP 650ELI
NIDC SHAHID MODARRES BETH.250C MS 210 20000 IOOC IRAN REPAIRS AT ISOICO YARD SHIPYARD NO
NIOC AL VAND (SCAN BAY) BETH.250C 250 20000 OYSTER GROUP DUBAI MARITIMECITY STACKED NO
NIOC IRAN KHAZAR F&G L780 MOD2 300 20000 PETRONAS IRAN NO NEWS ! DRILLING TESCO 500 EC
NOBLE ALAN HAY LEV.111C 300 25000 DUBAI PETROLEUM DUBAI Q4/2016 DRILLING VARCO TDS - 5H
NOBLE CHARLES COPELAND LeT 82 S-D-C 280 20000 ARAMCO KSA SEPT.2015 DRILLING VARCO TDS 4SH
NOBLE CHARLIE YESTER LeT 116C 300 25000 NONE LAMPRELL HAMRIYAH NONE STACKED VARCO TDS-3HE
NOBLE CHUCK SYRING LeT 82C 250 20000 HYUNDAI /RAS GAS QATAR/ BARZAN FEB.2014 ACCOMODATION VARCO TDS 5H
NOBLE DAVID TINSLEY MODEC 300C-38 300 25000 DNO (DUBAI) LAMPRELL HAMRIYAH YARDWORKS VARCO TDS - 5H
NOBLE DHABI 2 BMC 150 160 20000 ADOC ABU DHABI JULY 2015 DRILLING VARCO TDS - 3
NOBLE DICK FAVOR BMC -150 IC 150 20000 NDC (ADOC) ABU DHABI START NOV.13 FOR 2 YEARS MOBILIZING VARCO TDS 5H
NOBLE ED HOLT LEV.111C 300 25000 ONGC INDIA BOMBAY HIGH FEB.2015 DRILLING VARCO TDS 4SH
NOBLE GENE HOUSE MODEC 300C-38 300 25000 ARAMCO KSA ON CONTRACT DRILLING VARCO TDS 5H
NOBLE GEORGE MCLOUD F&G L780 MOD2 300 20000 TALISMAN MALAYSIA ON CONTRACT DRILLING VARCO - TDS 3-SH
NOBLE GUS ANDROES LEV.111C 300 30000 LAMPRELL HAMRIYAH YARD YARDWORKS NOV PS-2 750 A
NOBLE JIMMY PUCKETT F &G L780 MOD2 300 25000 RAS GAS QATAR BARZANFIELD WHP-2 AUG. 2014 DRILLING VARCO TDS-4SH
NOBLE JOE BEALL MODEC 300C-38 300 25000 ARAMCO KSA ON CONTRACT - DEC.2014 DRILLING NOV PS-2 750 A
NOBLE KENNETH DELANEY F &G L780 MOD2 300 25000 DEEPWATER DRILL. INDIA Mar-14 DRILLING VARCO TDS-3SH
NOBLE ROGER LEWIS F&G JU 2000E 400 30000 ARAMCO KSA Q2/2017 DRILLING NOV HYDRALIFT 750
NOBLE ROY RHODES LeT 116C 328 30000 ADMA OPCO ABU DHABI ADMA OPCO DRILLING NOV PS-2 750 A
NOBLE SCOTT MARKS F&G JU 2000E 400 30000 ARAMCO KSA Q2/2017 DRILLING NAT.HPS-750-E-AC
NOBLE MICK O'BRIAN F&G JU 3000N 400 30000 DPA OFFSHORE DUBAI ON CONTRACT DRILLING NOV PS2 750 A
NOBLE (ex panon) HARVEY DUHANEY LEV.111C 300 20000 LAMPRELL HAMRIYAH YARD YARDWORKS VARCO TDS - 5H
TWIN FOUNTAINS (KS) THULE POWER (AD19) BMC 200H 250 21000 INCOMPLETE HAMRIYAH PORT SOLD TO TWIN FOUNTAINS
ONGC SAGAR BHUSHAN DRILL DHIP 1000 20000 ONGC BOMBAY HIGH ONGOING CONTRACT DRILLING NO
ONGC SAGAR GAURAV ROBCO 350 300 20000 ONGC INDIA-BOMBAY HIGH, N-7 ONGOING CONTRACT DRILLING NO
ONGC SAGAR JYOTI HITACHI ZOSEN 300 20000 ONGC INDIA - TAPTI, SD6. ONGOING CONTRACT DRILLING NO
ONGC SAGAR KIRAN HITACHI K 1045 300 20000 ONGC INDIA-BOMBAY - NO ONGOING CONTRACT DRILLING NO
ONGC SAGAR PRAGATI CFEM - T- 2000C 300 20000 ONGC INDIA-BOMBAY H. CONVERSION YARD TO PRODUCTION NO
ONGC SAGAR RATNA HITACHI ZOSEN 300 20000 ONGC HINDUSTAN SHIPYARD YARDWORKS YARDWORKS NO
ONGC SAGAR SAMRAT OFFSHORE DESIGN S/P 250 18000 ONGC INDIA-BASSEIN, S-12 ONGOING CONTRACT DRILLING NO
ONGC SAGAR SHAKTI ROBCO 350 300 20000 ONGC INDIA-BOMBAY, W1-7 ONGOING CONTRACT DRILLING NO
ONGC SAGAR UDAY HITACHI K 1045 300 20000 ONGC L&T YARD OMAN YARD WORKS YARDWORKS NO
ONGC SAGAR WIJAY DRILL DHIP 2953 20000 ONGC INDIAN WATERS HOT STACKED STACKED NO
PEMSA HAFFAR 2. (HULL 108) F&G SUPER M2 300 30000 PEMEX LAMPRELL SHARJAH DELIVERED DRILLING VARCO TDS 8SA
PEMSA HAFFARI (Hull 106) F&G SUPER M2 300 30000 PEMEX DOS BOCAS, MEXICO DRILLING VARCO TDS 8SA
PETROGREEN ARMANATH F&G L780 MOD2 300 25000 IRAN ? NO INFO DRILLING
EZION NOAH'S ARK LeT 43 SC 300 20000 QATAR OPERATOR QATAR AFTER A/D YARD YARDWORKS TDS MS
PYRAMID DRILLING BENNEVIS ORION TYPE 250 20000 GUPCO GULF SUEZ DRILLING NO
QUEST ENERGY WAVE SIERRA Lev.MSC CJ 50 325 25000 NONE HAMRIYAH DOCK AVAILABLE Ex. WEST LARISSA VARCO TDS 8SA
ROWAN CO. INC. ARCH ROWAN LeT 116C 350 25000 ARAMCO KSA - ABU SAFAH JAN. 2015 DRILLING VARCO
ROWAN CO. INC. BOB KELLER LeT Tarzan Class 300 40000 ARAMCO KSA - HASBAH MAY 2024 DRILLING VARCO
ROWAN CO. INC. BOB PALMER LeT Tarzan Class 300 40000 ARAMCO KSA - HASBAH MAY 2014 DRILLING VARCO
ROWAN CO. INC. CHARLES ROWAN LeT 116C 300 25000 ARAMCO KSA - MANIFA JAN. 2015 DRILLING VARCO
ROWAN CO. INC. GILBERT ROWE LeT 116C 350 25000 ARAMCO KSA - SAFANIYA MARCH 2015 DRILLING VARCO TDS-4
ROWAN CO. INC. HANK BOSEWELL LeT Tarzan Class 300 40000 ARAMCO KSA - KARAN AUG.2014 DRILLING VARCO
ROWAN CO. INC. RALPH COFFMAN LeT Workhorse 400 35000 BRITISH GAS EGYPT Q2/2014 DRIILLING LEWCO 750 A/C DRIVE
ROWAN CO. INC. ROWAN CALIFORNIA LeT 116C 300 25000 MAERSK OIL QATAR Q3/2016 DRILLING VARCO
ROWAN CO. INC. ROWAN MIDDLETOWN LeT 116C 350 25000 ARAMCO KSA - SAFANIYA JAN. 2015 DRILLING VARCO
ROWAN CO. INC. ROWAN MISSISSIPPI LeT Workhorse 400 35000 ARAMCO KSA - ARABIYAH JANUARY 2014 DRILLING LEWCO 750 A/C DRIVE
TERRAS OFFSHORE (EZION) TERAS TITANIUM LeT 116C 350 25000 (EX PARIS) ABU DHABI YARD SOLD TO EZION YARDWORKS VARCO
ROWAN CO. INC. SCOOTER YEARGAIN LeT Tarzan Class 300 40000 ARAMCO KSA MAY 2014 DRILLING VARCO
SAGADRIL, INC. SAGADRIL 1 (HAK 9) MD J - 300E 300 20000 PARS - IRAN IRAN - SOUTH PARS Q1/2014 DRILLING VARCO TDS-3H
SAGADRIL, INC. SAGADRIL 2 (HAK 7) MD J - 300E 300 20000 PARS - IRAN IRAN - SOUTH PARS Q1/2014 DRILLING VARCO TDS-4 H
SAIPEM PERRO NEGRO 2 LeT 116C 300 21000 TOTAL ABU AL BKS ABU DHABI, UAE DEC.2014 DRILLING VARCO TDS-4
SAIPEM PERRO NEGRO 3 F &G L780 MOD2 300 20000 ADMA OPCO ABU DHABI, UAE Q2/2014 DRILLING VARCO TDS-3
SAIPEM PERRO NEGRO 4 LeT 150-44 150 16000 PETROBEL EGYPT NOV.2014 DRILLING NO
SAIPEM PERRO NEGRO 5 Lev. 111. 300 25000 ARAMCO KSA / BAHRAIN Q4 / 2014 DRILLING VARCO TDS-3
SAIPEM PERRO NEGRO 7 BMC PACIFIC CLASS 375 30000 ARAMCO KSA AUG.2014 DRILLING NAT HPS 750-E-AC SG 750K
SEADRILL AOD - 1 KFELS MOD VB 300 30000 ARAMCO KSA 3 YEARS DRILLING VARCO TDS 8SA
SEADRILL AOD - 2 KFELSMODVB 300 30000 ARAMCO KSA CONTRACT TO JUNE 2016 DRILLING VARCO TDS 8SA
SEADRILL AOD - 3 KFELS MOD VB 300 30000 ARAMCO KSA ON CONTRACT - 3 YEARS DRILLING VARCO TDS 8SA
SEADRILL WEST CALLISTO KFELS ModVB 300 30000 ARAMCO KSA ARAMCO Q3/2012 DRILLING VARCO TDS 8SA
SEADRILL WEST FREEDOM LeT SUPER 116E 350 30000 GDF SUEZ QATAR Q3/2013 DRILLING LEWCO 750 A/C DRIVE
SEADRILL WEST INTREPID LeT SUPER 116E 350 30000 EN RUTE S.AMERICA MOBILIZING LEWCO 750 A/C DRIVE
SEADRILL WEST MISCHIEF LeT SUPER 116E 350 30000 EN RUTE S.AMERICA MOBILIZING LEWCO 750 A/C DRIVE
SEADRILL WEST RESOLUTE LeT SUPER 116E 350 30000 KJO KSA OCTOBER 2015 + I YEAR OPT. DRILLING LEWCO 750 A/C DRIVE
SEADRILL WEST TRITON BMC 375 PACIFIC 375 30000 KHAFJI JOINT OPS. KSA JULY 2015 DRILLING VARCO TDS -8SA
SEADRILL WEST TUCANA JU 2000E 400 30000 PVEP - VIETNAM JURONG YARD DELIVERY Q3/2013 MOBILIZING
SEADRILL WEST CASTOR JU 2000E 400 30000 JURONG YARD SINGAPORE DELIVERY Q3/2013
SEADRILL WEST TELESTO JU 2000E 400 30000 PREMIER - VIETNAM DALIAN YARD DELIVERY Q3/2013 MOBILIZING
SEADRILL WEST OBERON JU 2000E 400 30000 DSIC DALIAN CHINA DELIVERY Q1/2013
SeaDrill/PT Apex RANI WORO BMC 300IC 320 20000 CRESCENT PET SHARJAH .UAE DRILLING VARCO TDS 3
SEAJACKS (LIFTBOATS) ZARATAN MSC NG-5500C 175 N/A SEAJACKS SAILED END MAY 2012 COMPLETED DELIVERED N/A
SHIV - VANI SHIVANI HERITAGE F&G L 780 MOD 2. 300 20000 GUPCO RAS GHARIB, SUEZGULF JUNE 2014 DRILLING VARCO BJ
SHELF DRILLING HIGH ISLAND 7 LET.82-SD-C 250 20000 QPD (AFTER YARD) EN ROUTE TO QATAR FROM APRIL 2014 MOBILIZING VARCO TDS 3H
SHELF DRILLING RIG 105 LeT 52-C 250 20000 PETROBEL GULF SUEZ MARCH 2014 DRILLING VARCO TDS-3
SHELF DRILLING RIG 124 MODEC 200C-45 250 20000 PETROBEL GULF SUEZ Jan-14 DRILLING NAT. PS 2-500
SHELF DRILLING RIG 141 LeT 82C 250 25000 GUPCO GULF SUEZ SEPT 2015 DRILLING NAT. PS 2-500
SHELF DRILLING C.E. THORNTON LeT 53 300 29000 ONGC INDIA DRILLING VARCO TDS 3
SHELF DRILLING TRANSOCEAN COMET SONAT-C 250 20000 PETRO GULF GULF SUEZ JAN.2014 DRILLING VARCO TDS 3
SHELF DRILLING F.G. McLINTOCK LeT 53C 300 29000 ONGC INDIA DRILLING VARCO TDS 3
SHELF DRILLING HIGH ISLAND 4 LeT 82-SD-C 280 20000 ARAMCO KSA Q4/2014 DRILLING NAT.PS 2-500
SHELF DRILLING HIGH ISLAND 9 LeT 82-SD-C 280 20000 ARAMCO KSA JAN./ 2015 DRILLING VARCO TDS 4-S
SHELF DRILLING HIGH ISLAND II LeT 82-SD-C 280 20000 ARAMCO KSA Q4/2014 DRILLING VARCO TDS-3H
SHELF DRILLING J.T. ANGEL F &G L780 MOD2 300 25000 ONGC INDIA Q1/2017 DRILLING VARCO TDS 4-H
SHELF DRILLING KEY HAWAII MITSUI JC300 300 25000 (MAERSK OIL QATAR QATAR DEC.2016 MOBILIZING VARCO TDS-4H
SHELF DRILLING KEY SINGAPORE LeT 116C 350 25000 EGYPT STACKED STACKED VARCO TDS-3
SHELF DRILLING MAIN PASS I F&G L780 MOD2 300 25000 ARAMCO KSA Q4/2014 DRILLING VARCO TDS 4-S
SHELF DRILLING MAIN PASS IV F&G L780 MOD2 300 25000 ARAMCO KSA Q4/2014 DRILLING VARCO TDS-3H
Working status of land rigs Middle East
Working status of Jack-up rigs Middle East, India & Egypt
COMPANY RIG RIG TYPE DRAWWORKS TOP DRIVE ROTARY TABLE MUD PUMP
Max Drill
Depth (ft)
OPERATOR COUNTRY LOCATION
OPER.
STATUS
A.D.C. AD- 03 land GD 1100 E Nat C-375 (I) GD PZ-11 & PZ-10 16,000 ARAMCO KSA Abqaiq drilling
A.D.C. AD- 04 land GD 1100 E Nat C-375 (I) Nat 10P- 130 x 2 16,000 ARAMCO KSA HDDH drilling
A.D.C. AD- 05 land MidCon U36A (M) GD C-275 2 x GD PZ-8 8,000 - KSA Dharhan -
A.D.C. AD- 07 land MidCon U36A (M) GD C-275 2 x GD PZ-8 8,000 - KSA Dharhan -
A.D.C. AD- 12 land Nat 110UE Nat C-375 (I) 2 x GD PZ-10 16,000 ARAMCO KSA Hawiyah drilling
A.D.C. AD- 14 land Nat 110UE Ideco 375 (I) 2 x GD PZ-11 17,000 - KSA Dharhan -
A.D.C. AD- 15 land MidCon U1220EB Oilwell 37.1/2" (I) GD PZ-11 x 2 25,000 ARAMCO KSA Uthmania drilling
A.D.C. AD- 21 land GD 3000 E Cont. Emsco T 375 (I) GD PZ-11 x 2 25,000 ARAMCO KSA Berri drilling
A.D.C. AD- 23 land ARAMCO KSA drilling
CROSCO EMSCO 605 land EMSCO C 2 II MH PDT 500 EMSCO T-3750, 371/2 3 X EMSCO FB 1600 20,000 IEOC EXPL.BV EGYPT Western Desert drilling
CROSCO Ideco 301 land/wo Ideco H-44 CD ideco LR 205, 201/2 "2 x GD PZ 8 Triplex 10,000 Khalda Pet.Comp. EGYPT Western Desert mobilizing
CROSCO Skytop 3 land mobile Skytop Brewster RR 850 Emsco T 2750 271/2 2 x GD PZ 8 Triplex 10,000 Khalda Pet.Comp. EGYPT Western Desert drilling
CROSCO Cardwell 9 land wo Cardwell 210 A 10,500 Kahlda Pet Comp EGYPT Western Desert workover
CROSCO Cardwell 10 land wo Cardwell 210 Nat. JWS - 400 10,500 Khalda Pet.Comp. EGYPT Western Desert workover
CROSCO National 2B (nis) land Nat 1320 UE MH PDT 500 Nat. D 375 2 x Nat 12P 160 20,000 RWE Dea Nile EGYPT Nile Delta Disc Cons drilling
CROSCO EMSCO 604 land EMSCO C 2 II VARCO TDS 9S EMSCO T-3750, 371/2 3 X Nat 12-P-160 20,000 Agip Oil Libya Sirte Basin drilling
CROSCO EMSCO 603 land EMSCO C 2 II TESCO 500 HT EMSCO T-3750, 371/2 3 X EMSCO FB 1600 20,000 Woodside Libya Sirte Basin drilling
CROSCO National 601 land Nat 1320 UE MH PDT 500 EMSCO T-3750, 371/2 3 X Nat 12-P-160 20,000 INA/Hayan PC Syria Hayan Block drilling
CROSCO Midco 501 land MidCont U9 14 EC Nat.B27 1/2 2 x EMSCO B-1300 18,000 Dublin Syria North Syrian Platfm drilling
CROSCO Nat. 402 land Nat. 80 UE EMSCO T-2750, 271/2 2 x Nat 12P 160 13,000 INA Syria Hayan Block drilling
CROSCO Skytop 1. mob.w.o. Skytop Brester RR 750 Cont.EMSCO T - 2750 2xW.Dplx,1xNatJWS400 8000(10000) INA Syria Hayan Blk.Palmyra workover
CROSCO EMSCO 602 land EMSCO C 2 II EMSCO T-2750, 271/2 2 x EMSCO FB-1600 20,000 AFPC Syria drilling
CROSCO Nat. 4. land.w/o Nat.450 Syria Palmyra Base stacked
CROSCO Skytop 4 land.w/o Skytop Brester RR 600 Skytop Brester RSH 18 18,000 PDO (Midwesco) Oman North workover
CROSCO Cardwell 11 land.w/o Cardwell KB 210 Nat. JWS - 400 10,500 PDO (Midwesco) Oman South workover
CROSCO Cooper LTO 350 land.w/o 4212-38 Double Drum GD TEE 165 PDO (Midwesco) Oman North workover
CROSCO Cardwell 13 land.w/o Cardwell KB 210A Nat.JWS - 400 11,500 PDO (Midwesco) Oman North workover
KCA DEUTAG T- 44 land Dreco 1000-UE Dreco 27.1/2" 2 x Nat 9P-100 10,000 PDO Oman North Oman drilling
KCA DEUTAG T- 51 land Emsco C-3 lll Nat C 37.1/2" 3x Wirth TPK 2000 30,000 PDO Oman South Oman drilling
KCA DEUTAG T- 55 land Nat 610-M Nat C 27.1/2" 2 x Emsco FB-1300 10,000 PDO Oman Central Oman drilling
KCA DEUTAG T- 63 land Nat.-1320 Nat C 37.1/2" 3 x Emsco FB - 1600 20,000 PDO Oman Central Oman drilling
KCA DEUTAG T- 66 land Emsco D-3 ll Nat C 27.1/2" 2 x Emsco FB-1300 10,000 PDO Oman North Oman drilling
KCA DEUTAG T- 77 land Nat.1320 UE Nat C 37.1/2" 3 x Nat. 12P-160 20,000 PDO Oman North Oman drilling
KCA DEUTAG T- 78 land Nat.1320 UE Nat.C 37.1/2" 3 x Nat. 12P-160 20,000 PDO Oman North Oman drilling
KCA DEUTAG T-209 land National 1320 UEBD Nat .C 37.1/2" 3 x 1600hp 20,000 Mobilizing
KCA DEUTAG T-210 land Dreco D2000E Nat .C 37.1/2" 3 x Wirth 2000 20,000 PDP Oman drilling
KCA DEUTAG T-19 land National 110 M Nat .C 37.1/2" 2x Emsco FB-1300 16,000 Verenex Libya drilling
KCA DEUTAG T- 40 land Nat. 110UE Nat. C 37.1/2" 2x Emsco FB-1300 16,000 UAE Jebel Ali stacked
KCA DEUTAG T- 49 land Nat. 80 B Nat. C27 1/2" 2 x Emsco F800 12,000 Mobilizing
KCA DEUTAG T-79 land Nat. 1625 DE Varco IDS-1 Nat. C37 1/2" 3 x Nat.12P-160 25,000 SRAK KSA South Rub Al Khali drilling
KCA DEUTAG T- 67 land Emsco D-3 ll Nat C 27.1/2" 2 x Emsco FB-1300 10,000 Saudi Aramco KSA Dhahran workover
KCA DEUTAG T-80 land Nat.1320 UBDE Varco IDS-1 Nat. C37 1/2" 2xGD PZ-11 20,000 ENCANA Oman/Qatar Central drilling
KCA DEUTAG T- 34 land Ideco H-1000 Nat C 27.1/2" 2 x Nat 8P-80 10,000 BP Pakistan Badin drilling
KCA DEUTAG T- 75 land Nat.1320 UE Varco IDS-1 Nat .C 37.1/2" 2 x Nat. 12P-160 20,000 MOL Pakistan NWFP Province drilling
KCA DEUTAG T- 103A land Ideco H-1000 Nat.C 27. 1/2" 2x Nat. 8P-80 10,000 on route to Nigeria Mobilizing
KCA DEUTAG T16 land Emsco A-800 Nat.C 27. 1/2" 2xEmsco DC1000 12,000 AGIP Libya Eastern Desert workover
KCA DEUTAG T72 land National 1320-UE Nat .C 37.1/2" 2 x Nat. 12P-160 20,000 WINTERSHALL Libya Eastern Desert drilling
KCA DEUTAG T101 land CABOT 320 GD PJ8A 4,000 WAHA Libya Eastern Desert workover
KCA DEUTAG T107 land Sandmaster K650 Dreco 6k500 4,000 TBD Libya Eastern Desert drilling
KCA DEUTAG T108 land Sandmaster K750 Nat C 27.1/2" 2xEmsco F800 6,600 REMSA Libya Eastern Desert drilling
KCA DEUTAG Rig 2 land Cabot Franks 1287 Ideco MM 200 Duplex 13,200 AGOCO Libya Eastern Desert workover
KCA DEUTAG Rig 3 land Cabot Franks 1287 Ideco MM 200 Duplex 13,200 AGOCO Libya Eastern Desert workover
KCA DEUTAG Rig 10 land Cabot Franks 1058 Pacemaker 835 13,000 REPSOL Libya Eastern Desert workover
KCA DEUTAG Rig 32 land Cabot Franks 750 Nat C 17.1/2" Pacemaker 835 7,500 VEBA Libya Eastern Desert workover
KCA DEUTAG Rig 34 land Cabot Franks 750 Nat C 17.1/2" Pacemaker 835 7,500 AGIP Libya Eastern Desert workover
KCA DEUTAG Rig 40 land Cabot Franks 700 Nat C 17.1/2" Ideco MM 200 Duplex 7,500 AGOCO Libya Eastern Desert workover
KCA DEUTAG Rig 204 land IDECO ED 1200 Nat C 27.1/2" 2xIdeco T-1000 Triplex 13,000 AGOCO Libya Eastern Desert drilling
KCA DEUTAG Rig 206 land IDECO ED 1200 Nat C 27.1/2" 2xIdeco T-1000 Triplex 13,000 REMSA Libya Eastern Desert drilling
EDC 16 LAND Nat. Oilwell 2000 NOV PS350/500 Oilwell B 37.1/2" N. Oilwell 2 x A 1700 PT 20,000 Qarun Egypt W. Desert drilling
EDC 17 LAND Nat 110-UE Nat C 27.1/2" 2 x Nat 10P-130 16,000 Qarun Egypt E. Desert drilling
EDC 18 LAND Nat 110-UE Nat C 27.1/2" 2 x Nat 12P-160 16,000 Khalda Egypt W. Desert drilling
EDC 19 LAND Nat 1320UE Nat C 37.1/2" 2 x Nat 12P-160 20,000 Alfurat Syria - drilling
EDC 20 LAND Ideco E-40-D Ideco-SR 205 17.1/2" Gardner Denever 12,000 Petrobel Egypt Gulf of Suez w/o platform
EDC 21 LAND KREMCO K 600 Nat C 17.1/2" 1 x Kremco 6K-500 12,000 East Zeit Egypt Zeit Bay w/o platform
EDC 34 LAND IDECO E-2100 Ideco LR 27.1/2" 2 x Ideco T-1600 20,000 Petrobel Egypt Gulf of Suez w/o platform
EDC 40 LAND Nat 110-UE Nat C 27.1/2" 2 x Nat 10P-130 16,000 Khalda Egypt W. Desert drilling
EDC 41 LAND Oilwell E-2000 Nat C-375 , 37.1/2" 2 x Oilwell 1700 PT 20,000 BAPTECO Egypt W. Desert drilling
EDC 42 LAND Oilwell E-2000 Varco TDS 11SA Nat C-375 , 37.1/2" 2 x Oilwell 1700 PT 20,000 BAPTECO Egypt W. Desert drilling
EDC (DPS) 43 LAND C.Emsco C-2 NOV PS350/500 C.Emsco T 27.1/2" 2 x Emsco FB-1300 20,000 ARAMCO KSA - drilling
EDC (DPS) 46 LAND NAT.110 UE 1500HP Nat C 37.1/2" 2 x Oilwell A-1700 PT 15,000 ARAMCO KSA - drilling
EDC 47 LAND NAT.110 UE 1500HP NOV PS350/500 Nat C 37.1/2" 2 x Oilwell A-1700 PT 16,000 Qarun Egypt W.Desert drilling
EDC 48 LAND NAT.1320 UE 2000 HP N PS - 500A Nat D 37.1/2" 2 x Nat 12P-160 20,000 Khalda USA drilling
EDC 49 LAND NAT.110 UE 1500HP TESCO 500-HS Nat C 27.1/2" 2 x Oilwell A-1700 PT 16,000 Petrobel Egypt Sinai drilling
EDC 50 LAND NAT.110 E. 1500 HP TESCO 500-HS Nat C 27.1/2" 2 x Nat 12P-160 16,000 Apache Egypt W. Desert drilling
EDC 51 LAND NAT.1320 UE N PS - 500A Nat Oilwell B-37.1/2" 2 x Nat Oilwell 12P-160 20,000 Khalda Egypt W. Desert drilling
EDC 52 LAND Nat. 1320 UE Varco TDS 11SA Nat Oilwell C-37.1/2" 2 x Nat Oilwell 12P-160 20,000 BAPTECO Egypt W. Desert drilling
EDC 53 LAND NAT.1320 UE Varco TDS 11SA Nat Oilwell C-37.1/2" 2 x Nat Oilwell 12P-160 20,000 Merlon Egypt Nile Delta drilling
EDC 54 LAND Drillmec DM 2000E Drillmec 37.1/2" 2 x ea Drillmec 12T-1600 20,000 Gupco drilling
SHELF DRILLING GALVESTON KEY LeT 116CS 300 25000 PETROFAC MALAYSIA JAN 2015 DRILLING NOV PS 2
SHELF DRILLING KEY GIBRALTER LeT 84 (116C in 1996) 300 20000 PVEP POC VIETNAM AFTER SING YARD STAY YARDWORKS VARCO TDS 8-SA
SHELF DRILLING TRIDENT XVI MODEC 300-C-38 300 25000 PC VIETNAM VIETNAM MAY 2014 DRILLING VARCO TDS - 3S
SHELF DRILLING GSF ADRIATIC X LET 116C 300 25000 ADDAX NIGERIA Q1/2014 DRILLING VARCO TDS-3
SHELF DRILLING RANDOLPH YOST LeT 116C 300 25000 KRIS ENERGY LENGO 2, INDIA 2ND WELL UNDERWAY DRILLING VARCO TDS 4-S
SHELF DRILLING HARVEY H.WARD F&G L780 MOD2 300 25000 ONGC INDIA Q1/2017 DRILLING VARCO TDS-4H
SHELF DRILLING RON TAPPMEYER LeT 116C 300 25000 ONGC INDIA Q1/2017 DRILLING VARCO TDS-3
SHELF DRILLING TRIDENT 12 BMC 300 IC 300 29000 ONGC INDIA SHIPYARD YARD VARCO TDS -3H
SHELF DRILLING ADRIATIC 5 LeT 116C 300 25000 ARAMCO DUBAI DRY DOCKS STACKED VARCO TDS 4S
SHELF DRILLING HIGH ISLAND V. LeT 82 SDC 270 20000 ARAMCO Q4/2013 KSA DEC.2018 MOBILIZING VARCO TDS - 3H
SHELF DRILLING TRIDENT 2 LeT 53-SC 300 25000 ONGC INDIA - NEELAM Mar-15 DRILLING VARCO TDS 4S
ADVANCED ENERGY SYSTEMS ADMARINE V (127) F &G L780 250 20000 BAHRAIN NO CONTRACT VARCO TDS-4
TRANSOCEAN INTEROCEAN III SONAT ORION C 300 20000 ASRY YARD BAHRAIN NONE STACKED TDS - 4S
TRANSOCEAN CONSTELLATION II F&G JU 2000 400 30000 TOTAL E&P GABON, WEST AFRICA Q2/ 2014 DRILLING NAT. PS 2-650/750
TRANSOCEAN TRIDENT VI MODEC-300-C35 220 21000 NONE EN RUTE - MID.EAST SOLD VARCO TDS-3H
MOS FRONTIER LeT 116C 300 25000 LAMPRELL YARD SHARJAH .UAE CONVERSION TO 290 POB LQ YARDWORKS MOS FRONTIER
TRANSOCEAN RIG 134 F&G L780 MOD2 300 20000 NONE STACKED - HAMRIYAH PORT VARCO TDS-4
US CONSORTIUM DIXIE PATRIOT LIFT BOAT GDI & DOLPHIN QAT. QATAR WORKING ACCOMODATION N/A
Rigs Update
Max Drill
Depth (ft)
OPER.
STATUS
EDC 61 LAND IDECO ED-1200 Ideco Type K 27.1/2" 2 x Continental Emsco FB 10,000 Khalda Egypt W. Desert drilling
EDC 62 LAND IDECO ED-1200 Ideco Type K 27.1/2" 2 x Continental Emsco FB 10,000 Khalda Egypt W. Desert drilling
EDC 63 LAND Drillmec MAS 5000 Drillmec K 27.1/2" 2 x ea Drillmec 12,000 Geopetrol Egypt E. Desert drilling
EDC 82 LAND COOPER LTO 550 TRUCK - 1 x Dreco 6K-500 10,000 Qarun Egypt W.Desert w/o
EDC 83 LAND DRECO K125 TRUCK - 1 x Kremco 6K-500 12,000 Khalda Egypt W. Desert w/o
EDC 84 LAND DRECO K125 TRUCK - 1 x Dreco 6K-500 15,000 Qarun Egypt Qarun w/o
EDC 85 LAND DRECO K125 TRUCK - 1 x KREMCO 6K-500 15,000 Qarun Egypt W. Desert w/o
EDC 86 LAND DRECO K125 TRUCK - 1 x Dreco 6K-500 12,000 Khalda Egypt W. Desert w/o
EDC 90 LAND DRECO K160 Nat C 27.1/2" 1 x Gardner Denever PZ-8 12,000 Khalda Egypt W. Desert w/o
EDC 91 LAND DRECO K125 TRUCK - 1 x Dreco 6K-500 12,000 Qarun Egypt W. Desert w/o
EDC 92 LAND DRECO K125 TRUCK - 1 x Dreco 6K-500 12,000 HBS Egypt W. Desert w/o
EDC 93 LAND DRECO K125 TRUCK - Drillmec model 7T450-2 12,000 Wintershall Libya - w/o
Dalma Energy LR 1 land Oilwell E2000 VARCO TDS 11 OILWELL B 375 2XA1700, 1XPZ-8 20,000 Aramco KSA Haradh drilling
Dalma Energy LR 2 land NAT 1320 ME VARCO TDS 9S NAT A 375 2XA1700, 1XPZ-8 20,000 ARAMCO KSA Haradh drilling
Dalma Energy LR 3 land Nat 1320UE Nat. C - 375 Nat. 12P-160 20,000 PTTEB Oman - drilling
Dalma Energy LR 4 land Nat 1320UE Nat. C - 375 2XNAT.12-P160, 20,000 QATAR - drilling
Dalma Energy LR 5 land OILWELL E2000 NAT.C-375 2 X GD PZ 11 20,000 PDO Oman MOBILIZING
Dalma Energy LR 6 land NAT 1320 UE NAT. C-375 2 X GD PZ 11 20,000 PDO OMAN MOBILIZING
Dalma Energy LR 7 land NAT 1320 UE VARCO TDS 11 NAT. C-375 2 X GD PZ 11 20,000 ARAMCO KSA construction
Dalma Energy LR 8 land NAT 110 VARCO TDS 11 NAT. C-275 3 X NAT 1300 18,000 PDO OMAN REFURBISH
Dalma Energy LR 9 land NAT 110 VARCO TDS 11 NAT C-275 3 X NAT 1300 18,000 PDO OMAN REFURBISH
Dalma Energy LR 10 land NAT 110 VARCO TDS 11 NAT C-275 3 X NAT 1300 18,000 PDO OMAN REFURBISH
Dalma Energy LR 11 land NAT 110 VARCO TDS 11 NAT C-275 3 X NAT 1300 12,000 ARAMCO KSA REFURBISH
Dalma Energy LR 12 land 2000 HP VARCO TDS 11 37 1/2 ROTARY 3 X 1600 HP 20,000 ALGERIA MOBILIZING
Dalma Energy LR 13 land 2000 HP VARCO TDS 11 37 1/2 ROTARY 3 X 1600 HP 20,000 ALGERIA MOBILIZING
Dalma Energy LR 14 land 2000 HP VARCO TDS 11 37 1/2 ROTARY 3 X 1600 HP 20,000 ARAMCO KSA drilling
Dalma Energy LR 15 land 2000 HP VARCO TDS 11 37 1/2 ROTARY 3 X 1600 HP 20,000 ARAMCO KSA drilling
Dalma Energy LR 16 land 1500 HP CANRIG 37 1/2 ROTARY 2 X 1300 HP 20,000 PDO OMAN AVAILABLE
Dalma Energy MR 1 land IPS Cardwell K-700 GD RT.22 1/2 2x GD PZ 8.2 12,000 PDO OMAN MOBILIZING
Dalma Energy MR 2 land IPS Cardwell K-700 GD RT 22 1/2 2 X GD PZ 8.2 12,000 PDO Oman drilling
Dalma Energy MR 3 land IPS Cardwell K-700 GD RT 22 1/2 2 X GD PZ 8 12,000 PDO OMAN MOBILIZING
Dalma Energy MR 4 land IPS Cardwell K-700 GD RT 22 1/2 2 X GD PZ 8 12,000 PDO OMAN drilling
Dalma Energy MR 5 land DRECO 800HP Oilwell 27.1/2" 2 X IDECO,T 1000 10,000 PDO Oman drilling
Dalma Energy MR 6 land DRECO 800HP CANRIG T-250 DRECO DUMMY 2 X GD PZ 8 10,000 PDO Oman drilling
Dalma Energy MR 7 land DRECO 800HP GD RT 27 1/2 2 X IDECO T 1000 10,000 PDO Oman drilling
MB Petroleum MB 1 land Ideco E-1500 Ideco LR 27.5 2 x Emsco FB 1300 16,000 DPC
MB Petroleum MB 2 land Brewster NE 95 Brewster RSP 27 .5 2 x Brewster T1300 17,000 UAE JEBEL ALI stacked
MB Petroleum MB 3 land GD 1500E GO 27.5 2 x Brewster T1300 22,000 AFPC Syria Der Ez Zoor drilling
MB Petroleum Rig 29 (04) land Dreco 1000 HP Dreco 2 x Nat. 9-P-100 9,843 PDO Oman Saihrawl drilling
MB Petroleum MB 21 land Ideco H1000 Ideco LR 20.5 1 x Ideco T1300 10,000 AFPC Syria Der Ez Zoor w/o
MB Petroleum MB 22 land Ideco H1000 Ideco LR 20.5 1 x Ideco T1300 10,000 AFPC Syria Der Ez Zoor w/o
MB Petroleum MB 23 land Ideco H1000 Ideco LR 20.5 2 x National 8P80 10,000 Jannah Hunt Yemen Marib drilling
MB Petroleum Rig 28 (25) land Ideco H1000 National 27.5 2 x Ideco T1000 10,000 PDO Oman Nimr drilling
MB Petroleum MB 31 land Cooper 550 National 17.5 1 x GD PAH 6,500 PDO Oman Yibal w/o
MB Petroleum MB 32 land Kremco K600 Power Swivel 1 x GD PAH 6,000 PDO Oman Nimr w/o
MB Petroleum Rig 33 (05) land Kremco K600 Power Swivel 1 x GD PAH 6,000 PDO Oman Nimr w/o
MB Petroleum MB 34 land Kremco K600 Power Swivel 1 x GD PAH 6,000 PDO Oman Fahud w/o
MB Petroleum MB 35 land Wilson 42WWB Power Swivel 1 x GD PAH 6,500 PDO Oman Wafra w/o
MB Petroleum MB 36 land Cardwell KB150 nil 1 x GD TEE 5,000 Oman Nimr stacked
MB Petroleum MB 37 land Cooper LTO650 National 17.5 2 x HT 400 9,000 Oman Nimr stacked
MB Petroleum MB 38 land Cooper LTO 550 Power Swivel 1 x GD PAH 6,500 Can-Oxy Yemen Masila w/o
MB Petroleum MB 39 land Kremco K600 Power Swivel 1 x GD PAH 6,000 PDO Oman Marmul w/o
MB Petroleum MB 40 land Ideco H-37-ED Power Swivel 1 x GD PAH 6,000 PDO Oman Nimr w/o
MB Petroleum MB 41 land Ideco H-37-ED Power Swivel 1 x GD PAH 6,000 Jannah Hunt Yemen Marib idle
Nabors-Algeria 283 land National 110-UE Nat-375 2 - EMSCO FB1600 16,000 First Calgary Petrol Algeria Hassi Berkine drilling
Nabors-Algeria 284 land National 110-UE Nat-375 2 - EMSCO FB1600 16,000 First Calgary Petrol Algeria Hassi Berkine drilling
Nabors-Algeria 288 land Midco - U-1220 EB Oilwell 37 1/2 2 - EMSCO FB1600 20,000 Ourhoud Algeria Hassi Berkine drilling
Nabors-Algeria 779 land Midco - U-1220 EB Canrig 1050E 500T GD 37 1/2" 2 x EMSCO FB 1600 20,000 Groupment Berkine Algeria Hassi Messaoud drilling
Nabors-Algeria 810 land Oilwell E-2000 Nat-37 1/2" 2 x EMSCO FB 1600 20,000 Ourhoud Algeria Hassi Berkine drilling
Nabors - UAE 125 land Midco - U-914 EC GD RT - 37 1/2 2 x EMSCO FB 1300 18,000 - UAE JEBEL ALI stacked
Nabors/Pool-Saudi Arabia 70 land U-1220 EB Emsco 37.1/2" 2 x FB-1600 20,000 ARAMCO KSA SHLH-1 drilling
Nabors/Pool-Saudi Arabia 115 land Midco - 1220 EB 37-1/2" 3 x CE FC 1600 20,000 ARAMCO KSA QATIF drilling
Nabors/Pool-Saudi Arabia 117 land U-1220 EB GD RE 37.1/2" 2 x FB-1600 18,000 ARAMCO KSA SHAYBAH drilling
Nabors/Pool-Saudi Arabia 128 land Midco - C 1220 EB Emsco 37.1/2" 2 x Emsco FB 1600 20,000 ARAMCO KSA UTHMANIA drilling
Nabors/Pool-Saudi Arabia 210 land National 110UE 37-1/2" 2 x Oilwell A 1700 PT 18,000 ARAMCO KSA ABQQ drilling
Nabors/Pool-Saudi Arabia 212 land Nat 110UE Nat 27.1/2" Nat 10P- 130 18,000 ARAMCO KSA Shaybah drilling
Nabors/Pool-Saudi Arabia 263 land Oilwell E 2000 37-1/2" 3 x PZ 11 GD 20,000 ARAMCO KSA HWYH drilling
Nabors/Pool-Saudi Arabia 848 (x128) land Franks 1287/160 - Nat JWS 185 6,000 - KSA Dhahran stacked
Nabors/Pool-Saudi Arabia 849 (x138) land Franks 1287/160 - Nat JWS 185 6,000 - KSA Dhahran stacked
Nabors/Pool-Saudi Arabia 850 (x190) land IR 2042 27.1/2" GD PZ-8 6,500 - KSA Dhahran stacked
Nabors/Pool-Saudi Arabia 851 (x191) land IR 2042 27.1/2" GD PZ-8 6,500 - KSA Dhahran stacked
Nabors/Pool-Saudi Arabia 852 (x192) land IR 2042/160 27.1/2" GD PZ-7 8,500 - KSA Dhahran stacked
Nabors/Pool-Saudi Arabia 853 (x193) land IR 2042/160 27.1/2" GD PZ-8 8,500 - KSA Dhahran stacked
Nabors/Pool-Saudi Arabia 854 (x194) land IR 2042/160 27.1/2" GD PZ-8 8,000 ARAMCO KSA GHNH workover
Nabors/Pool-Saudi Arabia 855 (x195) land IR 2042/160 27.1/2" GD PZ-7 8,500 - UAE JEBEL ALI stacked
Nabors/Pool-Saudi Arabia 856 land UAE JEBEL ALI stacked
Nabors/Pool-Saudi Arabia 857 (x302) land IR 2042 27.1/2" GD PZ-8 6,500 - UAE Jebel Ali stacked
Nabors/Pool-Saudi Arabia 858 (x303) land IR 2042 27.1/2" GD PZ-8 6,500 ARAMCO KSA QATIF Workover
Nabors/Pool-Saudi Arabia 859 (x201) land Nat 110 UE 37-1/2" 2 x FB - 1600 18,000 ARAMCO KSA UTHMANIA Workover
Nabors/Pool-Saudi Arabia 860 (x202) land Ideco E1700 37.1/2" 2 x Oilwell A-1700 PT 17,000 ARAMCO KSA GHZL drilling
Nabors/Pool-Saudi Arabia 861 land Ideco E1700 37.1/2" 2 x Oilwell A-1400 PT 17,000 ARAMCO KSA TINT workover
Nabors/Pool-Saudi Arabia 863 (x215) land Ideco E 900 37.1/2" 2 x GD PZ-9 10,500 KSA Dhahran stacked
Nabors/Pool-Saudi Arabia 866 (x304) land CE C-3 37.1/2" 2 x CE FB -1600 25,000 ARAMCO KSA ABHD-33 drilling
Nabors/Pool-Oman 807 land w/o Ideco BIR- 3165 (350 HP) Power Swivel 1 x GD TEEBGB Well Servicing - Oman stacked
Nabors/Pool-Oman 809 land Ideco E900 Ideco 27.1/2" 2 x GD PZ-9 10,000 Oxy-Oman Oman Safah drilling
Nabors/Pool-Oman 862 land Ideco E900 Oilwell 37.1/2" (I) 2 x GD PZ-9 10,000 Oxy-Oman Oman Wadi Latham drilling
Nabors-UAE 235 land Cooper LTO-750 National C-275 2 x Emsco F-800 8,000 - UAE Jebel Ali stacked
Nabors-UAE 842 land w/o Franks 1287 Ideco RT 17 1/2 1 x Halliburton HT 400 12,000 - UAE Jebel Ali stacked
Nabors-UAE 843 land Ideco H-44 CD GD - RT 22 1/2 2 OPI - 700 HDL 9,000 - UAE Jebel Ali stacked
Nabors-UAE 844 land w/o Pro TR-224 Pulling Unit N/A 9,000 UAE UAE Jebel Ali stacked
Nabors-Yemen 1 land OIME Ideco 27.1/2" GD PZ - 9 x 3 12,500 Yemen Marib stacked
Nabors-Yemen 98 land Midco 914 EC Emsco 27.1/2" GD PZ - 10 x 2 15,000 Nexen Yemen Masila drilling
Nabors-Yemen 208 land Ideco H-40 National C 17" National 7 - P - 50 x 1 6,000 - Yemen Marib
not
marketable
Nabors-Yemen 214 land Midco U712 EA MidCon 27.1/2" GD PZ-9 x 2 12,000 Nexen Yemen Masilla drilling
Nabors-Yemen 217 land Midco U712 EA MidCon 27.1/2" GD PZ-10 x 2 12,000 Nexen Yemen Masilla drilling
Nabors-Yemen 226 land
Continental Emsco D-3
Type 11
Continental Emsco
27 1/2
Continental Emsco F-1000 12,000 Yemen Hunt Yemen Marib drilling
Nabore/Pool - Saudi Arabia 865 land IRI Cabot 2550 HT Ideco 37 1/2 Oilwell A-1400 PT X 2 16,000 Vintage Yemen Marib drilling
NDC ND-1 land Oilwell 840 E, 1400 HP National C 275 2 x Oilwell A-1400 PT
16,000 with
4.1/2"DP
ADCO A.Dhabi, UAE Dabbiya drilling
NDC ND-2 land Oilwell 840 E, 1400 HP Oilwell B 27.1/2" 2 x Oilwell A-1400 PT
16,000 with
4.1/2"DP
ADCO A.Dhabi, UAE Asab drilling
Rigs Update
Max Drill
Depth (ft)
OPER.
STATUS
NDC ND-8 land National 80-B, 1000 HP National C 275 1 x National 9-P-100 12,000 ADCO A.Dhabi, UAE Asab drilling
NDC ND-9 land National 80-UE, 1000 HP National C 275
2 x Continental Emsco
F-1000
12,000 ADCO A.Dhabi, UAE Bab drilling
NDC ND-10 land National 80-B, 1000 HP National C 275 2 x National 9-P-100 12,000 ADCO A.Dhabi, UAE Buhasa drilling
NDC ND-11 land Oilwell E 3000, 3000 HP Oilwell B 37.1/2" 2 x Oilwell A-1700 PT 30,000 ADCO A.Dhabi, UAE Bab drilling
NDC ND-16 land Oilwell 760 E, 1000 HP Oilwell B 27.1/2" 2 x Oilwell A-1400 PT 12,000 ADCO A.Dhabi, UAE Sahil drilling
NDC ND-17 land Oilwell 760 E, 1000 HP Oilwell B 27.1/2" 2 x Oilwell A-1400 PT 12,000 ADCO A.Dhabi, UAE Bab drilling
NDC ND-21 land National 110-UE, 1500 HP National D 375 2 x National 10-P-130 16,000 ADCO A.Dhabi, UAE Bab drilling
NDC ND-22 land National 110-UE, 1500 HP National D 375/GE 752 2 x National 12-P-160 16,000 ADCO A.Dhabi, UAE Bab drilling
NDC ND-23 land Kremco K-750, 750 HP National C 175-S 1 x National 7-P-50 10,000 ADCO A.Dhabi, UAE Asab w/o
NDC ND-24 land
National 1320-UDBE,
2000 HP
Dreco 375, 37.1/2" 3 x Gardner Denver PZ-11 20,000 ADCO A.Dhabi, UAE Bab w/o
NDC ND-25 land Dreco 750 HP Oilwell 27.1/2" 2 x Gardner Denver PZ-8 10,000 ADCO A.Dhabi, UAE Bab w/o
NDSC Rig 87 (10) land Ideco E-2000 Ideco 37.1/2" 2 x Ideco T-1600 20,000 PDO Oman BLOCK 6 drilling
NDSC Rig 31 (31) land NAT. 80 UE 37.1/2" 8P - 80 (3) 12,000 PDO Oman BLOCK 6 drilling
NDSC Rig 32 (32) land NAT. 80 UE 37.1/2" 8P - 80 (3) 12,000 PDO Oman BLOCK 6 drilling
NDSC Rig 88 (09) land NAT 1320 UE 37.1/2" 3 X EMSCO FB-1600 20,000 PDO OMAN BLOCK 6 drilling
ENSIGN Rig 7 land Ideco Super 7-11 Ideco 37.1/2" 2 x Mas 1000 15,000 - Libya - stacked
ENSIGN Rig 9 land Ideco Super 7-11 Ideco 37.1/2" 2 x Ideco MM 1000 GB 15,000 - Libya - stacked
ENSIGN Rig 15 land Ideco H 1700 Ideco 27.1/2" 2 x Ideco T-1300 17,000 - Libya - drilling
ENSIGN Rig 15 (25) land Dreco E-800 HP Nat. C - 275 2 x Emsco F-1000 10,000 none Oman idle in Nimr stacked
ENSIGN Rig 16 (26) land Dreco E-800 HP Nat. C - 275 2 x Emsco F-1000 10,000 PDO Oman - drilling
ENSIGN Rig 60 (36) land Midco 1220-UE Nat. C - 375 2 x GD PZ-11 25,000 PDO Oman - drilling
ENSIGN Rig 40 land Dreco E-1000 Nat. C - 275 2 x Emsco F-1000 10,000 PDO Oman - drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 92 Med.Depth Nat.1320 UE No 27 1/2" 2 x Nat.1300HP 16,000 AGIPA Egypt drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 94 hd land Oilwell E-2000 No 37 1/2" 2x Oilwell 1400hp 20,000 Petrobel Egypt drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 104 Med.Depth Nat.1320 UE CANRIG 27 1/2" 2x Nat 1300hp 16,000 AGIBA Egypt stacked
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 143 Workover Ideco H-37 ED No 17 1/2" 1x GD 275 hp 6,500 Petrobel Egypt drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 144 deep land emsco c-3 Varco TDS-11SA 37 1/2" 3 x oilwell 1700 hp 30,000 ARAMCO ksa drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 102 Med.Depth Nat. 110 UE No 37 1/2" Oilwell A1400PT 16,000 Joint Operations Kuwait drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 146 Shallow w/o Kremco K-750 No 27 1/2" 2 x Nat 9P-100 10,000 KOC Kuwait drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 147 Med.Depth Nat. 110 UE Varco TDS-11SA 27 1/2" 2x Oilwell 1400hp 16,000 El Eshmalaha Egypt mobilizing
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 04 (150) Med.Depth NAT. 80 UE No 27 1/2" 2x Nat 900hp 11,500 PDO Oman drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 05 (151) Med.Depth Nat. 80 UE Varco TDS 9S 27 1/2" 2x Nat 9P-100 8,000 PDO Oman drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 157 hd land Ideco E-1700 No 37 1/2" 2 x Oilwell HD 1700 PT 17,000 ARAMCO KSA drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 155 deep land Oilwell E-3000 Varco TDS 4 37 1/2" 3 x Oilwell A1700PT 30,000 KOC Kuwait drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 158 deep land Nat. 1625UE No 37 1/2" 2 x Oilwell HD 1700 PT 25,000 MOC/Burzugan Iraq mobilizing
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 160 Med.Depth Dreco 1250E No 37 1/2" 2 x Nat 10P-130 12,000 KOC Kuwait stacked
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 161 Med.Depth Dreco 1250UE No 37 1/2" 2 x Garden Denver PZ-9 12,000 SOC Iraq mobilizing
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 169 Med.Depth National 110 UE NOV TDS II 27 1/2" 2 x Nat.1300HP 16,000 Available Libya stacked
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 171 Shallow w/o Oilwell 750E No 27 1/2" 2 x Nat. 1000hp 10,000 Available Kuwait stacked
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 172 Shallow w/o Oilwell 660E No 27 1/2" Oilwell 850PT 10,000 KOC Kuwait stacked
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 173 deep land GD E3000 Varco IDS-1 37 1/2" 3 x GD 1600 hp 30,000 ARAMCO KSA drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 174 deep land Emsco C3 Varco IDS-1 37.1/2" 3 x Emsco FB 1600 30,000 ARAMCO KSA drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 786 Med.Depth oilwell E-2000 varco TDS-11SA 37.1/2" 3 x National A 1700PT 20,000 ARAMCO KSA drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 787 Med.Depth Nat 1320 UE varco TDS-11SA 37.1/2" 3 x Oilwell A1700 PT 20,000 ARAMCO KSA drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 776 deep land Ideco E-3000 Varco TDS- 4S 37.1/2" 3 x Oilwell A1700 PT 30,000 KOC Kuwait drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 40 Land Dreco E-1000 No 37.1/2" 2 X Emsco E-1000 12,000 PDO Oman drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 710 Med.Depth Nat. 1320 UE Tesco 37.1/2" 3 x BPMMP BSF-1600 17,800 MOC/Burzugan Iraq mobilizing
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 180 deep land National 1625 UE Nat. PS2 650/750 37 1/2" 3 x Oilwell A 1700 PT 30,000 KOC Kuwait drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 291 Light duty Skytop Brewster 55D2 No 17 1/2" 2 x Nat 800HP 7,000 ExxonMobil Chad drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 292 Light duty Skytop Brewster 55D2 No 18 1/2" 3 x Nat 800HP 7,000 ExxonMobil Chad drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 340 Med.Depth IRI No 27 1/2" 2 x Nat 1300HP 12,000 ExxonMobil Chad drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 801 Med.Depth JC70DB Varco TDS 11SA 37 1/2" 3 x BOMCO 1600HP 20,000 Petronas Ethiopia drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 802 Med.Depth JC50D Varco TDS 11SA 37 1/2" 2 x NOV 1600HP 16,000 AGOCO Libya drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 803 Med.Depth JC50D Varco TDS 11SA 37 1/2" 2 x NOV 1600HP 16,000 AGOCO Libya drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 804 Med.Depth IDM Single Drum AC CANRIG 1035AC 37 1/2" 2 x JF 1600HP 16,000 Sonatrach Algeria drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 805 Med.Depth IDM Single Drum AC CANRIG 1035AC 37 1/2" 3 x JF 1600HP 16,000 Sonatrach Algeria drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 815 Med.Depth NOV SSED 360 LTI/L-DDTD-500 37 1/2" 2 x WH 1612 1600HP 16,000 Tunisia stacked
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 1325/3 hd land Nat. 1320 UE No 37 1/2" 2 x Nat. 12P 1600HP 20,000 POL Pakistan drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 319 hd land Nat. 1625 UBDE CANRIG 1275AC 37 1/2" 3 x Nat 12P 1600HP 25,000 OMV Iraq mobilizing
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 798 Med.Depth Nat. 1320 UE Varco TDS 11SA 37 1/2" 3 x BOMCO 1600HP 20,000 ARAMCO KSA drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 799 Med.Depth BOMCO JC70DB Varco TDS 11SA 37 1/2" 3 x BOMCO 1600HP 20,000 ARAMCO KSA drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 800 Med.Depth BOMCO JC70DB Varco TDS 11SA 37 1/2" 3 x BOMCO 1600HP 20,000 ARAMCO KSA drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 810 Med.Depth NOV JC50D Varco TDS 11SA 37 1/2" 2 NOV 12P-160 1600HP 16,000 Pakistan stacked
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 811 hd land JC 70DB Varco TDS 11SA 37 1/2" 3 x F 1600HP 20,000 PPL Pakistan drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 812 hd land JC 70DB Varco TDS 11SA 37 1/2" 3 x F 1600HP 20,000 ENI Pakistan drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 814 Med.Depth NOV SSED 360 Varco TDS 11SA 37 1/2" 2 X NOV 12P-160 1600HP 16,000 UAE stacked
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 827 hd land LTI 1000 KIP AC LTI/L-DDTD-500 37 1/2" 2 x WH 1612 1600HP 20,000 Bapco Bahrain drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 840 Med.Depth LTI 1000 KIP AC LTI/L-DDTD-500 37 1/2" 2 x WH 1612 1600HP 16,000 SOC Iraq drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 841 Med.Depth NOV JC50D NOV TDS 11SA 37 1/2" 2 x NOV 12P-160 1600HP 16,000 SOC Iraq drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 842 Med.Depth NOV JC50D NOV TDS 11SA 37 1/2" 2 x NOV 12P-160 1600HP 16,000 MOL/GKS/Kalegran Iraq drilling
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 843 Land NOV D 1000UE NOV TDS 11SA 27 1/2" 2 x WFT Ironman 1000HP 11,000 PDO Oman Construction
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. RIG 830 Land PETRONAS IRAQ UAE LAMPRELL YARD REFURBISH
WEATHERFORD DRILLING INT. Rig 844 Land NOV D 1000UE NOV TDS 11SA 27 1/2" 2 x WFT Ironman 1000HP 11,000 PDO Oman Construction
SAXON DRILLING Rig 3 land 1500 HP 16,000 KSA drilling
SAXON DRILLING Rig 7 land National 80 UE Natonal C 275 (I) 9P-100 12,000 PDO South Oman Rima drilling
SAXON DRILLING Rig 8 land National 80 UE Natonal C 275 (I) PZ 11 12,000 PDO South Oman Zauliya drilling
SAXON DRILLING 11 land Gardner 1100 E Natonal C 375 (I) 2 x National 12P 160 16,000 - Jordan Zarqa -
SAXON DRILLING 16 land 2000 HP 20,000 KSA drilling
SAXON DRILLING 14 land 1500 HP 16,000 KSA drilling
SAXON DRILLING 15 land Gardner 1500 E Oilwell 37.1/2" (I) 2 x National 12P 160 20,000 - KSA drilling
SAXON DRILLING Rig 19 (19) land Gardner 1500 E Oilwell 37.1/2" (I) 2 x Gardner PZ11 25,000 - Oman Central Oman drilling
SAXON DRILLING Rig 34 land 2000 HP 25,000 KSA drilling
SAXON DRILLING 23 land Gardner 2100 E Cont. Emsco T 375 (I) 2 x Gardner PZ11 25,000 KSA Fabrication
SAXON DRILLING AD 12 land 1500 HP 16,000 KSA drilling
SAXON DRILLING AD 31 land 1500 HP 16,000 KSA Fabrication
SAXON DRILLING AD 32 land 1500 HP 17,000 KSA Fabrication
SAXON DRILLING 25 land Gardner 2100 E Cont. Emsco T 375 (I) 2 x Gardner PZ11 25,000 - Pakistan Sui Idle
SAXON DRILLING 35 land Gardner 1100 E Gardner 275 (M) 2 x Gardner PZ11 25,000 - KSA drilling
SAXON DRILLING AD 21 land 3500 HP Ultra Heavy 25,000 KSA Drilling
SAXON DRILLING Rig AD 4 land 1500 HP 16,000 KSA Drilling
SAXON DRILLING Rig 60 land 1200 HP 12,000 Pakistan stacked
SAXON DRILLING 43 land National 80 UE National C 275 (M) 2 x Gardner PZ9 12,000 - Libya Zelten -
SAXON DRILLING Rig 65 land Ideco 2100 E Ideco 37.1/2" (I) 2 x Ideco T-1600 20,000 PDO Oman South Oman drilling
SAXON DRILLING Rig 36 land 2000 HP 25,000 KSA Fabrication
SAXON DRILLING Rig 91 land Oilwell 2000 Oilwell 37.1/2" (I)
2 x 1700 PT + 1 x
A1700PT Oilwell
20,000 - Oman South Oman drilling
SAXON DRILLING Rig 79 land E- 2000 HD 1700PT 20,000 Oman drilling
SAXON DRILLING Rig 83 (96) land Oilwell 2000 Oilwell 37.1/2" (I) 2 x Oilwell HD 1700 PT 20,000 - Oman Fahud stacked
48 land Gardner 1100 E National 37.1/2" 3 x Gardner PZ11 16,000 BHP Algeria Hassi Messaoud -
49 land Gardner 1100 E Emsco 37.1/2" (I) 3 x Gardner PZ11 16,000 Arco Algeria - drilling
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United Safety has been operating for over 27 years
and Elie Daher, executive VP and chief marketing
officer, talks about how the firm has brought
revolutionary safety solutions to the industry
How long has your business provided
services/solutions for the Oil and Gas sector?
Over the past 27 years, United Safety has
established its credential as a global leader,
providing specialised safety equipment,
personnel and services to various clients across
the globe. We are consciously committed to
improving safety in the workplace.
Where are you located within the Middle
East/GCC region how many divisions do
you have in the region? How important is this
part of the world to your overall business?
United Safety has been operating
in the Middle East since 2002 with
operational experience in all facets of
the energy industry. We have offices in
Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar and
Kuwait. Our services include Industrial and
Upstream Safety Management Services
and Operational Safety and Integrity
Management Services (OSIMS
TM
).
The Middle East is a very important region
for us as it holds the worlds major Oil and
Gas reserves. With Oil and Gas activities
progressing into increasingly challenging
environments, our role as an innovative
safety provider has never been more crucial.
Are there any standout projects within the
region on which your company has worked,
preferably within the last 6-12 months?
In the upstream industry, United Safety
won a substantial contract in the UAE to
supply breathing air systems for a major oil
and gas producer. We are excited to work with
a company that has a very high regard for
safety and adopts the latest technologies in
developing and operating its oilfields.
Over the last 12 months, through our
OSIMS
TM
division, United Safety has provided
high quality risk management solutions for
multiple clients. These projects originate in
complex environments where communities
and multiple work sites in close proximity
to drilling and production operations create
a higher degree of risk to clients and
communities. To assist our clients success
in Iraq for example, we have provided
services such as emergency response and
emergency evacuation plans, quantitative risk
assessments and dispersion modeling. In fact,
we were the first company ever in Iraq to
successfully apply and execute Computational
Fluid Dynamics (CFD) 3D Dispersion Modeling
for an uncontrolled well release.
What is the competitive advantage your
business has over others providing similar
services/solutions to the Oil and Gas industry?
Across the globe, United Safety brings
in an unrivaled package of professionals,
processes and equipment. We work closely
with customers and contractors to deliver an
elite team of EH&S specialists who promote
and strengthen worksite safety culture,
pioneer processes with a proven track record
of increasing productivity and reducing costs,
and provide, innovative safety equipment for
a safer worksite.
United Safety has built a reputation for
safety you can count on. At the cutting edge
of technology, innovation is an integral part of
our company DNA. Our innovative solutions
challenge the status quo to continuously push
the boundaries and test conventional thinking.
What has been the highlight of the last
12 months for your company?
In September last year, we opened a new
and bigger eastern hemisphere hub in Dubai
as we continue to expand our presence and
footprint around the globe. Our new office is
located in Dubai Media City and it will serve as
the operations and technical support, product
demonstration and customer engagement
center in the eastern hemisphere.
Also last year, we launched the industrys
first Vehicle Gas Protection System - the
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TM
Trooper at ADIPEC. United
Safety believes the Air Qruise
TM
Trooper fills
an industry gap in ensuring that personnel
stay safe while in transit and in the event
of a toxic gas release. It has already been
deployed in one of the toughest and harshest
oilfield in the UAE.
In the western hemisphere, we are
operational in some of the deepest and most
challenging oilfields in Brazil and have expanded
our operations in North Dakota in the USA.
What are you most excited about for the
coming year in terms of your business outlook?
The overall risk profile of the Oil and Gas
sector is on an upward trajectory. Projects are
becoming more complex and sophisticated
technologies are needed to run these projects.
The industry is under intense pressure and
scrutiny from regulators, shareholders and
communities that demand safer and cleaner
operations with less environmental impact.
We are excited to be a part of this challenging
landscape by bringing innovative solutions that
keep everybody on the wellsite safer while
reducing cost and improving productivity.
SPECIALISED SAFETY
EQUIPMENT PROVIDER
Ali & Sons Oilfield Supplies and Services Co. L.L.C | Tel: +9712 6723 900 | Fax: +9712 6723 901 | email: enquiries@ali-sons.com | www.asos.ali-sons.com
Part of Ali & Sons Group of companies

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