Transocean Ltd. RIG along with partner Enhanced Drilling established the latest Enhanced Kick Detection (“EKD”) system for rapid kick detection, which enables safe drilling rig operations.

KENNER, LA. -- Long before an eruption of gas turned the Deepwater Horizon oil rig into a fireball, an alarm system designed to automatically alert the crew and prevent combustible gases from ...

Central control stations have become standard issue for advanced drilling vessels. Drillers can now monitor and even control hoisting, pipehandling, well control, mud pumps, and solids control ...

Halliburton and Sekal have announced the deployment of what they claim to be the world's first automated on-bottom drilling system for Equinor in the North Sea. The innovative system integrates ...

Seadrill, an offshore drilling rig operator headquartered in Bermuda with its principal offices in London and Houston, has unveiled the West Mira, the company's first hybrid offshore drilling rig.

Halliburton Company HAL and Sekal AS recently made a technology breakthrough in upstream oil operations by deploying the world’s first automated on-bottom drilling system. The automation ...

US-based integrated drilling services, equipment and performance tooling provider Boart Longyear has added an industry-first integrated core orientation system – TruCore – to its product range.

Click here to enlarge image. Of the drilling rigs currently in Precision's rig fleet, 7% are the slant-drilling rigs. Since 1990, Precision has designed, built, or refurbished 15 such rigs, which ...