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The Bertha Rogers Borehole is a former natural gas well in Burns Flat, Dill City, Oklahoma, US.Today plugged and abandoned, it was originally drilled by the Lone Star Producing Company as its oil-exploratory hole number 1–27 between October 25, 1972 and April 13, 1974, reaching a then world record terminal depth of 31,441 feet (5.9547 mi; 9,583 m).
In 1994, Rowan (now Valaris Limited), which had used the company to manufacture its drilling rigs, acquired the company from General Cable for $50 million. [4] [5] In 2011, Rowan (now Valaris Limited) sold LeTourneau Technologies to Joy Global. [6] Joy Global subsequently sold LeTourneau's Drilling, Marine, and Power divisions to Cameron ...
KCA Deutag is the merger of KCA Drilling and Deutag AG in 2001. [6] The company has regional offices in Germany, Russia, the Middle East, the Caspian region, North and West Africa, Asia, Norway and across its wider operations. [7] It has 61 land rigs and 39 offshore platforms with a long-established history across its operations [8]
All fields in British territory are operated as part of the BP's North Sea Strategic Performance Unit from their office in Dyce, Aberdeen.This includes some fields not strictly in the North Sea itself.
An explosion on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon occurred on April 20, 2010, killing 11 workers. The Deepwater Horizon sank on April 22, 2010, in water approximately 5,000 feet (1,500 m) deep, and was located resting on the seafloor approximately 1,300 feet (400 m) (about a quarter of a mile) northwest of the well.
An offshore drilling rig arrived at its destination in the Mediterranean Sea off Lebanon’s coast and will start operations in the coming weeks to search for gas, cabinet ministers said Wednesday.
Scarabeo 9 is one of the largest offshore drilling rigs in the world. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is the first (and as of 2012 the only) Frigstad Engineering developed Frigstad D90 design rig ever built. [ 5 ] The rig is able to operate at the water depth up to 11,811 feet (3,600 m), which is classified by the oil industry as "ultra-deepwater", and its ...
However, Domino’s, the world’s largest pizza chain with over 6,692 locations in the U.S., runs one of the country's most efficient pizza dough supply chains, with 18 supply centers producing ...