$160-million Stybarrow EPIC contract awarded
BHP Billiton Petroleum Pty. Ltd. has awarded Technip Oceania Pty. Ltd. and Subsea 7 Australia Pty. Ltd. a $160 million contract for the deepest subsea production system to date in Australia.
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Anadarko planning Tonga subsea tieback
Anadarko plans to accelerate development of its Tonga (Green Canyon block 727) discovery.
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SUBSEA/SURFACE SYSTEMS
The Western Australia Energy Research Alliance has targeted seabed gas processing as its first research project.
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Group to study subsea dehydration system
The Western Australia Eneregy Research Alliance has targeted seabed gas processing as its first research project. The target of the three-year project is to prove the feasibility of a subsea dehydration system.
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Woodside, TSMarine sign rigless intervention contract
Woodside Energy Ltd. and TSMarine Ltd. signed a three-year contract for field work starting 2Q07 for rigless intervention services from the Havila Harmony in Australia's North West Shelf, the Timor Sea joint petroleum development area, and other regional locations.
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Stybarrow FPSO mooring system awarded
A contract for a turret mooring system for an FPSO for Stybarrow field, offshore northwest Australia, has been awarded by Modec Inc. to FMC.
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Gas demand driving upsurge in Asia-Pacific pipelay
Two major offshore projects to begin
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Monitoring subsea events and operations, sandface to the host facilities
Surveillance system innovations
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ESPs selected for environmentally sensitive offshore Western Australia
ROC Oil has selected Centrilift’s electrical submersible pump (ESP) systems for its Cliff Head field development project offshore Western Australia.
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Global Data
This month Infield Systems Ltd looks at the trend of non-associated gas vs. oil production wells worldwide from 1995-2014. This note examines currently visible prospects and makes no attempt to estimate yet-to-be-found reserves. Only a concerted exploration effort by the industry in the next few years can reverse the decline in oil well figures.
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FMC Technologies signs subsea contract
FMC Technologies Inc. has signed a contract with Woodside Energy Ltd. to supply subsea systems for the Perseus-over-Goodwyn (PoG) project offshore Western Australia. The contract value to FMC Technologies is approximately $44 million in revenue and is within the scope of the preferred supplier agreement for subsea systems signed in 2003 between FMC Technologies and Woodside Energy.
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Next round of projects will require more technology
By the time the current group of long-distance tieback (LDT) projects - Snøhvit, Ormen Lange, and phase two of West Delta Deep - have been completed, the novelty of the LDT may have just about worn off.
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Drilling & Production
New measurement-while-drilling (MWD) and logging-while-drilling (LWD) depth and pressure records have been set for the Gulf of Mexico.
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Malampaya development project presented unique challenges
The Malampaya deepwater gas-to-power (GTP) project represents the largest and most significant industrial investment in the history of the Philippines. The $4.5-billion project is expected to produce enough fuel to generate 2,700 Mw of power for 20 years – 30% of the Philippines' entire power generation requirements.
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Surf vehicle rides high for coring, construction
Drilling the seabed in search of geotechnical information in the volatile surf zone is a daunting and difficult task.
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PNG gas project facing many environmental challenges
The proposed route of the PNG pipeline will take it through a variety of hostile conditions requiring unique engineering solutions. [106,776 bytes] Chevron's proposed gas export pipeline from Papua New Guinea (PNG) to Australia faces shallow waters, shipping lanes, heavy currents, and a scoured bottom. Still, Richard Heard, Lead Marine Pipeline Engineer, believes the 2,600-km pipeline can be laid in a year's time.
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SUBSEA TECHNOLOGY Unmanned control buoy in charge of East Spar gas production
Control buoy for East Spar [53152 bytes] Sea Commander, a remote unmanned well control buoy design first patented in 1980, was recently employed in its most sophisticated application to date. The project was for Australia's East Spar alliance, which commissioned the buoy to control four subsea gas wells, 62 km off the Northwest Shelf.
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WELDING REPORT Maui pipeline sets stainless steel hyperbaric challenge for Otto
Weighing around 50 tons, SubSea Offshore's free-standing habitat is lowered into the Taranaki Bight. The pod on top of the habitat is the weld power source for the Otto automated hyperbaric system. Following completion this May of a biennial pipeline weld for Tokyo Gas, Aberdeen-based SubSea Offshore's automatic orbital TIG system (Otto) remains in the forefront of welding technology.
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