So you think you can manage a drilling operation?
- simulation 1
- Build, Drill and Connect
- simulation 2
- Brave the elements
- simulation 3
- Handle equipment, lead a team
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Monday, March 15 2010
3:00 PM
Licence To Drill: Cabin Fever
The drill bit veers off course at Nabors' rig and the pressure is on to complete two wells in time to connect a pipeline from northern B.C. to Washington State; MGM pins its last hopes on its final well of the season but a tool keeps breaking down.
Duration: 60 minutes
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Tuesday, March 16 2010
2:00 PM
Licence To Drill: The Long Haul
A freak heat wave hits the MGM camp, opening deadly cracks in the ice road just as they are about to move their rig to the second well; Nabors' rig is finally drilling steadily when they hit a pocket of tough chert three kilometres down.
Duration: 60 minutes
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Monday, March 22 2010
3:00 PM
Licence To Drill: Last Dash
Nabors blasts open its two wells using a complex engineering procedure that will tell whether their investment has paid off; north of the Arctic Circle, the MGM crew has only days to complete their third well and clear out before the ice melts.
Duration: 60 minutes
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Tuesday, March 23 2010
2:00 PM
Licence To Drill: Paydirt
A completions crew arrives in the Arctic to test MGM's first well for gas while a convoy of men assembles the rig at the second site; down south, Nabors hustles to finish drilling its first well a month behind schedule.
Duration: 60 minutes
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Sunday, March 28 2010
9:00 AM
Licence To Drill: The Big Freeze
Two teams hunt for natural gas in the remote Canadian North; 300 kilometres above the Arctic Circle, the MGM crew fights for survival in a monster winter snowstorm; in Northern B.C., the Nabors' team flies their rig in using a helicopter.
Duration: 60 minutes
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Drillers Simulation Game
Drillers Arcade Game
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- Well 3 complete
- Well 2 complete
- Well 1 complete
MGM is a junior energy company based in Calgary with a huge stake in Canada’s Far North. With exploration rights to more than one million hectares of land in the Arctic, there’s nothing junior about its plans. To date, MGM has risked $140 million searching for natural gas in one of the most extreme environments in the world. This year it will drill three gas wells north of the Arctic Circle in an icy desert where temperatures plunge to – 70 °C and winter storms can be deadly.
Energy companies have long suspected that the Canadian Arctic is a treasure chest of gas reserves, but few have taken the gamble. The extreme conditions and difficulty of drilling...
- Well 2 complete
- Well 1 complete
NABORS DRILLING is the largest land-drilling contractor in the world; a multinational corporation with a growing interest in the production end of the oil and gas business. This year, Nabors has a multi-million-dollar stake in a natural gas field in northern British Columbia. It’s a new play to try to squeeze gas out of shale. But it’s buried thousands of metres below vast tracts of marshy swampland called muskeg.
Historically, oil and gas companies wait for the muskeg to freeze over in wintertime before trucking in their drilling rigs. Nabors is trying something radically different. With a specially designed drilling rig and the world’s biggest helicopter in production, they plan to airlift...
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