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Recent Rotary Rig Count May 17th, 2013



AREA

 LAST
COUNT
DATE

COUNT 

CHANGE FROM
PRIOR COUNT
 

DATE OF
PRIOR COUNT 

 CHANGE FROM 
LAST YEAR

DATE
OF LAST
 YEARS COUNT 

UNITED STATES 

5/17/13 

1769
+0
5/10/13

-217

5/18/12

CANADA 

5/17/13
118
+5

5/10/13

0

5/18/12 

USA OFFSHORE 

5/17/13 

 52
+2
5/10/13

 +5

5/18/12 

INTERNATIONAL 

04/2013 

1301

 +33

3/2013 

 +123

4/2012 



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November 2010 Blog Posts (3)

What is Flow Check?

What is flow check?



Flow check is the period that you stop operations such as drilling, tripping pipe and circulating and monitor the well in order to see whether the well is static or not. The time for flow check should be enough to confirm the status of a well. It might be few minutes or it could be as long as 30 minutes depending on the well situation. Normally, many operators… Continue

Added by Rachain Jetjongjit on November 18, 2010 at 9:00pm — No Comments

What is a trip tank?

Trip Tanks are small metal tanks with small capacity about 20-40 bbls with 1 bbl divisions inside and it is used to monitor the well. There are several operations that we can use the trip tank to monitor the well as follows;

 

 

1. Trip Out Of Hole (TOOH): While…

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Added by Rachain Jetjongjit on November 18, 2010 at 9:00pm — No Comments

COMPLACENCY

My word: COMPLACENCY

 

I mentioned the word 'COMPLACENCY' on Day 2 of the disaster. I then got away from this…

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Added by Alan Fortune on November 12, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

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