First production from the deepwater Caesar/Tonga development not only represents the first application of steel lazy wave riser technology in the Gulf of Mexico, but also exemplifies the region's production resurgence in the post-Macondo era.

Total, then operator of deepwater block OML 138 offshore Nigeria, started first production from Usan field in February 2012. Usan water depths range down to 850 m (2,788 ft).

A single-well development of a field with modest reserves usually does not capture the headlines, but Total's Islay project in the North Sea stands out for the creative technical solutions it incorporates to overcome some challenging conditions.

On April 18, Saipem's laybarge Castoro Sei completed the final section of the second Nord Stream gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea.

As Thailand looks to expand the development of its offshore oil and gas resources, the commissioning of the Greater Bongkot South (GBS) gas and condensate field in the Gulf of Thailand is expected to be a major milestone toward that end.

In June 2009, Saipem SA successfully completed the subsea installation of the flowlines at the AKPO project in deepwater offshore Nigeria as part of the EPCI contract with Total.

Analysts RFC Ambrian claim that equity markets underestimate the potential for new petroleum discoveries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

In a year that has seen Petrobras CEO Maria das Graças Silva Foster opt for a more "realistic" approach to the company's forecasts by cutting production targets by 11%, Chevron and Transocean hindered by the courts, and as ExxonMobil and Shell look to divest some of their assets in the region, it appears that 2013 cannot come soon enough for Brazil's offshore oil and gas industry.

By definition, an intelligent well is one that has been equipped with instrumentation to monitor one or more well parameters, most likely temperature and pressure, plus some sort of servo-mechanism that can make changes based on the observations of the monitoring system.

The engineering and installation practices of conductors play a crucial role in a well's integrity.

In 2011, INTECSEA summarized the growing body of international Arctic field development knowledge in an Arctic technology poster.

As many offshore installations in the North Sea and farther afield are reaching the end of their expected design life but are still capable of production, operators are spending significant capex to assure the integrity of their assets and extend their lifespans.

Most of the processing capacity available in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico is unused, and there is some inherent value lying dormant.

SURF IM is a joint industry project (JIP) that aims to enable an integrated, consistent, and robust approach to integrity management (IM) of subsea, umbilical, riser, and flowline (SURF) systems, and to develop new best practice guidelines for subsea IM.

Small surges in pressure have typically been used for pipeline integrity management in applications such as leak detection. Large surges are more often viewed as an unwanted phenomenon.