Aker Joins Baker Hughes in Subsea Production Alliance
From Oslo, Norway, and Houston, Texas, respectively Aker Solutions ASA and Baker Hughes Incorporated inform they have agreed to form an alliance to develop technology for production solutions that will boost output, increase recovery rates and reduce costs for subsea fields. Aker Solutions explain that the non-incorporated alliance will combine Aker Solutions' strengths in subsea production and processing systems with Baker Hughes' expertise in well completions and artificial-lift technology to deliver reliable, integrated in-well and subsea production solutions that will help mitigate risk
Baker Hughes, CGG, Sign RoqSCAN Drill Technology Agreement
Baker Hughes Incorporated informs that it has signed an exclusive agreement with CGG for RoqSCAN™ technology offered by CGG as part of Shale Science Alliance. Baker Hughes explain that RoqSCAN is a real-time, fully portable, quantitative and automated rock properties and mineralogical analyzer. Developed by Robertson, a CGG company, and Carl Zeiss Microscopy Ltd., RoqSCAN delivers highly quantitative compositional and textural mineralogical data from drilling cuttings or core pieces, revealing the mineralogical DNA of the reservoir. This service can be provided at the wellsite during
Rig Counts up from One Year Ago
Baker Hughes Incorporated (BHI) has announced that the international rig count for January 2014 was 1,325, down 10 from the 1,335 counted in December 2013, and up 46 from the 1,279 counted in January 2013. The international offshore rig count for January 2014 was 302, down four from the 306 counted in December 2013, and down five from the 307 counted in January 2013. The average U.S. rig count for January 2014 was 1,769, down two from the 1,771 counted in December 2013, and up 12 from the 1,757 counted in January 2013. The average Canadian rig count for January 2014 was 504, up 132 from the
Latest Offshore Rig Count
Baker Hughes Incorporated announce the international offshore rig count for January 2013 was 307, up 8 from the 299 counted in December 2012. The count is unchanged from the 307 counted in January 2012. The average U.S. offshore rig count for January 2013 was 53, up two from the 51 that were counted in December 2012 and up 10 from the 43 counted in December 2012. The Baker Hughes Rotary Rig Counts are counts of the number of drilling rigs actively exploring for or developing oil or natural gas in the United States, Canada and international markets. Baker Hughes has issued the rotary rig
February 2024
