G.A.S. Nayoan In an exclusive interview conducted at Pertamina's headquarters in Jakarta, G.A.S. Nayoan, Senior Executive Vice President, chairman of the executive board for...
Peter Tang Singapore Map: Gulf of Tonkin. Map: Kakap switches. Map: Gulf of Thailand. Reports suggest that the Cambodian government has begun studying the idea of setting up a...
Map: WA and Asia Graph: WA's Imports and Exports Hendy Cowan In just over two years, the Western Australian government's "Locate to Western Australia" Program has proven...
Jeremy Beckman London Route of the proposed new pipeline from the Syd Arne area to western Denmark. A Statoil-led group looks to have discovered Denmark's largest new oil ...
R.Evans Health & Safety Executive Last year's new Prevention of Fire and Explosion and Emergency Response (PFEER) regulations have important implications for the use of composites...
Norway's offshore construction industry prospects have improved from ragged to riches, following a spate of new field projects over the past nine months. Statoil is the latest...
Michael Crowden Houston Map: E&P Highlights. Shell has issued a letter of intent to Sonat Offshore Drilling regarding a proposed firm three-year contract on the semisubmersible...
Leonard LeBlanc Houston A Petrobras study has shown improved net present values on production and recovery on the deepwater Marlim Field when using subsea separation (SSS), subsea...
The two waterpumps delivered for Maersk's Harold Field. Two modularised Framo fire pump systems delivered recently to Maersk's Harald West development in Denmark contain...
Gopotes 1, a trailing suction hopper dredger, is one of the key vessels in HAM's fleet. Fierce competition is expected among the Dutch dredging and rockdumping specialists...
Nick Terdre Contributing Editor Fire and seawater pumping systems for the UK's Britannia Field development are being integrated into one design with the aim of enhancing reliability...
The Wandoo A Monopad. Although Ampolex has long been an essentially Australian company, it has been undergoing a process of restructuring to transform the company into an independent...
Leonard Le Blanc Editor Drilling contractors and equipment developers are pushing the limits of yield and drillpipe lockup as they push the envelope of extended reach drilling...
Production testing of North Gorgon-2. Ian Frazier, Petroleum Director of Western Australia's Department of Minerals & Energy, is very enthusiastic about Western Australia&...
Atlantis pipeline mechanical support system readied for operation on the Transmed gas line. Stabilization of submarine pipeline free spans along uneven sea bottoms is conventionally...
Coflexip Stena Offshore's Apache loading out a dynamic flexible riser at Le Trait, France. Pipelayers are habitual pessimists, worried about gaps in their schedules five years...
Elgin/Franklin well completion architecture (preliminary design). Location of Elgin and Franklin fields in UK Central Graben area. Negative trends in Britain's gas production...
Multipass plow deployment trials from the trenching support vessel Nordica. It is now just over seven months since Coflexip Stena Offshore took delivery of its new trenching and...
CSO Seawell with wellservicing derrick. North Sea operators are looking to reduce costs of planned well intervention/workover programs. An operation involving equipment retrieval...
Woodside's NWS LNG Facility The Northwest Shelf Gas Project is the largest natural resource project ever undertaken in Australia and has set the stage for virtually unlimited...
Frank Frazer Contributing Editor - Scotland A schematic of the KDS hardware for wellbore kick detection. Research supported by Shell has shown that advanced kick detection systems...
Goodwyn Platform. "Chevron has been in Western Australia forty-plus years. When I arrived here eight years ago, the production level of WA's combined gas and energy equivalent...
