All energy industry eyes will be on Houston the first week of May, when the 41st annual 云顶赌场老虎机 Technology Conference gathers at Reliant Park. OE takes a look at what鈥檚 in store for delegates.The past couple of years have been tumultuous ones for the oil & gas industry鈥
As the offshore oil & gas industry grew in its infancy away from the coast, operators applied their experience from one platform to the next. The marine renewables industry is beginning a similar growth pattern. US alternative energy enthusiasts鈥
With an offshore network of over 7000 production platforms, 180,000km of pipelines and 40,000 producer wells already installed, the global offshore operations & maintenance market could be worth more than $330 billion over the next five years - and鈥
With industry interest reawakened by recent deepwater, sub-salt gas finds offshore Israel, the eastern Mediterranean and Levantine Basin today loom large on the frontier exploration agenda. Here, Øystein Lie, Thore Sortemos and Per Helge Semb鈥
With the offshore wind sector already garnering government support and increasingly piquing the interest of the private sector, the banking sector will become progressively more involved in this industry as installed capacity grows and market share increases鈥
Paal Kibsgaard has been appointed COO of Schlumberger, taking responsibility for the dayto- day management of all the company鈥檚 worldwide operations in addition to its technology organization, including engineering, manufacturing and product development鈥
With Gorgon, Pluto and other major LNG developments creating boomtown conditions in the Western Australian capital of Perth, this month鈥檚 Australasian Oil & Gas show looks to be in the right place at the right time.Perth is certainly the place to be for Australian and other offshore operators鈥
Shortening the data commuteDynamic Drilling Systems (DDS) is gearing up to begin production of its new Apollo Dart drilling software, which will be able to provide data within milliseconds, the company鈥檚 president Bob Sage announced during the recent IADC/SPE drilling conference in New Orleans鈥
More than eight years after the project was announced, the Obama administration is pushing for a final resolution that would allow installation of the first major offshore wind farm in the US.Threatening to 鈥榯ake the steps necessary to bring the permit process to conclusion鈥
BJ Services entered the multizone single trip completion market in 2005, when it began designing its ComPlete Multizone Single Trip (MST) system in response to a pair of operator requests.--鈥極ne operator had multiple reservoirs that were of similar pressure but separated by numerous shale layers鈥
It was, and still is, an unassailable dogma throughout the Middle East, among barely beneath-the-surface anti-American European intellectuals, and certainly, the American left: the United States went to war in Iraq in 2003 just for oil. For those people鈥
When it comes to single trip multizone completions, Weatherford is 鈥榣ooking at four specific types of completions鈥 in its current offering, says Keith Parry, the service company鈥檚 global director of business development. These are: the Advanced Reservoir Management System (ARMS)鈥
Halliburton entered the picture with its technology commercially in 1993 and employed its first Single-Trip Multizone (STMZ) system and Single- Trip Dual Zone (STDZ) system in the South China Sea. The company鈥檚 Otis Engineering subsidiary, through its sand control tools group鈥
The technical director and co-founder of Marine Current Turbines (MCT), the Bristol-based company that designed and developed the world鈥檚 only commercial scale tidal stream turbine 鈥 SeaGen 鈥 reports that it is now running at full power and fully automatically鈥
Remediating plugged subsea lines in deep and ultra-deepwater is dangerous and time-consuming and can become extremely costly if coiled tubing or wireline intervention is required to resolve the problem. Champion Technologies鈥 Jeremy Lee describes鈥
