New editors strengthen Offshore staff
Two new editors joined theOffshore team this month, and a third will be coming aboard next month.
Senior EditorDavid Paganie will take a leadership role in developing magazine, website, and eNewsletter content. He will also work closely with the PennWell conferences group in determining conference direction and content. Additionally, he will focus on specific editorial initiatives, including analysis of exploration projects, field development plans, and production systems.
Paganie comes to us from ODS-Petrodata, where he served as Editor - Offshore Field Development International. At ODS, he focused on the field development market outlook, offshore construction, and rig activity. He also wrote floating production analysis reports, recommended field development scenarios, and conducted FPSO and FSO valuations.
Prior to ODS-Petrodata, Paganie was employed by Baker Energy as a Technical Analyst, where he worked offshore in the Gulf of Mexico on a production platform to gain knowledge for the company’s business development. He conducted research and made recommendations to management to grow the company’s mechanical maintenance group.
Pamela Boschee joins the staff as International Editor. She will report E&P activities worldwide and will write most of the regional reports for the magazine. She’ll also play a major role in eNewsletter and website content and will take part in conference planning and execution.
Prior to joiningOffshore, Boschee served as managing editor of Electric Light & Power magazine, a leading national electric industry trade magazine, where she also wrote for the PennWell website and authored longer custom publishing projects for clients.
Boschee is recognized as an industry expert in electric power. In addition to developing conferences for PennWell, she has appeared as a speaker at industry events worldwide and served on a number of conference committees.
Boschee also worked for a number of years as a chemist at the Laidlaw Environmental Services National Analytical Laboratory, where she directed specialized crude analyses for refineries.
These new staff members - along with other planned editorial advancements - are being added to ensure that our coverage of the offshore industry keeps pace with the industry itself. TheOffshore team looks forward to working with you and other industry leaders to make that happen.
FPSO market growth
The demand for FPSOs is still growing, and appears destined to keep doing so for the foreseeable future. SBM Offshore reiterated that sentiment in its latest report to shareholders. SBM is riding a wave of new orders for FPSOs and other deepwater development systems. As the company puts it:
“The increase in contracting activity in the offshore oil and gas industry, which resulted in a satisfactory order intake in the second half of 2004, continued in 2005. The Company has been successful in securing in the first half of the year the lease contract from Murphy Oil for an FPSO for the Kikeh Field offshore Malaysia and a series of medium size turnkey supply orders for a variety of systems out of the product range of the Company.”
The order from Murphy for the gravity actuated pipe (GAP) fluid transfer system for the Kikeh field will be a first application of this long distance high pressure fluid transfer system, developed and patented by SBM, the company says. It is to be expected that the GAP will in the future facilitate the tie-back of TLP wellhead platforms or other satellite facilities to a central processing FPSO, a trend in many deepwater field development scenarios.
Most of the large contracts received during the year 2005 are for facilities producing in deepwater and are based on technology recently developed in-house, SBM says. “This is a confirmation of the definite trend in the oil and gas offshore industry...”