Multi-beam bathymetry survey acquired over 193 OCS blocks in the Garden Banks area, Gulf of Mexico. [54,021 bytes] Echo sounding is a technique for measuring water depths by transmittin...
An anchor handling vessel deploying a mooring spread. A DP thruster used on Transocean's Discoverer Enterprise. [32,057 bytes] If a producer or drilling contractor is planning...
Figure 1 [11,861 bytes] Traditionally, the offshore industry has been skeptical of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). However, the use of remotely operated vehicles (ROV) ...
If a cement job leaves gaps nears a shallow water flow zone, these spaces can provide a channel to conduct the pressurized water and flowable sands back to the surface, washing...
When Saipem built the S-lay vessel Castoro Sei in the late 1970s, they soon went on to become the first contractor to install a series of pipelines in water depths in excess of...
Emtunga has fabricated identical accommodation and helideck modules for the Borgland Dolphin and Bideford Dolphin rigs during their refurbishment at the Harland and Wolff yard...
An impression of the Offshore Shuttle in action. [23,061 bytes] Redevelopment of the Ekofisk complex in the Norwegian North Sea has allowed drilling, production, and processing...
Deepwater discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico (> 1,500 ft.). [79,408 bytes] World record wells. (Courtesy of Global Marine and Offshore Data Services). [30,209 bytes] Gulf of Mexico...
Conoco's successful appraisal this summer of an extension to BP's Suilven oil discovery west of the Shetlands was a morale booster to the region's exploration effort...
The Clansman is the name of a powerful, high specification work class remotely operated vehicle (ROV) installed on the mobile offshore drilling unit Jack Bates, which can operate...
Underbalanced applications incorporate all operations throughout the life of the well. [31,185 bytes] Sub-hydrostatic drilling has come full circle, from the primitive cable-tool...
The rapid expansion of the Zafiro oil field off Equatorial Guinea in West Africa relied on a number of recent technological advances to optimize production from a very prolific...
Bolted flanges are by far the most widely used and cost effective method of connecting subsea pipelines. As a result, there is considerable experience and confidence with the ...
Optimizing production from gas-lifted wells and fields is a complex task. Most existing modeling tools approach the problem by simulating gas lift in terms of a steady state solution...
Offshore rope manufacturer ScanRope has launched operations at its new spiral strand rope manufacturing facility with an order to supply mooring lines for Statoil's Åsgard...
A 15-in. prototype riser for Norsk Hydro's Troll Field - designed to withstand pressures of 213 bar and temperatures of 70°C - is the largest diameter riser that Wellstream...
Increasing demands are being made by operators for increased safety and cost-effectiveness in all operations, especially deepwater. Operations in deepwater environments around...
Federal OCS - Central* & Western US Gulf [93,960 bytes] The current atmosphere of low oil prices is having an effect on the Gulf of Mexico. Early this year, in a price climate...
Western Geophysical's 2,500 km 2D non-exclusive seismic survey offshore Nova Scotia, Canada. [42,230 bytes] A simulation of a Continuum Resources multi-sensory immersive environment...
Statoil is on the hunt for new drilling rigs. The existing fleet of the company's contracted mobile rigs will have an average age of 22 years when most of the present contracts...
Crude oil wax deposition envelope (WDE) typical of US Gulf of Mexico oils. [41,761 bytes] An EOS oil characterization is a description of the fluid in terms of its components ...
Deep Offshore Technology (DOT '99), the leading forum for the international deepwater industry, will be held in Stavanger, Norway for the first time in 1999. The three-day...
Petroline Wellsystems, of Scotland, reports it has installed the first open-hole expandable sand screen in a well for Shell in the southern North Sea. [42,229 bytes] According...
Esso has made a third oil discovery in Block 15 off Angola. The Hungo well, located in 1,202 meters water depth, follows the Kissanje and Miramba finds made recently by the company...
One year ago, who suspected crude oil prices would drop as low as $11/bbl, and hover in the $12-14/bbl range for months? Today, who knows what oil prices will be one year from...
The offshore industry should be able to drill and produce in 3,500-meter water depths by the year 2008. Examples of deepwater production systems. [106,121 bytes] The once-significant...
Graphical output of CFD analysis carried out by Caran Dynamics on a floating production unit in order to determine current loads on the hull. [14,469 bytes]
Deposition rate comparison for consumable used in welding duplex stainless steels. [43,943 bytes] With sophisticated materials being used increasingly in the fabrication of process...
Tankers, such as the one shown, are in demand for conversion to FSO and FPSO service. A five-year contract to supply a floating production unit for a field development in Nigeria...
Mobil's offshore LNG plant design can operate and load in the roughest seas, and is suitable to the sequenced exploitation of any number of small remote gas fields. Two floating...
The following article is a summary of a technical paper entitled "Pushing the Potential - Drilling Additional Wells in the Existing Pattern From a MODU with the Neptune Spar Offset...
Late in 1996, Petrobras and SBM signed a four-year charter contract for the FPSO II (formerly in service on the West Linapacan Field, The Philippines) to be re-deployed at the...
The Swagelining process was used to quickly line 1,690-ft lengths of steel pipe. [35,143 bytes] The Schiehallion and Loyal fields are in 1,300 ft of water below the NW Atlantic...
Figure 1 [37,459 bytes] Although West Africa countries with large production areas such as Angola and Nigeria receive most of the attention, other countries there are making significant...
