India is expecting $2 billion in new investments to be made over the next eight years under the New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) IX program, which offers 34 blocks spread...
The addition of subsea booster pumping to a development increases the complexity of the safety system integration task over that of conventional subsea field developments. More...
The growing demand for fossil fuels means an increasing number of subsea pipelines to transport the oil and gas. This, in turn, has led to the application of various radioisotope...
Cairn Energy has contracted two deepwater DP rigs for a four-well exploration program this year offshore Greenland. The semisubmersible Leiv Eiriksson and the drillship Ocean ...
On most production facilities the number of industrial flammable gas bottles allowed on-site at any one time is kept to a low number. They are always stored away from locations...
The offshore oil and gas industry in the Gulf of Mexico is susceptible to natural and man-made disasters. From 2004-2008, five major hurricanes (Ivan, Katrina, Rita, Gustav, Ike...
Plug and abandonment operations face a long list of challenges, including rising costs, safety concerns, environmental issues, and rapidly growing demand. Conventional methods...
Over the past decade, the industry has had great success pushing into the deepwater frontier through innovation. However, this success has come with a price. There have been numerous...
The world’s first ocean bottom seismic node-on-node time-lapse (4D) monitor survey was acquired in 2009 at the Atlantis field in the Gulf of Mexico. Field operations went as planned...
The annual Subsea Tieback (SSTB) Forum & Exhibition returns to San Antonio Feb. 22-24, 2011, at the Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center. More than 3,000 attendees and 150 exhibitors...
Sooner or later, petroleum development of the Arctic Circle will take place. The technology exists today to safely and reliably develop the 25% of world oil and gas untapped reserves...
Research results over the past decade, including drilling and coring, experimental studies, and numerical simulations, are clarifying the resource potential of gas hydrates. Key...
Multiple offshore Arctic fields have been developed over the preceding three decades but there still is relatively little oil and gas being produced from the reportedly large ...
The annual Offshore Asia Conference & Exhibition heads to Singapore’s new Marina Bay Sands Resort on March 29-31 expecting to expand on its success in 2010. More than 5,000 attendees...
India expects $2 billion in fresh investments to be made over the next eight years in new exploration under the New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) IX program, which offers...
My first job after graduation was with CFEM, a French company that specialized in offshore mobile drilling units, such as barges, semis, and jackups. In the early 1980s, the programs...
The worldwide offshore rig market continues to suffer from oversupply as new rig deliveries outstrip demand. As new rigs built to ever-higher specifications are delivered, older...
The word is spreading across the land:The Gulf of Mexico is a unique natural resource that provides Americans everywhere with food, energy, and jobs that are essential to the ...
Good asset information is fundamental to good asset performance. Everyone involved in operating and maintaining an offshore production platform needs appropriate asset information...
BP and Geotrace, are joining for more POCS technology development. Projection Onto a Convex Set (POCS) originated at BP for use in interpolating or reconstructing seismic data...
Oil companies and support industries with US Gulf of Mexico operations have been collectively holding their breaths in anticipation of the next turn of events to emerge from Washington...
Noble Corp. has contracted with Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. for the construction of two ultra-deepwater drillships. Deliveries are expected in 2Q and 4Q of 2013 at a cost...
Aker Solutions has been awarded the Åsgard subsea compression system contract by Statoil. The contract value is approximately NOK 3.4 billion ($582.7 million).
Bruce Beaubouef • HoustonThe National Commission on the BPDeepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling investigation report was released to the public on Jan. 11, and some...
