The International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts that hydrocarbon production from deepwater reservoirs will grow from 5 MMb/d in 2007 to 9.5 MMb/d in 2023. By then it will represent...
Subsea technology is evolving quickly to cope with the growing needs of the oil and gas industry and oceanography. AUVs are going to play increasingly important roles ranging ...
Saipem is preparing to install novel pipeline support structures on ExxonMobil’s Kizomba Satellites project off Angola. The Ez-Crossings have been designed by Bardot Group to ...
Doris Engineering is performing pre-FEED studies for an LNG FPSO offshore northern Australia. Operator GDF Suez is considering this solution for its Petrel/Tern/Frigate gas fields...
France’s two leading oil and gas industry associations plan to merge on July 1. The union will bring together GEP, the suppliers’ council representing nearly 200 contractors, ...
Looking into the future, the Asia/Pacific petroleum theater will exert growing influence and impetus on the world upstream scene. With China and India expected to account for ...
The National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) is the only national trade association representing every segment of the offshore energy exploration and production industry.
Last April 20, tragedy took the lives of 11 men as they worked aboard the Deepwater Horizon. A year later we still mourn the loss of Jason Anderson, Dale Burkeen, Donald Clark...
Drilling activity in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico has begun to show signs of life, as the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement has approved a handful...
All incoming administrations face the same challenge. What can they accomplish in four or eight years that will fundamentally change the daily lives of Americans and will be known...
Total is close to completing the last of the Phase II wells for its Anguille field redevelopment offshore Gabon. Phase III drilling will start next year from the new AGMN wellhead...
Aker Solutions’ Egersund yard has completed the load out of eight subsea templates for Eni Norge’s Goliat project. On Monday, March 21, the load out commenced and successfully...
Offshore capex across the Middle East and Caspian Sea is set to rise by one-third over the next five years, according to a recent report from Infield Systems Ltd. Much of the ...
Norway is offering 62 blocks or part-blocks under its Awards in Predefined Areas 2011 licensing round. Fifty-six of the blocks are in mature parts of the Norwegian Sea, with the...
The world’s Arctic/sub-Arctic regions hold reserves of over 130 Bboe, according to a new report from Infield Systems. Gas makes up 86% of figure, with gas fields offshore northern...
On a daily basis, vessels around the world mobilize to conduct major marine geoscience surveys for oil and gas operators, engineering companies, pipe- line operators, cable companies...
The center of interest off West Africa is on the exploration successes off Ghana and the implications they have for prospects offshore neighboring and nearby countries.
By now, the offshore industry has become familiar with the record-breaking Nord Stream pipeline project. It involves the design and construction of two 760-mi, 48-in. pipelines...
Recruiting and retaining young engineers and highly skilled labor has been a challenge for the oil and gas industry. Faced with a period of increasing investment and growth (and...
Recent surveys on Norway’s E&P future have painted a bleak picture. Statistics provided by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate identified declines in field investment and productivity...
After a long absence from the Gulf of Mexico, KBR recently won sizable new projects there with Chevron for the Bigfoot and Jack/St. Malo field developments. For an insight on ...
Exploration successes continue offshore Brazil for Petrobras and other operators – including OGX and Maersk – while Rockhopper and Falkland Oil & Gas are making new progress off...
As the oil and gas industry develops ever-more challenging reserves, technologies have to adapt and evolve to cope with these more aggressive, corrosive environments characterized...
Subsea processing has significant potential to increase reserves and production – and also reduce cost – by moving some of the traditional topsides fluid processing to the seabed...
The Gulf of Mexico remains North America’s leading oil and gas producing province, even despite the recent moratorium on exploratory drilling. While the Bureau of Ocean Energy...
This oil and gas barometer takes the pulse of senior executives at a challenging time for the industry. New risks are emerging, and new relationships and ways of working are replacing...
Construction is under way for CLOV, Total’s fourth deepwater development “pole” in block 17 off Angola. The FPSO is being engineered in South Korea and Singapore, and development...
At a cost of tens of millions of dollars per train, gas turbine driven compressors are probably one of the most expensive items of equipment to procure, install and operate on...
Statoil is demonstrating its readiness to tackle the challenges posed by heavy oil fields, with the Peregrino project offshore Brazil due to come onstream soon, and Mariner and...
With operators looking to squeeze every last drop of oil and gas from offshore fields, the focus on enhanced oil recovery techniques and, in particular, artificial gas lift, is...
Think of some of the biggest threats or obstacles to offshore production today and sand, corrosion and the dangers of high pressures within subsea production wells are all likely...
Apache Northwest Pty. Ltd.’s “Gazelle” 3D seismic acquisition program covering all of WA-399-P offshore Western Australia in the Exmouth sub-basin should be finished at this time...
Arctic and sub-Arctic offshore drilling and production activity is expected to gain new vitality in upcoming years, as more than 130 Bboe have been identified as either discovered...
Looking ahead about 10 years, oil and gas capex and “drilling intensity” must increase and new technology must be developed to meet future energy demand, according to Schlumberger...
Aker Solutions’ Egersund yard has completed the load out of eight subsea templates for Eni Norge’s Goliat project. On Monday, March 21, the load out commenced and successfully...
Due to their isolation as well as their congestion and compact size, offshore facilities are inherently a higher risk environment than a similar land-based facility. Safety systems...
The offshore industry is moving exploration and production into deep and ultra-deepwater. This presents challenges that do not exist in shallower waters. One example is subsea...
