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and efficient decision-making by ensuring these multiple sources of highly technical data are readily accessible across a customer’s full range of upstream business operations. Meanwhile another Halliburton company, Boots & Coots, has enhanced its pressure control offerings with the acquisition of Old School Services (OSS). Tis acquisition gives Halliburton the resources to provide operators with the through-tubing equipment required to resolve production challenges faced by the growing unconventionals, horizontal drilling and multistage completions markets.
Through-tubing Trough-tubing - or ‘thru-tubing’ - equipment and services are vital to the well completion process. Tey provide methods for removing objects or debris from the wellbore to enable well production, and they offer innovative solutions that allow increased operating depths in the well. OSS has a broad selection of speciality tools for fishing, milling, cleanout, and tubing-conveyed perforating services that complement the well intervention services provided by Boots & Coots. In a third move, Halliburton has opened three
new remote operations command and control (ROCC) centres in the USA to help operators keep pace with the rapid growth and stringent requirements of fracturing operations. Te new centres, serving operations in North
Dakota, the mid-continent region, and the south Texas and southeast Texas/Louisiana areas, have a number of specific functions: to support real-time decision-making on immediate well and treatment conditions; to enhance technical oversight; to reduce
Lamprell expands in Saudi Arabia E
ngineering and contracting services supplier Lamprell has signed a joint venture agreement with Shoaibi Group, a Saudi industry and energy services provider, and Al Yusr Townsend and Bottum (AYTB), a Saudi integrated industrial, technical and logistical services provider, to form Lamprell Arabia. Te joint venture, which will be based in Al Khobar in the oil rich Eastern province of Saudi Arabia, intends to establish a presence for new build fabrication, refurbishment and repair of land drilling rigs in Saudi Arabia, by combining Lamprell’s expertise in this sector and Shoaibi
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health, safety and environment (HSE) exposure by reducing the number of personnel travelling and the number of personnel required at the wellsite; promote knowledge transfer; and to drive excellence in service quality. In other news Petrofac has confirmed that
Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has declared that it is the selected bidder for the integrated production service contract to develop the Arenque contract area, offshore Mexico. Te Arenque contract area is situated in the Gulf
of Mexico, 30 km from the city of Tampico. Te Arenque field, which is currently producing around 5000 bbl/d, has initial oil in place of approximately 1.2 billion barrels with a current recovery factor of around 11 per cent. Under the contract, which runs for 30 years, Petrofac plans to improve the recovery factor and increase production from the core area of the field using horizontal wells and secondary recovery techniques (Fig. 1).
Recovery mechanism In addition there is considerable upside potential in the rest of the block. Petrofac will receive a tariff of US$7.90 (€6.10) for each barrel of incremental production and will be reimbursed for 75 per cent of its development expenditure through a cost recovery mechanism. In the first two years, Petrofac will commit approximately US$50 million (€38 million) in capital expenditure. Tis is the fourth integrated production service contract that Petrofac has been awarded in Mexico since August 2011. Te other contracts are for the Magallanes and Santuario fields in Tabasco State, and the Pánuco field in Veracruz State. ●
Group’s strong experience in the Saudi onshore and offshore market and AYTB’s operational support facilities and multi-disciplinary workforce. Lamprell Arabia will offer new build fabrication, refurbishment and repair of Saudi land rigs, ancillary fabrication for onshore assets and services on Saudi offshore rigs, with the intention of opening a local workshop in the recently built Shoaibi Group oil and gas park, located in the industrial village zone in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Shoaibi group director Khalid
Suhayl Al Shoaibi said: “Tis is a landmark joint venture for the Shoaibi
Group and we are all extremely pleased to enter into this joint venture agreement with Lamprell and AYTB. Tis joint venture builds on the strengths of the three companies to expand Lamprell’s operations in Saudi Arabia and will further reinforce Shoaibi Group’s market positions across our engineering and contracting services to the Saudi upstream industry. Saudi Arabia has an estimated 98 onshore drilling rigs in place and there is a rising demand for advanced drilling equipment and oilfield services in the upstream market, which justifies Lamprell’s expansion into market at this time.”●
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