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...But once they begin putting silicon wafers through the equipment, “it’s about making the small tweaks to see how we can optimise the process”....
...“If you look at the approach we’re taking to production, where you’re drilling wells 10,000 feet underground into these saltwater reservoirs — that’s obviously directly in our wheelhouse and capability set...
...Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd Sector: BATTERIES / HQ: NINGDE, CHINA China’s dominant maker of batteries for electric vehicles has boomed thanks to growing sales to global customers such as Tesla...
...Smaller rival Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co, China’s biggest contract chipmaker, is looking at building similarly advanced chip packaging capacity and has ordered equipment from some of TSMC...
...The new mine will replace existing BHP production, produce higher iron content and produce more lump product....
...We are interested in creating conditions for companies from Russia and KSA to extend the equipment and technology trade, joint venture for its production, as well as the provision of oilfield services....
...It will span core upstream and downstream energy businesses, plus oilfield services activities such as drilling, and the manufacturing of relevant equipment....
...the delivery of their equipment....
...Transocean, one of the largest offshore drilling contractors, relocated from the US to the Cayman Islands in 1999, and then to Switzerland in 2008....
...Many in the industry admit that unnecessary complexity and duplication is widespread — the result of business rivalries that hindered co-operation, causing industry costs to spiral....
...“If the Germans don’t want to deliver [drilling equipment and pipe systems], we will just buy from South Korea or China,” he told Der Spiegel last week....
...Stephen Colville, president of the International Association of Drilling Contractors, which represents rig operators and also production companies including BP, said: “It is unhelpful that we have multiple...
...They demand complex equipment such as drilling rigs, specialised materials such as sophisticated steel pipes, and highly-skilled engineers, all of which are in limited supply....
...Drilling deep Less than a century ago relatively little groundwater was used....
...For companies providing services for oil and gas production, from drilling to fracking to water management, the prizes could be even greater....
...“The real expertise has to come from those guys,” says Richard Anderson, chief financial officer of Eurasia Drilling Co, a big Russian oil services group....
...However, investors should not expect commercial drilling to begin for several years, the broker said....
...But Korean companies have fared better than Chinese and Japanese rivals as they continued to win orders for higher-margin oil drilling ships, liquefied natural gas carriers and offshore oil production facilities...
...Marathon Petroleum gained 1.4 per cent to $53.88 and oilfield services equipment marker National Oilwell Varco moved 2.6 per cent higher to $70.79....
...Shell suffers fresh blow to Arctic hopes: Royal Dutch Shell has been forced to abandon its plans to drill wells in the Arctic this year, after a vital piece of safety equipment was damaged during testing...
...Some production at the factory stopped because of the strike, said LG Display, the world’s second-largest maker of liquid crystal displays....
...It also blamed changes to import procedures applied this year by the Tanzanian Revenue Authority, which had left it short of construction equipment....
...Pioneers like chipmaker Intel and Samsung, the South Korean electronics group, have already set up factories in Vietnam and are ramping up production....
...For Mr Dworschak – the vice-president of Ecovix, which makes equipment for BG Group and Petrobras – the unorthodox recruitment strategy seems to be working....
...“We believe the price is ignoring uncertainty over US drilling activity and is too far ahead of events,” said Liberum, which moved to a “sell” rating....
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