Volume 75, Issue 6

Operators can draw on an array of tools to predict the conditions for hydrates and waxes forming in their subsea production systems. Managing the resultant plugs in flowline networks...

As submarine gas pipelines are installed in ever-deeper waters, the challenge of pre-commissioning becomes more complex.

A risk assessment is a tool commonly employed by operators during the stages of an asset's life cycle, and can be used to varying degrees of depth and detail.

Floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) plants have both advantages and disadvantages, and they present unique challenges when it comes to automation.

With oil prices still hovering between low and critical levels, increasing production from both new and mature offshore fields is vital to maintaining profitability.

Subsalt oil and gas plays, which are found in major offshore basins from the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) and West Africa to Brazil and the North Sea, promise vast production potential...

Controlling costs was the central preoccupation of panelists at the plenary session at this year's SPE/IADC drilling conference in London.

Success begets success, and in the case of successful subsalt exploration and subsequent production, technology begets success, and that success drives even more technical advances...

The Mexican National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) announced that several oil and gas companies enrolled to bid for Mexico's acreage in shallow water, kicking off the first phase...

In mid-April, the US Department of Interior's (DOI) Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) released two new sets of...

Falling oil prices have begun to have a negative impact on drilling activities in the Gulf of Mexico.

CGG has added a western extension of the Horda BroadSeis-BroadSource 3D multi-client program in the northern North Sea offshore Norway.

In terms of exhibitor participation, the 2015 Offshore Technology Conference, colloquially known as OTC, was bigger and more extensive than it has ever been.

Douglas-Westwood forecasts that despite the current low oil price environment, between 2015 and 2019 $81 billion will be spent on FPS units - an increase of 73% compared to 2010...

At the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, FMC Technologies and Hayward Tyler Group entered into a production alliance agreement for the commercial manufacture of permanent...

While low oil prices are casting a shadow over Gulf of Mexico E&P activity, work is moving ahead on several projects, and recent assessments of operators' safety records have ...

Eni Norge's cylindrical FPSO for the Goliat field in the Barents Sea reached Hammerfest in April after a 60-day voyage from the Hyundai shipyard in South Korea.

The US Department of Interior has given Shell conditional approval to resume exploration drilling offshore Alaska after a break of two years.

This month, Infield Systems provides a snapshot of the ultra-deepwater market (+1,499 m/4,918 ft) in the US Gulf of Mexico (US GoM) up to 2019.

The state of drilling and production activity in the Gulf of Mexico could be characterized as a mixed bag.