Automation company Siemens has been awarded a contract by the Arabian Drilling Company to modernise a complete and integrated drilling-drive lineup, including auxiliary and control, to be installed on an offshore jack-up drilling rig for a Middle East customer
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Inmarsat launches satellite connectivity services in Saudi Arabia
Inmarsat, a mobile satellite communications provider, has announced that it will bring its maritime, aviation and enterprise connectivity solutions to customers based in Saudi Arabia through new partner agreements
Tendeka partners with Wellvene to deliver enhanced swellable sealing solution
Independent global completions service specialists Tendeka has worked with design engineering and manufacturing company Wellvene to create and qualify a new version of its swellable sealing solution, SwellStack
Halliburton introduces streaming unconventional well test data retriever
Halliburton has unveiled its SPIDRlive self-powered intelligent data retriever, an unconventional well testing and fracture interaction monitoring technology that acquires real-time well data without the need for intervention, reducing costs and improving fracture understanding for greater recovery
Flinders University and Clean Earth Technologies to commercialise oil spill technology
Australia’s Flinders University and Singapore-based Clean Earth Technologies (CET) have collaborated to build and develop a manufacturing facility in South Australia that will produce commercial quantities of the absorbent polysulfide