In 2006, Russia’s CJSC Elvary Neftegaz, a joint venture between OAO Rosneft and BP Exploration Operating Co. Ltd., drilled the top hole sections of two wells off Sakhalin Island using a riserless ...

Scientists have engineered an ultra-deepwater drilling technology for use by drilling vessels in scientific research. Originally developed for shallow-water oil and gas exploration, the "riserless mud ...

LONDON, July 7-- Korea National Oil Corp. (KNOC) signed a $9 million drilling contract with AGR Drilling Services to use its riserless mud recovery system technology off Sakhalin Island later this ...

AGR Drilling Services, together with their Joint Industry Project partners Shell, BP and the Norwegian Research Council, have undertaken a successful field trial of the Deepwater Riserless Mud ...

Until now, the technique has been making its mark on semi-submersibles. AGR Group chief executive Sverre Skogen said:“This is a significant breakthrough agreement for us, expanding the potential ...

Statoil is the first operator in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico to adopt the Riserless Mud Recovery (RMR) system that reduces discharges to sea. This environmentally sensitive drilling solution has been used ...

Norwegian contractor Enhanced Drilling said it has completed a top-hole batch riserless mud recovery drilling campaign of five wells at Shell's Malikai phase two development offshore Malaysia. It was ...

Statoil is the first operator in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico to adopt the Riserless Mud Recovery (RMR) system that reduces discharges to sea. This environmentally sensitive drilling solution has been used ...

Washington, DC—The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), in collaboration with industry partner AGR Drilling Services, has engineered an ultra-deepwater drilling technology for use by IODP ...