Following the debut application of the TPG 500 platform on BP UK's Harding Field, Technip-Geoproduction has now extended the concept to waters 3,300 ft deep or beyond. The...
Robert A. Gardes Gardes Energy Services Under-balanced drilling of multilateral wells represents a significant technological advancement over conventional horizontal drilling ...
Download the 1996 List of Officers (PDF document). For the past several years, the National Ocean Industries Association has engaged in a renewal process to enhance our industry...
Masahiro Nakamura, Kozo Yokokura Japan Drilling Company Arata Nakamura Japan National Oil Company Oil storage layout. DEPTS overview. Deepwater petroleum development is increasing...
Ashley Leng SubSea Offshore The world's first guidelineless, ROV-based flexible flowline pull-in and connection has been successfully completed in BP's Foinaven Field ...
Bill C.M. Chen Consultant The options for cargo offloading crude oil from a floating storage and offloading vessel include the stem-in-tandem (bow-in-tandem), the remote offtake...
Steve Button Pressure Control Engineering The reasons for drilling multilateral wells are now well established with the resultant cost benefits and increased recovery. Drilling...
Ed Park BP Exploration Alex Procyk Pall Corporation BP Exploration (BPX) of Houston has successfully completed a concentric screen horizontal workover in the US Gulf of Mexico...
Nick Terdre Contributing Editor - Norway Mid-Norway's mighty Asgard project is likely to dominate the development scene on the Norwegian continental shelf until the turn of...
Bill Hunter, Lindsay Clark Reading & Bates The Liuhua 11-1 Field development consists of the Nanhai Tiao Zhan linked to an FPSO and transport tanker. The semisubmersible FPS Nanhai...
Bureau Veritas (BV) has introduced new software for analysis of mooring lines and floating platform behavior. Cable 3D is a fast, non-linear 3D finite element package which provides...
Escape systems from offshore installations can themselves be a liability to human health, if evacuees hit the water too fast or at the wrong angle. Several new initiatives are...
Neil Potter Contributing Editor Elf's N'Kossa deck at loadout in Fos. West Africa is one of the cornerstones of Elf's worldwide strategy, accounting for more than ...
Complete treatment of wet, sour, condensable hydrocarbon gases is now available in a single process unit. Ifpexol, developed by the Institut Francais du Petrole with backing from...
Victor Vachier Executive Vice-President, GEP Elf Angola's Cobo 1 deck is an example of a French oil company working with indigenous contractors on engineering, fabrication...
Neil Potter Contributing Editor In the aftermath of the Brent Spar fiasco, the environmental issues of decommissioning large structures in the North Sea became the major topic...
If welding in water depths beyond 500 meters is viable and economic, the petroleum industry is likely to continue to use that method of attachment. This consensus was developed...
Feico Houweling Contributing Editor TNO's new gas explosion test facility comprises a 40 cu m steel bunker with removable steel bars at two sides. Test panels can be placed...
Sometime ago, I was speaking with an oil operator who had just obtained a concession in a country where there was increasing anti-American tension among the citizens. The operator...
Hunt Petroleum's Pointe de Barfleur exploration permit in the French/English Channel, where Neddrill 9 should by now have spudded the first well. Drilling has resumed off ...
Robert G. Burke Contributing Editor Ocean America, a semisubmersible equipped for satellite communications and operated by Diamond Offshore Drilling Co., drills for British Petroleum...
Leonard LeBlanc Houston A survey on drilling horizontal and extended reach sections among 13 operators in Europe (representing 80% of wells) and 14 operators in North America ...
