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In 2010, Schlumberger was contracted to perform wireline logging on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. On the day of the explosion, the Schlumberger crew was supposed to perform a cement evaluation test, but the test was cancelled and the crew was released by BP to leave the rig on the same day.
Transocean Ltd. Transocean Ltd. is an American drilling company. [2] It is the world's largest offshore drilling contractor based on revenue and is based in Vernier, Switzerland. The company has offices in 20 countries, including Canada, the United States, Norway, United Kingdom, India, Brazil, Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
Subsalt: Refers to oil prospects that lie below a salt layer. Toolhand: Refers to a third party (down hole services provider) service representative or field service supervisor with "tools" to be run and operated in a well. Toolpusher: The boss of a drilling rig, working under the drilling superintendent or the corporation the rig is contracted to.
Completion (oil and gas wells) Well completion is the process of making a well ready for production (or injection) after drilling operations. This principally involves preparing the bottom of the hole to the required specifications, running in the production tubing and its associated down hole tools as well as perforating and stimulating as ...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday that companies can recover profits lost because of the unauthorized use of their patented technology abroad in a victory for Schlumberger NV, the world's ...
June. June 1 – Oil began washing up on the beaches of Gulf Islands National Seashore. [88] June 4 – Tar balls arrive on beaches in Pensacola, Florida. [89] June 5 – Obama makes third trip to Louisiana since the disaster began, visits Grand Isle, Louisiana for the second time in two weeks.
Drilling rig; 2. Rock layers; 3. Oil rigs; 4. Oil and natural gas. An oil platform (also called an oil rig, offshore platform, oil production platform, etc.) is a large structure with facilities to extract and process petroleum and natural gas that lie in rock formations beneath the seabed.
The Schlumberger brothers called this technique an "Electrical Survey", but the more common name "well log" was coined a few years later in the United States. At that time, Pechelbronn was the only oil field known in France. On 28 July 1928, the owners of the oil field signed a contract with the Schlumberger company to do