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  • Volume 75, Issue 9

    • Volume 75, Issue 9

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    Drilling & Completion

    Environmental Drilling & Completion Fluids Directory

    Sept. 28, 2015
    Get the latest detailed and comprehensive listing of environmental drilling and completion fluids available on the market.
    Equipment Engineering

    Leadership and experience cannot be automated

    Sept. 10, 2015
    In a recent Time article on efforts to humanize robotics, the author leads with the declaration, "Let me correct an impression you may have: robots are pretty much idiots."
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    People on the move

    Business Briefs

    Sept. 10, 2015
    PeopleWärtsilä's board of directors has appointedJaakko Eskolaas president and CEO. He will assume the position on Nov. 1, 2015, succeeding Björn Rosengren, who will become the...
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    Pipelines

    Composite riser study confirms weight, fatigue benefits compared with steel

    Sept. 10, 2015
    Hybrid system could extend drilling water depths
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    Equipment Engineering

    DeepStar mooring study to form basis of new API RP

    Sept. 10, 2015
    Moorings on floating production units (FPU) are safety critical systems subjected to numerous forms of degradation caused by the harsh ocean environment and more than 20 years...

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    Equipment Engineering

    Lagos base targeting major increase in local content for Egina topsides

    Sept. 10, 2015
    Nigeria's first purpose-built deepwater logistics base and offshore fabrication yard is preparing for the country's next wave of developments involving giant FPSOs.
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    Deepwater

    Mexico opens its deepwater frontiers to new exploration

    Sept. 10, 2015
    Significant resources await investment, development
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    Subsea

    Total's Egina oil field to come online in 2017

    Sept. 9, 2015
    Deepwater project complies with Nigerian content law
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    Subsea

    Aasta Hansteen project marks several firsts offshore Norway

    Sept. 9, 2015
    Jessica TippeeAssistant EditorNorway's first deepwater development, Aasta Hansteen, is expected to see first production in 4Q 2017. Discovered by BP in 1997, the field, formerly...
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    Production

    Gulf operators move forward with benchmark projects

    Sept. 9, 2015
    Anadarko, Shell continue to break deepwater records
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    Deepwater

    Future deepwater developments bring challenges, opportunities

    Sept. 9, 2015
    Demand for oil and gas is forecast to increase steadily for the next several decades.
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    European Commission issues new offshore safety directive

    Sept. 9, 2015
    The readers of Offshore magazine are no doubt familiar with the events and consequences of the April 20, 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon...
    Equipment Engineering

    Real-time monitoring systems improve riser integrity and management

    Sept. 9, 2015
    Ian VerhappenIndustrial Automation Networks Inc.Every offshore facility has a riser, but unfortunately not all facilities have real-time monitoring systems to confirm the integrity...
    Equipment Engineering

    Topsides standardization initiative shows early signs of success

    Aug. 19, 2015
    The importance of developing a standard topsides interface, including a standard communication protocol, remains paramount for both cost and risk reasons; 2015 might finally be...
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    Geosciences

    GEOSCIENCES

    Aug. 19, 2015
    The prospect of acquiring permits offshore Mexico has generated geoscience activities in anticipation of leasing rounds to come.
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    Regional Reports

    DRILLING & PRODUCTION

    Aug. 19, 2015
    Jackup rigs have been around for a long, long time. In the evolution of offshore drilling, the only techniques that preceded jackups were submersible rigs and drilling tenders...
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    Vessels

    VESSELS, RIGS, & SURFACE SYSTEMS

    Aug. 19, 2015
    New findings show that 50% of crews working on offshore support vessels are willing to compromise safety rather than say "no" to clients or senior management, while nearly 80%...
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    Vessels

    VESSELS, RIGS, & SURFACE SYSTEMS

    Aug. 19, 2015
    In its recently published 3Q 2015 Floating Production Systems Report, Energy Maritime Associates (EMA), analyzed the latest market activity for all types of floating production...
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    Vessels

    VESSELS, RIGS, & SURFACE SYSTEMS

    Aug. 19, 2015
    New findings show that 50% of crews working on offshore support vessels are willing to compromise safety rather than say "no" to clients or senior management, while nearly 80%...
    Musarra
    Subsea

    SUBSEA SYSTEMS

    Aug. 19, 2015
    Statoil says the world's first subsea wet gas compressor station is in place on the seafloor near the Gullfaks C platform in the Norwegian North Sea.
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    Regional Reports

    More good news, bad news for Gulf E&P

    Aug. 19, 2015
    Exploration activity in the Gulf of Mexico continues to see new positive milestones, driven by past discoveries and recent field development; and more discouraging ones, owing...
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    Regional Reports

    GULF OF MEXICO

    Aug. 19, 2015
    Mexico's oil regulator has unveiled more attractive rules for the second phase of the country's Round One oil auction, according to a report in the Latin American Herald Tribune...
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    Regional Reports

    GLOBAL E&P

    Aug. 19, 2015
    The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board has conditionally approved Husky Energy's amended development plan for the White Rose extension project.
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    Regional Reports

    OFFSHORE EUROPE

    Aug. 19, 2015
    Norway's Parliament (Storting) has approved Statoil's plan for development and operation of the Johan Sverdrup field in the Norwegian North Sea, the country's largest-scale offshore...
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    Deepwater

    GLOBAL DATA

    Aug. 19, 2015
    As a result of the current market downturn, several planned capital intensive deepwater developments have witnessed delays in recent months. Capex spend in water depths of 500...
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    Field Development

    Rising oil production fuels bleak outlook

    Aug. 19, 2015
    Despite the dramatic fall in oil prices, crude oil production, led by the US, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq, has been rising. This trend has been keeping supply well above the demand...
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    Field Development

    Opportunities still to be found in North Sea E&P

    Aug. 19, 2015
    The North Sea is this month's geographic nexus, but operations there range from field abandonment to frontier exploration. In this sense, most every operating arena in the world...
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    Drilling & Completion

    2015 Rotary steerable systems directory

    April 9, 2015
    Get the latest detailed and comprehensive listing of rotary steerable systems available on the market.
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    Drilling & Completion

    Advances in rotary steerable systems improve efficiency

    April 9, 2015
    The first patents for so-called steerable systems were issued in the late 1800s, and applied primarily in water wells. A full century passed before modern rotary steerable systems...
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    Field Development

    Feasibility study assesses two dry tree options for the Gulf of Mexico

    April 9, 2015
    Operators in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) are increasingly looking to ultra-deepwater (5,000-ft/1,524-m water depth) fields and more challenging reservoirs to deliver the hydrocarbons...