Volume 74, Issue 2

Decommissioning is the inevitable final chapter in an operating well's life cycle, in which the well is no longer producing at economically sustainable rates and must be safely...

Since 1966, 45,000 km (27,962 mi) of pipeline has been installed in the North Sea to transport hydrocarbons from the UK continental shelf (UKCS) to shore.

Thanks to their vast production potential and their prolific presence in major offshore fields throughout the world, subsalt oil and gas plays are simply too big to be ignored...

Subsalt regions are important to oil and gas companies due to significant hydrocarbon potential, although they also present high exploration and production risk.

The FPSO supply chain is broken.

Pick up an issue of Offshore - any month, any year - and you have the offshore industry itself in your hands, encapsulated and preserved for posterity in black and white.

For more than a decade, deepwater fields have been in production offshore West Africa.

Despite a number of new discoveries around the world, rising development costs, some notable project delays, and questions about equipment delivery are shaping up to make 2014...

With offshore regulatory activity at a high in West Africa, now is a good time for a brief overview of the legal and regulatory developments coming up in the region's key oil ...

TGS has started fast in 2014.

What is the future of unconventional gas offshore?

Ocean Rig took delivery of the newbuild drillship Ocean Rig Skyros in December.

FMC Technologies has agreed to manufacture and supply a workover system (WOS) to Statoil for the Snorre B platform.

The US Gulf of Mexico has proved to be a bright spot for oilfield service companies over the last year or so, according to recent analysis from Trefis, the online securities analyst...

Preparations are moving forward for the mammoth Johan Sverdrup project in the Norwegian North Sea.

Greenland's government has awarded exploration licenses for four blocks in the Greenland Sea off the country's northeast coast.

This month Infield Systems examines trends in capex relating to infrastructure and water depth over the next five years offshore West Africa.

A sustained period of elevated project costs is having a profound impact on the industry.