RPSEA selects projects for the 2008 ultra deepwater program

    Sept. 3, 2009
    The Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA) has selected twelve proposals for negotiations leading to an award under the 2008 Ultra-Deepwater Program.

    Offshore staff

    SUGAR LAND, Texas -- The Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA) has selected twelve proposals for negotiations leading to an award under the 2008 Ultra-Deepwater Program.

    “These twelve projects continue to build the integrated research portfolio envisioned by the 2007 and 2008 approved Annual Plans for the Ultra-Deepwater and Unconventional Natural Gas and Other Petroleum Resources Research and Development Program to develop technologies and architectures for operations in ultra-deepwater,” says C. Michael Ming, RPSEA’s president. “This program is designed to bring the resources of America’s leading universities, research institutions and technology innovators to bear on the development of domestic resources in water depths of 1,500 m (4,921 ft) or greater by reducing costs, increasing efficiency, improving safety and minimizing environmental impacts.”

    The selected projects are:

    Coil tubing, drilling, and intervention systems using cost-effective vessel
    Project leader: Nautilus International
    Additional project participants: GE Oil & Gas, NOV CTES, INTECSEA, Tidewater Marine, University of Tulsa, Texas A&M University

    New safety barrier testing methods
    Project leader: Southwest Research Institute

    Riserless intervention system (RIS)
    Project leader: DTC International
    Additional project participants: Superior Energy Services, NOV Texas Oil Tools, Deepwater Research, Det Norske Veritas (USA)

    Advanced steady-state and transient, 3D, Single and multiphase, non-Newtonian simulation system for managed pressure drilling
    Project leader: Stratamagnetic Software

    Technologies of the future for pipeline monitoring and inspection
    Project leader: University of Tulsa
    Additional project participant: T.D. Williamson,

    Wireless subsea communications systems
    Project leader: GE Global Research
    Additional project participant: Northeastern University

    Replacing chemical biocides with targeted Bacteriophages in deepwater pipelines and reservoirs
    Project leader: Phage Biocontrol
    Additional project participants: Texas A&M University, Shell International Exploration & Production, ConocoPhillips, Petrobras America, Halliburton, Nalco, Multi-Chem, BJ Services, Champion Technologies, Intertek Group, INTECSEA, Livermore Instruments

    Enumerating Bacteria in deepwater pipelines in real-time at a negligible marginal cost per analysis: A proof of concept study
    Project leader: Livermore Instruments
    Additional project participants: Phage Biocontrol, Texas A&M University, ConocoPhillips, Shell International Exploration & Production, Petrobras America, Halliburton, Nalco Company, Multi-Chem, BJ Services, Champion Technologies, Intertek Group, INTECSEA

    Fiber containing sweep fluids for ultra-deepwater drilling applications
    Project leader: University of Oklahoma
    Additional project participant: M-I SWACO

    Heavy viscous oils PVT for ultra-deepwater
    Project leader: Schlumberger

    Early reservoir appraisal, utilizing a well testing system
    Project leader: Nautilus International
    Additional Participants: Knowledge Reservoir, Expro International Group, General Marine Contractors, INTECSEA, Louisiana State University, University of Tulsa, Texas A&M University, GE Oil & Gas, Tidewater Marine

    Ultra-reliable deepwater electrical power distribution system and power components
    Project leader: GE Global Research
    Additional Participants: Texas A&M University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, GE Oil & Gas.

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