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Unconventionals centre opens in Saudi Arabia
US oilfield services giant Baker Hughes has teamed with Saudi Aramco to open a research centre in Saudi Arabia focussed on understanding and developing unconventional resources.
Luke Johnson 29 February 2012 18:57 GMT
The new facility, which opened its doors on Wednesday in the Dhahran Techno-Valley, will help Saudi Arabia in its push into new frontiers of energy production.
Aramco has been looking to ramp up development of its natural gas resources and over the past two years has made a concerted effort to explore for more unconventional sources such as shale gas.
"Baker Hughes has made massive technological advances in unconventional resources, and as a result we have completely redefined the baseline," Baker Hughes chief executive Martin Craighead said in a release. "We recognise that the key to success and performance in unconventionals lies in the decisions made in the early phases of development."
The Dhahran facility will offer research opportunities in areas ranging from petrophysics, drilling, geomechanics, fluids and production technology.
It will add to Baker Hughes' existing infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, which also includes a drill-bit manufacturing plant that opened last year and a 100,000-square-metre operations centre that opened in 2010.
Published: 29 February
Now this, Bake also does research in China, Halliburton has a research center in Pune India....Microsoft, Apple all have research center in India... The best graduates are from the India Technology Insitutes.. it is a changing world.. time to notice it....Still the CEO of Chrysler is an Italain! This week fiat and Chrysler signed a agreement to do research in Russia as well as open a plant there... Qatar and Dubai are developing tertiary instiutes.. and the US, UK, Australaia are losing students...
Unconventionals centre opens in Saudi Arabia
US oilfield services giant Baker Hughes has teamed with Saudi Aramco to open a research centre in Saudi Arabia focussed on understanding and developing unconventional resources.
Luke Johnson 29 February 2012 18:57 GMT
The new facility, which opened its doors on Wednesday in the Dhahran Techno-Valley, will help Saudi Arabia in its push into new frontiers of energy production.
Aramco has been looking to ramp up development of its natural gas resources and over the past two years has made a concerted effort to explore for more unconventional sources such as shale gas.
"Baker Hughes has made massive technological advances in unconventional resources, and as a result we have completely redefined the baseline," Baker Hughes chief executive Martin Craighead said in a release. "We recognise that the key to success and performance in unconventionals lies in the decisions made in the early phases of development."
The Dhahran facility will offer research opportunities in areas ranging from petrophysics, drilling, geomechanics, fluids and production technology.
It will add to Baker Hughes' existing infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, which also includes a drill-bit manufacturing plant that opened last year and a 100,000-square-metre operations centre that opened in 2010.
Published: 29 February