Jeremy Beckman Editor, Europe Shell's southern North Sea Fields. Gawain Field horizontal well section. Low gas prices in the UK have not deterred some oil companies from pursuing...
John Nixon Ian Richardson Cranfield University, England Cranfield's Hyper-Weld 250 pressure vessel. Plasma welded butt joint in 1-in. thick X65 pipeline steel made at a pressure...
Ed Fisher Cooper Cameron The production riser for Enserch's GB 388 project, shown here with foam buoyancy and vortex-shedding strakes being lowered into position, was used...
Weighing around 50 tons, SubSea Offshore's free-standing habitat is lowered into the Taranaki Bight. The pod on top of the habitat is the weld power source for the Otto automated...
Ruben H. Silva CBS Engineering Mike J. Autin Enserch Exploration Production gets underway on Enserch's GB 388 floating semisubmersible producer in the US Gulf of Mexico. Enserch...
Nick Terdre Contributing Editor (Left) After successfully completing endurance tests on Statoil's Gullfaks A platform, the Poseidon P301 multiphase booster pump is to be permanently...
David Irving Babcock Energy Heat exchanger tubing inspection - eddy current profilometry. Group-sponsored projects are a cost-effective way for the offshore industry of funding...
Jeremy Beckman London With so much talk in Britain of power utilities pulling out of gas supply deals, or renegotiating the price downwards, the safer option for an operator in...
The vacuum packing of welding comsumables eliminates the need for re-baking, Esab says. Vacuum-packed welding consumables from welding specialist Esab offer cost savings for offshore...
Leonard Le Blanc Editor Non-OPEC producers see no limits to productivity The direction of oil and gas investment in major hydrocarbon regions for the period 1995-2005. Source:...
Leonard LeBlanc Houston Small earthquakes induced accidentally in producing zones in the northern and eastern North Sea are triggering increases in production through re-pressurization...
Dev George Houston Complacency must be eliminated in the international energy community and in the petroleum industry in particular, if sustainable development is to be achieved...
