DRILLING BOOM ADDS TO OILTECH PROSPECTS IN MIDDLE EAST
January 1st, 2013
SO diverse are the Middle East’s oil and gas reservoirs and the environmental conditions encountered that companies focused on optimising exploration and production view the region as a giant laboratory for proving new technologies.Its oil also varies hugely in viscosity, from the Arab Light crude of Saudi Arabia’s Al Khurais onshore field to the heavy crudes in Oman’s Mukhaizna onshore field.To add to the excitement, a drilling boom is underway on and offshore with oil around USD100 per barrel and the era of easily extracted hydrocarbons drawing to an ...
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