Weatherford International NEWS

Weatherford announced that Mark A. McCollum, President, CEO, has left the company and its board of directors. Karl Blanchard, executive vice president and COO, and Christian Garcia, executive vice president and CFO, will form the Office of the Chief Executive, reporting directly to the board of directors and will oversee the day to day operations. With McCollum's departure, Weatherford will reduce the size of the board from seven directors to six.

Oilfield services giant, Weatherford International has introduced the Velox™ wellhead system, a best-in-industry solution for operators needing to lock in pressure integrity while enhancing safety and improving efficiency. Velox delivers unmatched isolation between casing strings with quick-connect components that maintain pressure control, reduce potential leak paths, and minimises non-productive time during installation in many applications, including high-pressure, high-temperature, and sour-gas wells.

Oilfield services major, Weatherford International yesterday registered a profit for the 4Q19, a first one in over six years. The Houston-based firm, which recently recovered from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, recorded a $5.3 billion in profits on more than $1.2 billion of revenue during the last quarter. The numbers were mixed on the $2.1 billion loss on $1.4 billion of revenue during the fourth quarter of 2018.

Oilfield services giant, Weatherford International has concluded its financial restructuring and came out of Chapter 11 protection. Weatherford has cut roughly $6.2 billion of outstanding funded debt, secured $2.6 billion in exit financing facilities, which also includes a $450 million revolving credit facility. Additionally, the US-based giant has secured a $195 million letter of credit facility, and secured over $900 million of liquidity.

Oilfield services major, Weatherford has secured its biggest-ever fishing and intervention contract from Petrobras. The deal valued at $87 million will see Weatherford delivering fishing and intervention services to Petrobras. The four-year contract awarded to the Brazilian state-run firm also represents the largest single global award for this kind of work in the recent past.

A new single-trip openhole and sidetrack system has been launched by Weatherford. The system can initiate sidetrack operations without a cement plug. AlphaST will enhance operator flexibility, eliminate multiple trips, and avoid costly cementing operations. Weatherford's President said, "AlphaST enables operators to avoid the cost and time of setting a cement plug; waiting on cement to dry and time drilling".

The world's first remote-activated, single-trip deepwater completion system has been introduced by Weatherford. This system reduces the installation time between 40% and 60% and rig time by four to six days. The system deploys radio-frequency identification technology and delivers intervention less operation in producer and injector wells. Weatherford's TR1P combines the upper and lower completions in one trip and has set a new industry benchmark.

Weatherford International has completed its sale of land drilling operations in Kuwait. The company has sold 12 drilling rigs to ADES International Holding for $123 million and the delivery of two idle land drilling rigs in southern Iraq are pending. Weatherford’s subsidiary signed a definitive agreement with ADES in July 2018 for the sale of its Algeria, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. It also included two idle rigs in Iraq.

USA’s oilfield services firm Weatherford International reported heavy losses in its third quarter earnings. The firm went through a loss of $199 million which is slightly less than a loss of $256 million last year. The revenue of the company also dropped and was $1.44 billion. The CEO of the company commented that this condition was due to the inefficiencies of supply chain and manufacturing.

Oilfield services provider, Weatherford International yesterday released a newly designed Rotaflex pumping unit which improves the artificial-lift efficiency in challenging applications, such as deep, high-volume and high Gas-to-liquids (GTL) wells. The new design has been enhanced in ways that it improves reliability and maintainability, provides greater accessibility, and comes with an enhanced lubrication system and a renewed ladder system.

ADES has entered into an acquisition agreement amounting to $287.5m to buy Weatherford subsidiary’s land drilling rig operations in Algeria, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia. The agreement will give ADES the ownership of 31 land drilling rigs and related drilling contracts. ADES International Holding has said that the deal will expand its total fleet and more than double its operational fleet. The deal is expected to close by 2018.

Magnus rotary steerable system has been introduced by Weatherford International. This push-the-bit tool combines reliable, high-performance drilling with precise directional control. According to the president of drilling and evaluation at Weatherford, the system represents a major shift in Weatherford’s approach to directional drilling and holds immense potential to disrupt the status-quo steerable rotary market.