Volume 72, Issue 5

Steel catenary riser (SCR) technology has emerged as a potential solution for subsea field development in deepwater.

Construction is under way of the world's first offshore floating LNG (FLNG) facility.

Oil companies continue to push the boundary of deepwater drilling, but technology sometimes trails their requirements.

The Well Control School, in conjunction with AXON Energy Products, has developed a new deepwater well control drilling course, a competency‐based training course that has been...

Non-retrievable drilling-with-casing (DwC) systems are being used in harder formations and over longer intervals with much less drill-out, milling, and cleanout based on recent...

The 74th annual EAGE Conference and Exhibition incorporating for the eighth year SPE EUROPEC is scheduled to meet June 4-7 in Copenhagen, Denmark, under the theme "Responsibly...

HRT Participações em Petróleo S.A. is an independent Brazilian oil and natural gas exploration and production (E&P) holding company formed by a group of senior geoscientists and...

Few exploration technologies have moved as quickly up the value chain over the last few years as full tensor gravity gradiometry (FTG).

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) gave offshore oil and gas companies until Nov. 15, 2011, to implement new regulations. The new rules, Safety and Environmental...

No one doubted that the Deepwater Horizon accident would lead to significant and lasting changes in how offshore oil and gas facilities are managed around the world.

The government of Malaysia has put together a sweeping program to position itself as the support hub for Southeast Asia offshore oil and gas operations.

As the offshore oil and gas sector congregates in Houston this month, it arrives at a time of renewed optimism.

Alasdair Buchanan has been appointed COO of Senergy and managing director of the group's Energy Services division.

The next offshore frontier is the Arctic, according to Andrew Reid, CEO of energy analysts Douglas-Westwood.

Emerson Process Management has released Roxar RMS 2012, the latest version of its reservoir modeling software.

TDW Offshore Services AS (TDW) says it has successfully designed and built a customized 48-in. SmartPlug pipeline pressure isolation tool for Nord Stream AG.

Subsea power cables, umbilicals, pipelines, and flowlines must be protected against impact from trawling activities, anchors, heavy dropped objects, and ocean currents.

The economic growth in the Asia/Pacific region, particularly India and China, has made a dependable energy supply sufficient to meet the increasing demand critical to maintaining...

The eastern Mediterranean is emerging as a rival to Russia and Azerbaijan as a future source of gas for Europe.

Exploration and development continues at a rapid pace offshore West Africa, with confirmations of previous discoveries and new finds that indicate more drilling and production...

Much of the recent focus offshore Norway has been on the giant oil discoveries in the far north and south.

Discussion of offshore exploration and production in Latin America has to begin with Brazil, where state oil company Petrobras and a growing number of foreign oil companies continue...

Two years after the Macondo oil spill, offshore operators and drilling rig contractors are gradually increasing their E&P activities in the Gulf of Mexico.

This year, the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) is marking 40 years of commitment to America's offshore energy industry.

This March, I was selected Chairman of the National Ocean industries Association (NOIA) during our annual meeting in Washington, DC.

Each spring, Houston hosts the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), an industry event that, simply put, is unlike any other.

Development drilling was due to start in April from Total's new AGMN wellhead platform offshore Gabon.

The Nanaa 3D seismic survey offshore Kenya in area L8 is complete for operator Apache Corp.

Pipelay engineering specialist IMECA has developed new all-electric cylinders for use in offshore pipe tensioner systems.

Offshore project management is a new and developing activity for Doris Group.

Aker Solutions has been awarded a FEED (front-end engineering and design) contract from Statoil to design the world's largest spar platform for the Aasta Hansteen field development...

Salamander Energy says it expected to take delivery of the jackup Ensco-53 in late March for a drilling program on the B8/38 license in the Gulf of Thailand.

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. has first oil from the Caesar/Tonga subsea production installation in deepwater Gulf of Mexico's Green Canyon.

Last July, France's two foremost oil and gas associations completed their merger.

Managing risk and the performance of offshore oil and gas pipelines has become increasingly important in recent years.

Advances in equipment and technology contribute to making it possible to produce more oil from old fields and deepwater reservoirs and to reducing the associated financial risk...

As the world of offshore exploration and production changes, more companies are looking to remotely operated vehicles for drill support, surveying, and light construction activities...

Advances in electronics enable subsea equipment to deliver enhanced capabilities, but the increased system complexity imposes tough integration challenges.

When Statoil's Åsgard subsea compression system comes onstream in the first half of 2015, it will be the world's first – unless pipped at the post by the company's Gullfaks subsea...

Venturing further and deeper into the world's offshore basins in search of hydrocarbon production requires economically and technologically savvy solutions.