Volume 56, Issue 3

Control buoy for East Spar [53152 bytes] Sea Commander, a remote unmanned well control buoy design first patented in 1980, was recently employed in its most sophisticated application...

The attachment of flowlines subsea has required divers on the seabed or surface support vessels with winches and remotely operated vehicles to pull together and mate the connections...

Artist's conception of the Petronas Towers. Privatization has been an international industry buzzword for about five years now, but what has been the outcome of this Western...

Zeke Zeringue Executive Vice President and COO Halliburton Energy Services With the growth of integrated solutions arrangements and the increasing responsibility given to the ...

Cairn's Sangu-1 wildcat in Block 16 in the offshore part of the Bengal Basin has reached an undisclosed TD and is currently preparing to begin a testing program. The well ...

Downsizing evolution of tension-leg platforms [39770 bytes] What is the difference between drilling a well in 7,000 ft water depths, which has already been done, and drilling ...

Technical impression of the Varg monotower in its vertical position onboard the S-7000 crane vessel. [107,806 bytes] Saga's Varg is the latest in a legion of marginal North...