KSA National Day – Ulterra Bit

Yes, we did it! To commemorate the 90th Saudi Arabian National Day, we went ahead and custom painted a drill bit to fit the occasion!

Al-Othman Holding Makes The Forbes Top 100 Arab Family Businesses In The Middle East 2020

As part of Al-Othman Holding; GOtech is proud to announce, that Al-Othman Holding was featured in the Forbes Top 100 Family Businesses in the Middle East in 2020.

GOtech Welcomes SERTECPET as a Partner

Gas and Oil Technologies (GOtech) has entered into a material agreement with SERTECPET BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, CORP., a company incorporated in the State of Texas – USA. Their know-how, standards and international patents warrant our industry in order to promote technology and services in the local Saudi market.

To learn more about SERTECPET, please visit their website:http://www.sertecpet.net/

Sekal to install DrillTronics on five Transocean harsh environment semi-submersible drilling rigs

Transocean, the world’s largest Deep Water Drilling Contractors, and our partner; Sekal, the world’s leading provider of model-based automatic drilling control systems (DrillTronics),  have collaborated to integrate the DrillTronics technology on four semi-submersible drilling rigs, all operating on long term contracts for Equinor in the North Atlantic and Barents Sea region. The award also includes an upgrade on one drilling rig were the system has been in successful use since September 2017…

Read more: https://sekal.com/drilltronics-on-transocean-drilling-rigs/

Read the Transocean Announcement Here

Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology Visit

GOtech was honored by the visit from Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology: Dr. Yasuhiro Yamada: Director, Research and Development Center for Ocean Drilling Science and Dr. Kyaw Moe: Deputy Director, Principal Research Scientist from Research and Development (R&D) Center for Ocean Drilling Science (ODS), leaded the delegation to Saudi ARABIA, visiting King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and Jointly with GOtech’s General Manager; Mr. Mohammed Arakzeh visited Saudi ARAMCO’s Advanced Research Center (ARC) of Exploration and Petroleum Engineering Departments,  and had a general discussion about Drilling Planning and Technology Developments for Extreme Environments.

About JAMSTEC:

Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) has the main objective to contribute to the advancement of academic research in addition to the improvement of marine science and technology by proceeding the fundamental research and development on marine, and the cooperative activities on the academic research related to the Ocean for the benefit of the peace and human welfare.

Center for Ocean Drilling Science(ODS) objective to promote International Ocean Discovery Program which is led by Japan. Their believed as stated by Dr. Yamanda is: “creating new drilling science in exploring the Earth’s interior using advanced drilling technology to clarify the unified scope of the ocean, earth and life system”

To learn more about JAMSTEC, please visit: https://anperc.kaust.edu.sa/Pages/2019-JAMSTEC.aspx

John Gellert Visits GOtech

Our colleague and partner John Gellert; President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of Seacor Marine Holdings Inc. recently visited GOtech’s offices in a meeting of the partners. On behalf of Mohammed Al-Naimi and Abdulaziz Al-Othman, we would like to thank you for your visit and look forward to many visits to come.

Maria Mejia – 25 Influential Women in Energy 2019

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate our colleague and partner; Maria Mejia, who has been announced as an honoree for the 2019 Oil and Gas Investor 25 Influential Women in Energy! Maria and other nominees will be honored at the second annual Women in Energy Luncheon on February 12, 2019 in Houston.

To read more about Maria and other nominees: Click Here

Saudi-U.S. CEO Forum, May 21, 2017