CATOOSA - A local fabrication company announced a deal this week to build nine offshore derricks at the Tulsa Port of Catoosa for use in deep-water drilling. Lee C. Moore, a subsidiary of Woolslayer ...

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In connection with minor repair work the derrick of the drillship, West Navion, it has been uncovered cracks in the wire sheaves in the hoisting system of the dual derrick set (Ram Rig). As a result ...

Year and a half ago two veteran Oklahoma oil men put a fancy new, aluminum-colored portable rotary drilling rig on display at the International Petroleum Exposition in Tulsa, Okla. It attracted little ...

DICKINSON, N.D. -- When oil prices drop, rig workers winnow down and companies pull their drilling rigs into the Bakken's core, the discharged derricks and associated equipment have to go somewhere -- ...

FTS Derrick president Kenny Cai told Upstream he has approached SSI to upgrade two of the four units he has on order from the initial design of CJ50 to CJ54. Industry sources cited a requirement from ...

According to a well-placed industry source, the tracks that guide the top drive as it moves up and down the derrick are out of alignment. The source suggested that continued drilling could wear out ...

Since the first jackup was built in 1954, jackups have become the most popular type of mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) for offshore exploration and development purposes. In fact, there are ...

Smedvig has signed an agreement with Norsk Hydro to extend the drilling contract for the semi-submersible drilling rig West Venture. The extension of the drilling contract has a firm duration of two ...

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