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Rig floor components and drill string handling tools

Rig Skills

Oil and gas rotary drilling rig have several tools at rig floor for handling drill string various components. Rig floor is a platform which provide work space for crew member for tripping drill pipe into or out of wellbore. It must kept open on rig floor to be used in well control situation.

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Force Majeure Clause Fails to Protect Oil and Gas Lessee From Mistakenly-Scheduled Deadline

The Energy Law Blog

In compliance with that obligation, MRC created a drilling schedule listing June 2, 2017 as the spud date of a new well based on its belief that the deadline to spud that well was June 19, 2017. On June 13, 2017, MRC sent force majeure letters to the lessors claiming that it experienced a delay in the well’s drilling around April 21, 2017.

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Upstream Midstream Downstream – What is the Difference?

Aresco

Upstream: Activities: Upstream refers to the exploration and production (E&P) phase of the oil and gas industry. It involves locating, surveying, drilling, and extracting crude oil and natural gas from underground reservoirs. Key Processes: Exploration, reservoir analysis, drilling, well completion, and production.

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Texas Court of Appeals Rules on Permission Needed for Off-Lease Horizontal Drilling

The Energy Law Blog

The Fourth Court of Appeals recently held that surface owners control the matrix of the underlying earth; thus, a surface owner can give permission to drill through the subsurface to an adjacent lease. Anadarko E&P Onshore, No. In Lightning Oil Co. 04-14-00903-CV , 2014 Tex. Lexis 8673 (Aug. Lexis 8673 (Aug.

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Fifth Circuit Identifies Potential Conflict with Supreme Court on Jones Act Seaman Test

The Energy Law Blog

3d 550, a three-judge panel of the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal held on August 14, 2020, that seaman status under the Jones Act may apply to an injured welder on a jack-up oil rig adjacent to an inland pier. Its employees work at its shop and yard and occasionally on jacked-up drilling rigs, often docked to inland piers.

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Fifth Circuit Identifies Potential Conflict with Supreme Court on Jones Act Seaman Test

The Energy Law Blog

3d 550, a three-judge panel of the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal held on August 14, 2020, that seaman status under the Jones Act may apply to an injured welder on a jack-up oil rig adjacent to an inland pier. Its employees work at its shop and yard and occasionally on jacked-up drilling rigs, often docked to inland piers.

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Possible Change to Jones Act Interpretations Regarding Coastwise Activities

The Energy Law Blog

Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) ten-year effort to amend its interpretation of key components of the Jones Act continues. Unlike its recent, unsuccessful efforts to amend its interpretations, the current proposal attempts to expand one prohibition while narrowing another. Merchandise/Vessel Equipment Vessel equipment is not merchandise.