March's Japanese earthquake, tsunami and resulting nuclear contamination at the Fukushima power plant spawned a disaster that will be hard to remedy or forget. As usual the events have had a number of dimensions, mostly unfortunate for that country no matter how developed and prosperous it has been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
With several major LNG projects under way locally and rising demand in neighboring Asian countries, Western Australia's premier Colin Barnett is presiding over a pivotal moment in the state's history. He talks to Russell McCulley about the LNG鈥
China constantly shakes many of the world's beliefs, for better or worse, from its economic growth to trade to human rights. There is no doubt that China will become before not too long the world's dominant economic power. It also provides an additional鈥
Companies across the offshore supply spectrum used the recent downturn to take stock 鈥 either out of necessity or for strategic reasons 鈥 in order to reposition themselves for when the upturn finally kicked in. OE looks at one such company,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
LNG business took a hit last year as the economic downturn put the brakes on global natural gas demand just as US shale gas output started to surge. Infield Systems鈥 Peter Kiernan reviews the changing gas market fundamentals and assesses the鈥
It is perhaps the biggest social and economic challenge of the world today: how will China acquire sufficient energy resources, of oil and perhaps even more important, natural gas, over the next several decades? China鈥檚 energy makeup is still quite primitive: 70% of China鈥檚 energy comes from coal鈥
OE 鈥檚 analysis of current rig market data is updated monthly using statistics provided by Rigzone.comWorldwide utilization for the mobile offshore drilling fleet is tracking at 74%; holding steady for the last three months at the bottom of a鈥
When the ideal coiled tubing string for a sleeve-shifting operation was too heavy for the platform crane, the string was split and then rejoined offshore. BJ Services鈥 Godwin Effiong and Greg Dean explain how they kept the job safe.Efficiency鈥
Macondo mattersSir, OE's article by Ian Fitzsimmons on preventing future Macondo spills [鈥楳acondo and other titanic struggles', OE July] was excellent and I distributed a copy to my colleagues both in EIA and DOE. The recommendations made鈥
Chinese companies have stepped up their activities over the last year, and two recent reports from analysts Infield Energy Analysts and Wood Mackenzie suggest increased activity in the near future, especially as the NOCs venture into deeper waters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
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
Having launched its Fluor 云顶赌场老虎机 Solutions arm in 2008, Fluor has been busy situating itself to win subsea work when the offshore oil & gas market starts its uptick. The firm most recently announced an alliance with China's 云顶赌场老虎机 Oil Engineering鈥
