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ConocoPhillips & PD 868: Robotics Redefining Drilling in the Canada

Oil Gas Leads

This system eliminates the need for traditional floor and derrick hands during connections, relying instead on a three-armed robotic system that performs tasks with precision, speed, and safety. At the forefront is PD 868 , North America’s first land-based drilling rig equipped with modular robotics to automate pipe handling.

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What It’s Like To Work On An Offshore Oil Rig

Drillers

The oil and gas industry takes its health and safety seriously so it has developed the Basic Offshore Safety Induction and Emergency Training Course, or BOSIET , which you would need to complete before you board the helicopter to the platform. The Derrick hands are responsible for the drilling mud and the mud pumps.

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Made In The Permian Basin

Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

Every time I drive into Midland for hitch from East Texas I see more and more facilities being built, observes Luis Raymundo, Lead Chemical Operator at Refined Completions. Derrick Black Recently I toured OSIs manufacturing facility in Odessa with Derrick Black, who oversees the firm’s Business Development department.

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