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IDC Advances 15-Well Project in North Rumaila

Iraq Business News: Oil & Gas

During a site visit to rig IDC 59, Khalid Abbas Ali, Head of the First Drilling and Workover Department, explained that well R-839 is the first to be drilled under this contract for Halliburton, which operates under a day-rate system in the BECL-operated field. Preparations are under way to install 9 casing.

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Getting a Line on Wireline

Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

Click here to listen to the Audio verison of this story! Change comes to every sector of the oilfield, working its way through the various niches. Sometimes it comes by technological advance, sometimes by economic realities asserting themselves, sometimes by scarcity—or abundance—of resources. It’s been a momentous 2025 for the wireline niche.

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Subsea Plugging & Abandonment: Light Well Intervention Vessel Overview

Drillers

Category B: Vessel can perform workover (pulling and running tubing) and riser operations with coiled tubing (CT) ability. In addition, these units are equipped with workover equipment which implies that they can perform full P&A operations and a variety of well interventions. MODUs or cat.

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Unclear Jury Instructions Allow for Various Interpretations

Producer's Edge

Background of the Dispute In this case ( Lario Oil & Gas Co. Thereafter, Black Hawk began a workover job on the Peggy 101 Well to replace an electric submersible pump (ESP), during which they encountered issues with well pressure and corroded tubing. Black Hawk) entered into a Master Service Agreement (MSA). Lario appealed.

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Production in Paying Quantities: Maintaining Mineral Leases Beyond Their Primary Terms with Production of Oil or Gas

The Energy Law

4] Paying quantities cases usually focus on what expenses constitute “operating expenses.” In Louisiana, as in most jurisdictions, production of oil or gas must be in “paying quantities” to maintain a mineral lease beyond its primary term. [1] 5] They include fixed or periodic cash expenditures incurred in the daily operation of a well.

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Production in Paying Quantities: Second Circuit Holds Lower Courts Must Consider All Relevant Factors, Not Just Profit

The Energy Law

While not particularly groundbreaking, Middleton does provide further guidance to mineral lessees and litigators with respect to the relevant factors and time period considered in a paying quantities case. EP Energy E&P Co., 50,300-CA (La. Ultimately, the Second Circuit reversed the district court’s judgment on other grounds.

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Louisiana Second Circuit Finds Holder of Mortgage Encumbering a Mineral Lease Solidarily Liable with Mineral Lessees for Damages Under the Louisiana Mineral Code

The Energy Law

1] In the case, a landowner sued its mineral lessees for: (1) failure to provide a recordable act evidencing the expiration of a mineral lease under Mineral Code articles 206-209 and (2) failure to pay royalties under Mineral Code articles 137-140. [2] Tauren Exploration, Inc. , 4] $242,029.26 6] $936,803.00 Tauren Exploration, Inc. ,

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