Despite economic shortcomings in the Asia/Pacfic region, E & P continues. At the end of January 1998, China's national offshore oil company, CNOOC, announced the opening of...
Reserves reporting is one of the most sensitive and difficult issues in the oil and gas business. Recoverable reserve volumes are dependent on so many factors that most planners...
The Sedco Express semisubmersible will feature many of the innovations that define the new rig economics. [27,356 bytes] Oil and gas producers and drilling contractors are designing...
The Banff Ramform FPSO steaming into Tyneside for its topsides fit-out. [18,726 bytes] Location of the proposed unitized Freja Field development. [16,361 bytes] Norway's government...
Statoil brought the Lufeng 22-1 Field in China onstream late last year using a production ship leased from Navion - a double coup for Norway's oil and gas industry export ...
Elf's Lenkoran/Talysh Deniz prospect. [26,394 bytes] Petrocorp's Block 15/Mukala off Yemen. [39,170 bytes] Elf Congo has made a new discovery in the Haute Mer license ...
Elf's Haute Mer exploration permit. [34,452 bytes] Production begins on Tchatamba. [16,749 bytes] The International Court of Justice began hearings in March regarding a dispute...
Neptun was responsible last year for the mating of the 38,000-ton Hibernia topsides with its concrete base. [38,199 bytes] In the forthcoming disposal of the Brent Spar, a key...
The US government wants a new way of calculating royalty due from operators in the Gulf of Mexico. Shown is a drulling unit drilling next to Coastal platforms in West Cameron ...
Artist's impression of Stena Tay with HydraLift Rig installed. [40,532 bytes] Hydralift's HydraLift Rig made its market breakthrough last year when Stena Drilling awarded...
Combined cycle technology recovers waste heat to create electricity while lowering carbon dioxide emissions. [45,726 bytes] Saga Petroleum is aiming to set new environmental standards...
Amoco Trinidad's LNG Upstream Development Project included the design, building, and installation of the Mahogany A and B platforms along with pipelines and shore facilities...
Phillips Petroleum Company Norway is planning to see in the new millenium by introducing water and gas injection on the Eldfisk Field in the southern North Sea. The new Eldfisk...
Oil-filled channel sands drilled in 1,000 meters of water. This is one of four successful wells out of 12 tests in deep offshore Niger Delta. [95,911 bytes] Diagrammatic seismic...
Bluewater's Uisge Gorm FPSO. A total of 129 tanker-based floating production and/or storage vessels currently are operating in every offshore sector of the world, except the...
Aquamaster UUS 7001 units being loaded at Rauma harbor in December, destined for installation on the Discoverer Enterprise at the Astano ship yard in Spain. [23,980 bytes] Part...
Brown & Root holds the record for the design and fabrication of the world's deepest multi-well production manifold, deployed on Shell's Mensa Field in the Gulf of Mexico...
This illustration shows the Machar Field layout. [20,857 bytes] A contract has been signed for the delivery of two multiphase subsea booster pump units (SMUBS) for BP's Eastern...
Oil States MCS has developed the Technospamec Diamond Wire Cutting System (DWCS) for efficient and quick underwater cutting of structures. The DWCS utilizes a diamond wire looped...
Dual module magnetic cleaning pig loaded with wax. [30,982 bytes] Pin wheel pig. [22,087 bytes] Brush wheel pig. [16,258 bytes] The presence of hard scale, wax, and other deposits...
A modified flare buoy is being installed on the Zafiro field after the initial one failed, halting production. A modified buoy was loaded out last month enroute to Mobile'...
Typical sulfate reduction system.[105,848 btes Barium levels as factors of scale potential. [53,095 bytes] Janice Field semisubmersible and field layout. [51,064 bytes] Axsia ...
The 10,000-ton lower section of the Genesis spar hull and mooring system leaving Finland for Corpus Christi. Each half of the Genesis spar was assembled on rails located at the...
SMACC hopper loading unit. [27,553 bytes] Re-injection riser ready for deployment. [26,712 bytes] The CSO well re-injection flexible deployment winch/system onboard the Transocean...
This article is a summary of a technical paper (OTC 8841) entitled "Reliability in ICS Intelligent Completion Systems: A Systematic Approach from Design to Development," to be...
Hibernia is the largest field off Canada's eastern coast. Located 315 km east-southeast of St. John's Newfoundland in 80 meters of water, the field holds reserves of 3...
An analysis technique is used to determine tool outside diameter versus borehole diameter and tool length to pass through bends. [60,399 bytes] Damage was quantified by applying...
Virtual reality will become routine for interpretors. For untold centuries, peoples lived in caves, protected from the elements, shielded to work, and to dream. Special caves ...
Shipyard construction bays are only 19 meters wide. [15,517 bytes] Molikpaq Spacer's sections are joined at Bolshoi Kamen, Russia. [14,172 bytes] Russian workers impressed...
The meshed monitoring unit of the Åsgard B multidimensional pig, seen from the rear. [30,358 bytes] The Åsgard B multidimensional pipeline inspection tool, showing the driving...
The Terra Nova Field will host 24 wells drilled through seven subsea templates from a separate conventional drilling unit. [48,379 bytes] Terra Nova's turret system will be...
Deepwater frontiers will focus on West Africa, Gulf of Mexico and Brazil this year. [12,130 bytes] High-cost frontiers include Subsalt Trends, the Atlantic Margin and Caspian ...
Design and construction of Terra Nova production systems can now begin. [28,485 bytes] Stuctural map of Terra Noca field showing faults and contours. [39,148 bytes]
Manufacturing constraints limit output of completed drillpipe [33,627 bytes] For months, the industry has discussed growing shortages in critical supplies and equipment. The shortage...
This illustration shows the facilities configuration, indicating the responsibilities of each of the alliance members. [25,387 bytes] Taking a page from British Petroleum'...
Pioneers in a new frontier. That's how we at Hibernia like to describe ourselves. After all, Hibernia is the first oil field to be developed off the east coast of Canada. ...
Ocean Energy's primary working area in the Gulf of Mexico is shown above. A total of 25 properties were recently added. [15,205 bytes] , Vastar's Calgary exploration prospect...
Geco Tau delivered 1,700 sq km of processed 3D seismic to Conoco in 70 days. [24,137 bytes] Virtual reality interpretation allows professionals to "walk into" the data volume....
With the popularity of purpose built floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessels, the industry needs a standardized classification process to group these vessels...
The P&A rig during construction in Canada. [24,725 bytes] Hitec Drilling is in the process of upgrading the plug and abandonment (P&A) rig for Phillips Petroleum Co Norway for...
The semisubmersible Uncle John now carries a top drive modified with a collett system that allows rotation of the top drive 90! to grab pipe joints horizontally. Reports of problems...
Bisso Marine salvages the MV Stone Fueler. Bisso Marine salvage crews recently raised the MV Stone Fueler which sank in 20 ft of water new Port Fourchon, Louisiana utilizing the...
