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  • Volume 57, Issue 5

    • Volume 57, Issue 5

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    Vessels

    Wave of concrete platforms headed for deepwater West Africa

    May 1, 1997
    Monocolumn in the Gulf of Guniea with drilling/workover tender barge. The Semisubmersible Assembled on Site. Following the renaissance of concrete barges with the N'kossa ...
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    Drilling & Completion

    Pre-set moorings provide less costly alternative to DP in ultra-deepwater

    May 1, 1997
    A suction embedment anchor, part of a preset mooring array for ultra-deepwater, is shown being deployed in the US Gulf of Mexico from the back of an anchor handling vessel. The...
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    Company News

    Contracts go out for world's largest production barge

    May 1, 1997
    In terms of its 1.4 MMbbl storage capacity, the Laminaria production barge to be supplied by Kvaerner will be the world's largest. Kvaerner and Single Buoy Mooring (SBM) are...

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    Company News

    Gas-to-liquid technology: an answer to stranded gas

    May 1, 1997
    Single-pass, two-step processing is key to the economic viability of new GTL technology (courtesy Syntroleum). Rick Von Flatern Technology Editor About 2,500 tcf of proved natural...
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    Equipment Engineering

    IFP seeking greater involvement in deepwater problem solving

    May 1, 1997
    Deepwater and high temperature production are two of the big challenges facing France's oil and gas service sector. The Institut Francais du Petrole (IFP) intends to address...
    Production

    Troll Oil separation quality draws further floater orders

    May 1, 1997
    Key principles of Proser's gas dehydration and glycol regeneration technique. Over the next five years, Proser's strategy will be oriented very much towards floating production...
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    Company News

    US Gulf boom leaves fabrication yards scrambling to meet rig demand

    May 1, 1997
    Alabama Shipyard and Atlantic Marine share combined facilities on Pinto, a private island covering 650 acres. The shipyards cover 150 acres. Pinto accommodates shipbuilding and...
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    Vessels

    Delta-shaped Ramform provides comfortable ride for Banff

    May 1, 1997
    Three vessels for a marginal field may lack a certain ring of logic, but that is the solution Conoco UK has chosen for its Banff oilfield development, basing production around...
    Equipment Engineering

    Norwegian contractors overhaul key drilling, pipelaying units

    May 1, 1997
    Kvaerner is involved in the upgrade of SOCAR's Shelf V semisub drilling rig. Leading contractors, including Kvaerner, Aker, Smedvig and Stolt Comex Seaway, are among the Norwegian...
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    Vessels

    1997 FPSO SURVEY

    May 1, 1997
    FPSO Petrojarl 1. FPSO Nanhai Shengkai. * (Require Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0) FPSO Survey, part 1* FPSO Survey, part 2* FPSO Survey, part 3* FPSO Survey, part 4* A total of 137...
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    Company News

    NOIA Chairman: Strengthening a partnership

    May 1, 1997
    To stay on top of developments in the White House, in the Congress, in the executive agencies, and to be a part of the national dialogue in the news media, would require a company...
    Subsea

    Who needs appraisal wells?

    May 1, 1997
    For BP's Eugene Hughes, designing for minimum appraisal was another crucial consideration in deepest West Africa. "Like anyone else, we're trying to go to fast-track development...
    Drilling & Completion

    Asia/Pacific

    May 1, 1997
    On 13 March, the Yetagun Gas Sales Agreement was signed by the MOGE, Texaco, Premier, Nippon, PTTEP, and Thai state oil company PTT, which is the purchaser of the gas. PTT has...
    Drilling & Completion

    Greece leads Balkan revival

    May 1, 1997
    Elf's Oil & Gas division executive vice-president, F. Isoard, said his own company had signed an accord with Libya last year which could lead to development of two Libyan ...
    Deepwater

    West African production issues

    May 1, 1997
    Field layout for Roncador, Petrobras' newest record-breaking development in over 1,800m of water in Brazil's Campos Basin. Metocean conditions in the deepwater region ...
    Production

    Agip overcomes environment and economics to make Aquila work

    May 1, 1997
    Aquila Field development concept. Italy's first deepwater FPSO is close to first oil, following a 15-year wait. A short time ago, M.Ciprigno and C.Chimisso of Agip revealed...
    Geosciences

    Geosciences

    May 1, 1997
    Complex 3D reservoir characteristics can be modeled with Landmark's Stratamodel.
    Production

    Bongkot production surging upward following facilities re-design

    May 1, 1997
    Schematic shows modifications to the Bongkot riser platform as part of the phase IIIa production expansion program. Gas production from Thailand's Bongkot complex will shortly...
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    Vessels

    Diverse FPSO flotilla encourages analysis review

    May 1, 1997
    Freefall lifeboat arrangement for a NAM satellite platform. The fleet of floating production systems is steadily increasing worldwide, whether monohull or semisubmersible, in ...
    Vessels

    Development growth will further pressurize tight standby market

    May 1, 1997
    Close to 190 people have been rescued from North West Europe drilling rigs and production platforms over the past decade by the North Sea standby vessel fleet. This is one of ...
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    Pipelines

    Activity review of US regulatory, legislative issues

    May 1, 1997
    Another function of NOIA is to acquaint the national press with drilling operations offshore. Here, members of the media receive a briefing from NOIA and BP Exploration on board...
    Company News

    French suppliers enhance reputation as worldwide contracting force

    May 1, 1997
    Schematic of Seamet International/Chantiers de l'Atlantique's multipurpose column-stabilized vessel for completion/workover duties. This is one of several new concepts...
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    Company News

    International Focus

    May 1, 1997
    The reconstitution of Royal Dutch Shell The graybeards grouped around the table in the inter sanctum of Royal Dutch Shell in the Hague have apparently finally gotten the word...
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    Drilling & Completion

    How offshore drilling units evolved

    May 1, 1997
    The latest mobile drilling rig design is the spar, shown above in production mode. The deep hull restricts mobility, but it can be tethered or spread moored in water depths beyond...
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    Business Briefs

    1997-2047: Next 50 years

    May 1, 1997
    The offshore hydrocarbons industry in the year 2047 could be largely unrecognizable, if the past 50 years is any indication. Also, other resource industries may be operating offshore...
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    Regional Reports

    WEST AFRICA

    May 1, 1997
    Africa's largest offshore field, Elf's Girassol lays in Angola's deepwater Block 17. Congo's productive Haute Mer province. For a second year in a row, the handsdown...