Since the first oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was built in 14 feet of water off the coast of Louisiana in 1938, offshore oil and gas companies have drilled in ever deeper waters to prospect for black ...

Norwegian offshore driller Dolphin has signed a contract to reactivate one of its idle deep-water rigs for operations in the UK North Sea that could potentially last up to five years. Dolphin Drilling ...

A slide and compound drilling model calculates build-up rate (BUR) of a single bent-angle motor assembly using a physical model and genetic-algorithm back propagation (GA-BP) regression analysis. A ...

Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petrobras has launched a fresh tender for the charter of one or more deep-water rigs to carry out exploration and development drilling in the Campos and Santos ...