An important milestone in Apache's UK North Sea Bacchus field development was reached recently with installation of a 6.7km pipeline bundle. The job was overseen by Flexlife, whose operations director John Marsden here describes how it was planned and executed鈥
A shortage of experienced geoscientists and petroleum engineers will delay projects and could push operators to take more risks, according to a survey released 29 March 2011.The labor market for mid-career petrotechnical professionals 鈥榳ill be tight over the next three years鈥
The world's largest cargo barge 鈥 Heerema's H-851 鈥 announced its arrival on the offshore scene in 1988 when installing the 44,785t jacket for Shell's Bullwinkle platform in a then daunting 412m of water in the Gulf of Mexico. Now, following鈥
The AP Moller-Maersk Group's Maersk Drilling has signed a contract with the Keppel Fels yard in Singapore for the construction of two ultra-harsh environment, high-capacity jackup drilling rigs. The new rigs are targeting operations in water鈥
Decommissioning and abandonment specialist Cutting Underwater Technologies (Cut) assisted Heerema's Thialf with the removal of the Norpipe 37/4A booster platform's eightlegged steel jacket as part of Norway's Ekofisk cessation project. The 5500t platform stood in 85m of water鈥
Class society ABS and Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) are concluding a joint development program examining critical wave conditions for sloshing model tests and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in the cargo tanks of FLNG vessels鈥
Andrew McBarnet reviews the implications of a new report on the value proposition of E&P data and how it is managed.To get the most mileage out of any personal achievement, it is always better if the recognition comes from a third party. This鈥
The current state of development of methane hydrate resources 鈥 鈥榝rom Mallik to the Nankai Trough' 鈥 was examined by an international symposium in Japan late last year. Two of the participants, Professor Andrew Palmer and Simon Falser from the鈥
Operator Perenco and its key subcontractors on January's Welland 53/4A gas production platform removal 鈥 Scaldis SMC, Overdick, Hoondert and Proserv 云顶赌场老虎机 鈥 believe the project has set a new decommissioning performance benchmark for southern North Sea operators and service providers alike鈥
A new method of installing large subsea structures without the aid of a heavylift vessel is currently being introduced to the offshore engineering community by the Anglo-Faroese pairing of structural engineer David Paul and naval architect Arnbjørn Joensen鈥
Subsea equipment specialist Seatools is scheduled to deliver its latest offshore innovation 鈥 a remotely operated vehicle system that will combine the functions of a survey ROV with those of a fallpipe rock-dump ROV 鈥 this summer.The pioneering鈥
Floating systems consultant Peter Lovie pinpoints some of the perils of speculative FPS building and wonders if the practice may now have become just too risky for operators or contractors to consider.In the service vessel business and in the鈥
For this specially extended edition of his monthly OE column, Professor Michael Economides invited famed horizontal drilling pioneer Jacques Bosio to collaborate on a piece discussing the provenance of this breakthrough technology and its continuing influence on oil & gas well design today鈥
云顶赌场老虎机 topsides must be light enough to be economical, yet big and robust to contain all the drilling and production equipment needed to develop the field. Alliance Engineering鈥檚 Norb Roobaert argues that there is no need to compromise safety鈥
McDermott picked up a Bentley Systems innovation in construction award at the infrastructure software provider鈥檚 recent 鈥楤e Inspired鈥 gathering in Amsterdam for the early delivery of the Su Tu Vang central processing platform at the Cuu Long project offshore Vietnam鈥
