Control Products of Louisiana adds offshore services
Control Products of Louisiana introduces its offshore services.
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Enterprise increasing platform & pipeline capacity for Independence Hub
Enterprise Products Partners LP says it has secured agreements with the Atwater Valley Producers Group to increase both the processing capacity of the Independence Hub platform and the transportation capacity of the Independence Trail Natural Gas Pipeline from 850 MMcf/d to 1 Bcf/d.
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Pemex to add FPSO to Campeche project
Mexico's state oil company Pemex will add an FPSO to the Ku-Maloob-Zaap project in Campeche state to start operations in 2007, according to a Pemex spokesperson.
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Sembawang Shipyard awarded first GoM FPSO
Sembawang Shipyard, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SembCorp Marine, has secured an S$88 million contract from Bergesen Worldwide Offshore to convert the Ultra Large Crude Carrier BW Enterprise into an FPSO.
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Chevron boosts capital and exploratory budget by 35% in 2006
Chevron Corp. is planning a $14.8 billion capital and exploratory spending program for 2006, a 35% increase compared with estimated expenditures of approximately $11 billion in 2005.
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Chevron updates GoM post-hurricane status
Chevron Corp. says it has concluded assessments on the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on its offshore facilities in the GoM.
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Typhoon TLP ripped from moorings
Chevron says its Typhoon TLP was ripped from its moorings and was severely damaged when Hurricane Rita swept through the Gulf's waters over the weekend.
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Eastern GoM hub frees independent deepwater fields
Six fields on fast track to development
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Study looks at generic gas field production in ultra-deep GoM
EnerSea Transport LLC and Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Corp. awarded a study to Paragon Engineering Services Inc. and Advanced Production and Loading Inc. to develop the field architecture of a generic gas field in the ultra-deep Gulf of Mexico.
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Commercial deepwater fields trending deeper
The industry is increasingly employing floating and/or subsea production systems to develop deepwater fields, while the fields deemed commercially viable for development are trending deeper.
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Advances in technology change the face of LNG
Offshore technology promises to be the next step forward for a rapidly evol-ving and growing LNG industry.
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Pioneer flying high in Falcon corridor
With four discoveries – one onstream and three under development – the 32-block Falcon corridor investment has paid off for field operator Pioneer Natural Resources Co.
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The Schiehallion bogie bearing design applied to large-diameter FPSO turrets
BP selected SBM Inc.'s large-diameter internal turret to moor the Schiehallion FPSO in the harsh environments off-shore the Shetlands in the Atlantic Frontier area.
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Real-time data delivery evolving into informed execution
The automated oilfield, once a novel idea and vision for the future of the energy industry, has reached a point in its growth that is spurring an even greater revelation – the intelligent oilfield.
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New vessels, rigs, Upgrades
ExxonMobil Corp. subsidiary Mobil Produc-ing Nigeria Unlimited (MPN) has begun prod-uction from the Yoho development in OML 104 off Nigeria.
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World conventional oil supply expected to peak in 21st century
Crude oil resources in conventional reservoirs may well peak within this century. All or nearly all of Earth's prolific petroleum basins are believed to be identified, and most are partially to near-fully explored.
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Schlumberger safety valves set at record depth in Shell/BP development wells
Schlumberger Oilfield Services has set three surface-controlled subsurface safety valves (Scssv) below 10,000 ft in Mississippi Canyon block 522 in the Gulf of Mexico. The Schlumberger TRC-DH valves have been set at record depths in three wells in the Fourier field, one of five Na Kika development fields.
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Well intervention providers focus on completion, reservoir expertise
The downhole application has become the main focus of the well intervention sector. Oilfield service providers of downhole applications participate in the market as either providers of downhole tools or as operators of wireline, coiled tubing (CT), or hydraulic workover (HWO) equipment.
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Floating production growth continues into 2003
The year 2002 has been a rather disappointing one for the oil companies and their contractors, but the perspective for next year looks better.
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State-of-the-art of spread moored systems for deepwater floating production platforms
All floating production platforms (semisubmersible, Spar, FPSO, and TLP) are positioned by a station-keeping system. The primary function of this system is to constrain horizontal platform offsets to a "watch circle" that enables production and export risers to remain connected for the life of the field.
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Leadon FPSO delivered on time, complete, within budget
Timely field development with floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessels is an art, which few in the North Sea have mastered. One of those is Kerr-McGee, which last November brought the Leadon Field onstream, on time, and on budget, 14 months after project sanction.
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Drilling & Production
Conveyed without a wireline
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MMS approves use of FPSOs for Gulf of Mexico developments
The US Minerals Management Service has approved the use of floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) systems in the central and western Gulf of Mexico. The oil industry has sought to use FPSOs as it moves to develop fields in deeper areas of the gulf.
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PRODUCTION SYSTEMS: Extending rigless, unmanned minimal production designs into deeper water
Part of the lower-cost equation
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GULF OF MEXICO: Cantarell lift gas, nitrogen programs approaching 80% completion
60% of new production units ready
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