Conoco's South Natuna Block "B" discovery [10,990 bytes]. Unocal's West Seno-2 in the Makassar Strait [20,938 bytes]. As part of Arco's withdrawal from Myanmar (Burma...
Leslie Bellfore Houston Nautronix to DP 709 Nautronix (Houston), has been awarded a contract by Sedco Forex to supply dynamic positioning and acoustic positioning equipment to...
What do we do with offshore platforms when they cease to produce? Previously, the answer was to abandon and dispose of them. Now, since the Brent Spar, we decommission them. Different...
Despite major economic upheavals in Asia and the Pacific region, licensing and exploration and development activity throughout the area are continuing. Oil and gas producers are...
Natural competitors in the petroleum industry are again talking with one another about coordinating production exports to boost oil prices. It won't be easy. Competitive forces...
The high pressure, high temperature reservoir characteristics prevalent in the Far East, coupled with high concentrations of carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide, have provided...
The Big Boss backhoe dredging vessel loading a hopper barge off the cofferdam at Bacton, UK, at the start of the Interconnector pipeline installation in Feburary 1997 [20,062 ...
PART I: This is Part I of a two-part series on Russia's Sakhalin Island development programs. Part II will appear in the December issue. Oil prices and political stonewalling...
Chevron's Block 14, home of Kuito and now Belize [5,815 bytes]. Just as Chevron formalized its commitment to develop the Kuito field in deep offshore Angola, the company announced...
Texaco, ARCO, and CNOOC's QHD 32-6, China's second largest offshore oil field [8,339 bytes]. Elf has made its fourth discovery on Block 17 in the deep Angolan play. The...
The development of a subsea power distribution system is a subject close to the heart of Framo Engineering. Originally established to develop subsea pumping technology for the...
Smedvig is extending its capabilities in tender rig drilling in the Far East with the construction of a semisubmersible tender rig at the Keppel yard in Singapore. The newbuilding...
"It may well be that companies most ready to profit from the changes to come are those able to package, deliver, utilize, and sell forms of knowledge, in addition to petroleum...
Contract awards are moving ahead on Shell's deepwater Malampaya project offshore The Philippines. The project will consist of deepwater wells producing to a shallow water ...
Porosity distribution in a 500,000 grid-cell model simulated with Landmark's Parallel-VIP [20,383 bytes]. The VisionDome is a portable immersive virtual reality system available...
Despite the well-publicised economic difficulties that have afflicted countries in the region in the last year, Southeast Asia is still regarded as a prime area for promotion ...
The Australian oil and gas market is one of the key areas on which Aker Maritime is targeting its ambitions for international expansion. From established bases in northwest Europe...
Despite the climatic challenges of the South China Sea, the Navion Munin has achieved 98% operations uptime in the early months of producing the Lufeng 22-1 Field. The Navion ...
Impression of Statoil's floating LNG plant offloading to a gas carrier. Statoil is developing a new concept for the offshore loading of liquefied natural gas (LNG) which brings...
Leslie Bellfore Houston High-pressure cylinders Scott Specialty Gases (Plumsteadville, Pennsylvania), an international supplier of gas and liquid mixtures, high-purity gases ...
The Sable Offshore Energy Project will consist of one manned and two unmanned platforms, but even the manned platform will be remotely operated for 12 hours/day [23,095 bytes]...
Frontier exploration is getting underway in moderate water depths offshore Seram Island in eastern Indonesia. Despite a solid production history onshore the island where the Santos...
Kosta J. Leontaritis AsphWax/Kosta Oil Field Technologies Figure 1 - Asphaltenes flocculate at low enough temperatures that the waxes begin to co-crystallize, creating tubing ...
1998 Global Field Development Survey [369,762 bytes] Oil and gas producers around the globe currently have 390 fields in development or in some stage of planning for future development...
Global deepwater reserve giants [75,718 bytes] Discoveries with one billion bbl of oil in place are a growing phenomena around the globe - in water depths over 1,500 ft. The costs...
Corrib North's location 70k off the western Irish coast. [18,715 bytes] Enterprise Oil's successful appraisal of its 1996 Corrib North gas discovery off western Ireland...
EEX and its partners hold five blocks in the Llano area of Garden Banks in the Gulf of Mexico: Rex, GB 386-387; Travis, GB 387; Huey, GB 390-346; Bowie, GB 388; the Llano discovery...
Chevron's Genesis Spar hull is shown before being upended by the DB 50. Fabrication of the upper and lower decks for the Genesis Spar. [47,959 bytes] The DB50 prepares to ...
Expected construction schedules for 46 newbuilds & conversions [9,105 bytes] Expected costs of 68 newbuilds, conversions & upgrades [6,068 bytes] Business is not going smoothly...
Reed Rig Census forcast for 1999 (Revised - 9/98) [8,398 bytes] Simmons and Company's offshore drillers historical operating performance* [13,613 bytes] In the firm's ...
This structure, Total Minatome's SMI 142 platform in the Gulf of Mexico, consists of a deck and jacket salvaged from separate facilities. The jacket of a used platform is ...
BP's Schiehallion floating production, storage, and offloading vessel deployed west of the Shetland Islands is using a hostile environment metering system for offloading and...
Maximum producing water depth [4,644 bytes] The technological development that brought drilling costs down 75% over the last 25 years from what they would otherwise have been ...
J. Ray McDermott's subsea lowering system onboard their DB-50 Derrick Barge. (Photo courtesy J. Ray McDermott) Platform installations and removals (1947-1998) [25,665 bytes...
Map shows location of Bow Valley Energy's UKCS interests, including the Dolphin fields. [13,201 bytes] Floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessels have fallen...
Distribution of the world's FPSO fleet [15,673 bytes] Oil company to contractor comparison. [2,923 bytes] Growth of the FPSO fleet. Note: Fleet totals for 1991-2001 include...
In December 1995, SubSea Offshore, working within the Foinaven Subsea Alliance, completed the world's first guide lineless remotely operated vehicle (ROV) based flexible flowline...
This TAML Level 5 multilateral completion was successfully installed in a deepwater environment for Petrobras, in the Campos Basin 100 miles off the coast of Brazil. [23,011 bytes...
New developments in the size, price, and reliability of multiphase flow meters could make them standard issue for offshore platforms, according to Dennis Perry, Manager of Applications...
Shock cell stabbing point on the flat top sand can with shock cell fully compressed. The rubber disk stack is shown in blue. [5,452 bytes] Shown is a transverse section through...
A slimhole acoustic logging-while-drilling (LWD) tool has expanded the range of LWD applications to boreholes as small as 5 7/8-in. in diameter. The typical applications of acoustic...
Amoco's 1,300-ton eight pile deck in Eugene Island 367 (Gulf of Mexico) is lifted intact with Versatruss' barge-truss lifting system. A design study shows Chevron'...
The Prisa 101, 102, and 103 newbuild multi-service drilling barges will go to work early next year on a 10-year contract with PDVSA in Lake Maracaibo. [36,408 bytes] Petroleos...
The key components in Saipem's Anteo mating system are the lowering units shown in retracted and extended configuration. [25,109 bytes] Saipem will perform a 8,000-ton deck...
The SSCV Balder is shown lifting modules for Shell's Ursa tension leg platform. The lift vessel will be upgraded to work in water depths up to 10,000 ft. Dynamic positioning...
Shown is a typical deck and crane after refurbishment. This jacket was fabricated for a refurbished deck. [44,512 bytes] Production equipment is shown being refurbished. [42,099...
Rig Seismic recording seismic data. Vibro-coring aboard Rig Seismic off Sydney as part of a study of the effects of ocean outfalls. [38,009 bytes] Box coring aboard Rig Seismic...
Map shows discoveries to date in the corridor along the Outer Moray Firth, currently under investigation for joint development possibilities [11,389 bytes]. Talisman hopes to ...
Competitive forces are reshaping government/business relationships: Saudi Arabia is discussing a new "energy relationship" with US oil companies [5,187 bytes]. Governments are...
China hopes to build an extensive pipeline system to tap Caspian Basin oil and gas reserves. Secondary lines could develop linking China to Siberian and Iranian petroleum resources...
This table shows drilling in the US Gulf of Mexico for 1995-1997, and a comparison of drilling to Sept. 1997 and 1998. Note that the "all others" category is rising steadily, ...
Expected construction schedules for 46 newbuilds and conversions. Source: R&B Falcon [5,722 bytes]. SCORE record largest monthly drop since 1994 [82,389 bytes] Speculation is ...
Geo Drilling has developed a containerized drilling system that can be delivered in 20-ft standard-size shipping containers for specialized drilling operations [23,354 bytes]....
