High-performance computing (HPC) is becoming more affordable and easier to use. Combined with today’s volume interpretation, modeling, and simulation software, cluster-based HPC...
Three FPSOs are being added to the four already operating off Northern Territory, says Moshtak Othman, petroleum resource manager at the Department of Primary Industry, Fisheries...
The 6 5/8-in., heavy wall, 150-ksi yield strength pipe incorporates an innovative thick-walled section in the slip contact area to resist slip crushing loads, and a uniquely designed...
In 2007, Woodside Energy contracted TSMarine to perform the first fully integrated rigless subsea well intervention project in the Asia-Pacific region, on the Vincent field development...
Looking at the profile of investment in Australia over the next five years, Infield Systems forecasts total offshore infrastructure capex to rise steeply to a peak in 2010, then...
Australia’s Nido Petroleum Ltd. is staying focused on the Palawan Sea, where its first field, Galoc, commenced production on Oct. 9 after a challenging development phase.
Complex seabed topography is common in many deepwater fields around the world and gives rise to complex multiple regimes that are poorly attenuated by 2D multiple attenuation ...
If you look at the great engineering achievements in history, their success is invariably based on a group of people with different skills coming together and delivering something...
One alternative to exploration wellhead recovery operations normally carried out by a drill rig is Norse Cutting & Abandonment’s Subsea Wellhead Picker.
Total infrastructure capex offshore Australia is expected to rise steeply over the next five years to a peak in 2010, then settle into an average of around $4 billion per year...
Yantai Raffles Shipyard has loaded out successfully the first of Awilco Offshore’s three semisubmersible drilling rigs under construction at YRS in Yantai, Shandong Province.
As BP prepares to inaugurate its Liberty ultra extended reach drilling (ERD) program in the Beaufort Sea, expected to shatter all global ERD records, Dr. Jerome J. Schubert, for...
ConocoPhillips has contracted Wavefield Inseis subsidiary Optoplan to supply an ocean bottom seismic sensor system to monitor the reservoir at Ekofisk in the North Sea. Installation...
