Vessel Specification [49,458 bytes] Combined floating drilling production storage and offloading (FDPSO) systems based on ships have been occasionally proposed by the offshore...
The artificial production and drilling "island." Location of the Mittelplate oilfield installation, just off the German northwest coastal town of Brunsbuettel. [13,400 bytes] ...
StrataLock is a formation-control-while-drilling product developed by Halliburton that may have applications in holding back shallow water flows. [16,744 bytes] Image B [19,145...
Drilling Cost per well for offshore wells [35,453 bytes] Wells drilled and wells not completed [60,647 bytes] Estimated costs of drilling and equipping wells, by depth interval...
The development of drilling and completion fluids beyond the basic liquid pumped downhole reflects much of the petroleum industry's growth. At one time, drilling fluids were...
CorrOcean is moving to establish a more regular presence in Brazil, where it sees a good potential market for its pipeline integrity management and corrosion monitoring expertise...
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. New deepwater action in the Gulf of Mexico: Tanzanite, Leo, and King. [93,071 bytes] Block PM-3 in the Malaysia/Vietnam Commercial Arrangement...
The subsea production tree which KOP is developing for use in water depths down to 2,500 meters - the deepest in the world. [22,326 bytes] Kværner's expertise in subsea technology...
The Sable Offshore Gas Project is the most recent example of significant challenges in HP/HT drilling. [39,453 bytes] High pressures and high temperatures (HP/HT) are a common...
FPSO II- Marlim South Field. (Photo by Petrobas/Eliana Fernandes). P-XIX- Marlim Field (Photo by Petrobras/Eliana Fernandes [38,471 bytes] Many Campos Basin blocks are reserved...
The Varg FPSO en route to Norway. The Varg FPSO has left the Keppel FELS Pioneer Yard in Singapore on its way for operations in Norway. The Varg is owned by Saga Petroleum and...
Drilling without a riser is the ultimate goal of the project, but it will not be demonstrated under Phase IV of the project. This phase will focus on the basis of design and procedures...
Geoservices' new RWD tool uses an EM wave communication system instead of mud transducers. Geoservices of France is having success in Venezuela with its new 4-3/4 in. OD Resistivity...
The Flexconnect pull-in and connection system. By using new materials to lighten the product, we can reach deeper with flexible risers. For much deeper applications, the best ...
Networked production, processing, and transmission structures such as the above have countless numbers of limit-control microchips to calibrate and move production automatically...
This apparatus has been used to investigate pure compounds, binary mixtures and real fluids from the North Sea In the North Sea, production is scheduled from deep reservoirs at...
The Gorilla V being guided down the Mississippi River on its way to Sabine Pass for final outfitting. The MV Atlantic Horizon [22,617 bytes]. R&B Falcon's RBS-6 deep water...
Petrobras's deep-water requirements have provided welcome opportunities for Kongsberg Offshore (KOS) to deploy its subsea expertise in Brazil. It is currently supplying Petrobras...
As deepwater fields are being developed, inventors use past experiences to invent newer aspects or variations in the existing concepts to reduce the cost of deepwater field development...
The Galileo barge is performing the first underbalanced drilling program on Lake Maracaibo. Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo is a very mature field. The lake is thick with wellheads...
The cost of rig time, particularly in deepwater, increases the importance on operators to anticipate subsea excavation requirements and prepare adequate contingencies. Recognizing...
Antonio Carlos Agostini, Director of Exploration & Production for Petrobras [16,160 bytes]. Joel Mendes Renno, President of Petrobras [10,537 bytes]. Campos Basin fields. Roncador...
The Magnetic Fluid Conditioning tool is designed to work with existing paraffin control systems. Magnetic fluid conditioners are not going away. Though detractors still don'...
Smart well technology boils down to an intelligent reservoir management system. [24,759 bytes] When the industry talks about standardization of equipment in IRMS, it is really...
The supermajors 1 Reserves 2 vs. market capitalization 3 [46,634 bytes] The long-term effects of the BP offer to buy Amoco and the underlying market pressures that caused it may...
Dr. Hans Schmidt Linde AG Dimension for the Bayu-Undan GBS Substructure [25,707 bytes] PART II: This is part II of a two part series on Australian LNG. Part I dealt with the advantages...
PART II: This is the second of a four-part series dealing with the key issues of the Caspian Sea Basin. Part I dealt with Caspian geology and reserve potential. The series is ...
Specially designed sponsons have been fitted to the barge to improve its resistance to habitual and severe winter ice loads. Computer-generated impression of the Mallard-operated...
The realignment of PDVSA will do away with Corpoven, Lagoven, and Maravin in favor of a more traditional corporate structure defined by operations rather than geography.[13,035...
Multi-function production platforms such as this one in the North Sea have hundreds of microchips aboard to serve automated control and monitoring processes and communications...
Worldwide distribution of asphaltene and wax production problems [15,055 bytes]. Figure 2 - Colloidal model of crude oils [45,013 bytes]. Figure 3 - Tar mat identification around...
Pemex's Cantarell installations. The Ta kuntah FSO. [32,988 bytes] Despite restrictions on Mexican oil production imposed by the Riyadh and Amsterdam agreements, the 5-year...
A subsidiary of Enron Corporation - Enron Engineering & Construction Company (EE&CC) - has taken its integrated services and risk management expertise into the oil and gas marine...
One of the five directors of Brazil's new National Petroleum Agency (ANP), Giovanni Toniatti, is a geologist with 35 years experience in various private and government positions...
Hitec has bolstered its position in the Brazilian market by winning a substantial order for drilling equipment for the six Amethyst rigs under construction by Drillpetro. In the...
Seillean FPSO was chartered to speed the start of production at Roncador Field. Photo courtesy of RB Falcon. World's deepest Xmas tree: To be completed in a water depth of...
Since 1996, Fluenta has been involved in a technological cooperation program with Petrobras to adapt its subsea multiphase metering technology to the oil company's requirements...
