Supermajor BP is a step closer to starting up its US$7 billion (£4.5 billion) west of Shetland Clair Ridge development after a major heavy lifting installation campaign. BP, with partners ConocoPhillips, Chevron and Shell, oversaw the…
Subsea engineering and training firm Jee has been awarded a contract from Amec Foster Wheeler for the front-end engineering design (FEED) of a jacket rigid polymer injection riser package (including J-tubes) as part of an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) field development for Chevron…
OE staff reports from the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston on Tuesday, 5 May 2015. Vietnamese delegates addressed challenges and opportunities in fractured basement reservoirs on Tuesday morning’s “Understanding the Challenges of Vietnam Fractured Basement Exploration…
Consideration is being given to new tax incentives to encourage enhanced oil recovery schemes in the UK North Sea. Elaine Maslin looks at an assessment of EOR economics. Professor Alex Kemp. As production declines…
EOR is taking off offshore, yet scientists at the University of Aberdeen believe more work needs to be done to understand the link between reservoir properties such as wettability and fluid flow to help in order to truly benefit from EOR…
Sir Ian’s Wood Report, published last year, identified technology as an integral component to ensuring the success of maximizing the economic recovery of the UK Continental Shelf (MER UK). As the Wood Report states, new field discoveries…
Jerry Lee takes a look at some of the research surrounding microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR), and how it could be a viable solution for increasing recovery efforts. A Glori scientist observes…
Tertiary recovery, or EOR (enhanced oil recovery), should become an integrated part of production operations, a senior executive from Shell has told a European offshore industry conference this week. Speaking at a special EOR workshop…
New analysis by Wood Mackenzie looks at Mexico's Round One shallow water opportunities, a licensing round that includes nine shallow-water fields with a total of 356 MMboe of 2P reserves. These fields, which have not yet been put into production…
The shallow waters of the Persian Gulf, also known as the Arabian Gulf, belie the plethora of offshore infrastructure – new and old – in the Middle East. Elaine Maslin probes beneath the waves. In 2005…
Chevron North Sea is considering a new bridge-linked platform (BLP) on its Captain field in order to carry out an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project, using polymers, on the field. Newly formed engineering group Amec Foster Wheeler has…
The industry is going to face more challenges than ever over the next 30 years as it strives to meet global oil and gas demand from ever harder to reach and extract resources, industry bosses say. Amin Nasser…
Classification society ClassNK has given approval in principle to a new H2/CO2 floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) to a new design developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Chiyoda Corporation. FPSOs are used by…
BP has added to its portfolio of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technologies with a robotic coreflooding system. 'It will give us ten times increase in capacity to test out new EOR techniques on core samples,' Bob Dudley, BP group chief executive…
Middle East upstream growth will continue despite the current oil price dip, and the region is technology hungry. Hugh Fraser, Managing Partner, Dubai, for law firm Andrews Kurth, explains. The Middle East upstream market is growing…
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