Troll A platform towout. One thing leads to another. BP found oil west of the Shetland Islands, and Saga and Statoil did likewise off Mid-Norway. Now a bunch of companies are ...
Danish oil and gas fields in or close to the Dan Center. Maersk Giant, seen here in drydock at Verolme Botlek's yard in Rotterdam, was used by Amerada Hess (Denmark) to drill...
Oceanos graphic output: simulation of TLP and sea motions. A new company has been created by French classification society Bureau Veritas to promote advanced engineering software...
Water-borne and high solids paints are becoming more important in coating specifications for environmental reasons. They contain between 0-35% organic solvents per litre (VOC)...
C. M. (Josh) Billings Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation (formerly with Louisiana Land & Exploration) Mark H. Doing Mustang Engineering The tripod jacket structure for LL&E Platform...
Luis Canada, Eduardo Lopez, Javier Garate Vicinay Cadenas Vicinay studless chain was first used on the Petrojarl 1. Never has the challenge for mooring systems been greater than...
Oil offload operations should begin shortly on Heidrun. Heidrun's three shuttle tankers have been specially designed to cope with the field's production requirements. ...
Hoesch Rothe Erde's eddy current monitor To many offshore operators, safety legislation costs are unavoidable, but still frustrating. Take cranes, for example. By law, bearings...
Engineering R&D Group Agip Agip's subsea boosting and monitoring equipment sled is lowered to the seafloor for an endurance trial. Agip's research and development efforts...
Approximate organic sovent content in various types of anti-corrosion coating. Hamilton's Johnstone template in the UK North Sea is protected by International Protective Coatings...
Leonard LeBlanc Houston CORRECTION: This figure is a corrected version of the one appearing in the June issue. The number of unmanned platforms scheduled to be installed for each...
Nick Terdre Contributing Editor - Norway Seaway Falcon has been converted for flexible pipelay duties In the ever-changing world of offshore contractors where mergers, acquisitions...
Frank Frazer Corresponding Editor - Scotland Operators are shooting 1,700 km of seismic this summer over 16 Round blocks awarded west of the Shetland and Orkney Islands. At least...
(Left) N'Kossa deck installation off West Africa performed by the DB50 in late May. (Right) The NKF 1 jacket is shown being fabricated at McDermott-ETPM's Jebel Ali yard...
Bernard Cavalie Isotub Coating Schematic of the Isotub Coating system: layer 1 is fusion bonded epoxy (60-100 microns or 250-400 microns); layer 2 is adhesive (min. 300 microns...
Nick Terdre Contributing Editor - Norway Golar-Nor's converted production ship, Petrojarl IV, will be deployed on BP's Foinaven Field, west of the Shetlands. The physical...
Oryx UK and partners have been assessing facilities on the Murchison platform, which came onstream in the UK Northern North Sea in 1980. Shell's submission to Greenpeace over...
Nick Terdre Contributing Editor - Norway Main elements of the structural geology of Mid-Norway. Plays of the Cretaceous and Tertiary Age in the Norwegian Sea (Mid-Norway). Mid...
How the N'Kossa development might look once the concrete barge is in place. West Africa and the West of Shetlands look set to dominate Elf's upstream planning into the...
Artist's impression of the Njord production platform at work in the Haltenbanken. Totally new floater concepts can take years to bring to the market, except in Norway, where...
This graph depicts Statoil's reduction in cost for each subsea well over time, expressed in NOK (Norwegian currency). Around 80 small fields have been discovered on the Norwegian...
Nigel Avern Expro Diagram: Expro's completion system for extended well tests. BP Exploration gained fast track approval from the British government for the development of ...
Tom Schmitz Cooper Cameron Diagram A Two flexible risers have been successfully installed on Conoco's Heidrun tension-leg platform using a new connector system supplied by...
The Ganymede platform came in under budget, a result of increasing cost consciousness. Two major evaluations - one to examine the results of industry efforts to cut exploration...
Leonard LeBlanc Houston Casing wear in the Gyda A-13 extended reach well. Diagram A Offshore producers with acreage and discoveries in water depths beyond the 3,500 ft contour...
Michael Crowden Houston MMS indicators of activity in the US Gulf of Mexico show platforms installed and removed from 1985 through 1994, above, and pipeline segments and miles...
Schematic of the Alimak FPSO lift system. Volvo-Penta's GE-approved test cell for LM1600 turbines. LEO is a compact, lightweight centrifugal separation system for dehydration...
Tom Paulson Phillips Petroleum Company (UK) Production from the Joanne Field's subsea wellheads will be routed to the Judy platform. Phillips Petroleum (UK) discovered the...
Jeremy Beckman London The completed Gany-mede platform at the Barmac yard was delivered to Conoco under the budgeted cost. A huge upgrade of Troll oil reserves will likely lead...
Frank Frazer Corresponding Editor - Scotland Exploeded view of the FPSO vessal Petrojarl IV, which will be used to develop the Foinaven discovery west of Shetland. Although it...
DSRS spool with X-LOC floating ball end connector. The Pipe-mate pipeline tool can be interfaced to the tool rotation module and the spool docking module. As deepwater pipeline...
Critical to determining the response of deepwater risers to current and wave conditions is analysis and tank testing conducted by Marintek. Shown is a dynamic analysis of a steep...
J.Breivik Statoil R.Bruschi, G.Leopardi Snamprogetti Troll Oljeror route - the boxed area is the most uneven and deepest section. Troll Oljeror route zoning. 3D analysis for gravel...
