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Assessing Mexico’s geological potential

Mar 01, 2016

Heather Saucier examines the potential of deepwater plays to be auctioned in Mexico’s next offshore round, including the most prized area in the Perdido Fold Belt. Shell’s deepwater Perdido spar in the US Gulf of Mexico…

Making Murene

Mar 01, 2016

The need to innovate, collaborate and standardize existed well before the downturn, and not least in Norway. Elaine Maslin sets out how Transmark Subsea has been doing all three. Work on Murene at Transmark’s facility near Bergen…

Powering the deep

Mar 01, 2016

Longer step-outs, harsher environments, deeper waters all point to an increasing need for power on the seafloor. Statoil and its partners are working on solutions. Elaine Maslin reports. ABB’s power from shore vision…

Charting demand

Mar 01, 2016

35 offshore projects and 100 rig years have slipped after the oil price collapse. Oddmund Føre, Analyst, Rystad Energy, explains. The market for oilfield services is hurting and offshore drilling is no exception. The global market for…

Simplifying sampling

Mar 01, 2016

Elaine Maslin reports on Norway’s NUI newly developed seabed sampler, which will take any type of sediment while using an ROV. The sampler during a test subsea.  Despite the best…

Wonders of the deep

Mar 01, 2016

Vidar Fondevik’s career has spanned challenging the limits of diving to developing remote operated systems. He reflected on his career with Elaine Maslin. Vidar Fondevik, top left, receiving his SUT Fellowship…

Dawn of the data engineer?

Mar 01, 2016

Oil and gas has all the resources for a big data revolution – so what’s holding us back? Robert Dickson, Director – field development project excellence at io sets out his view. Image from iStock…

A regulatory perspective

Mar 01, 2016

DNV GL’s Santhosh Mony, Eckhard Hinrichsen, and Pedram Fanailoo offer the regulatory perspective on offshore risk management. Photo from DNV GL. Mexico is recognized as one of the top 10 oil producers of the world…

Taming a Sea Lion

Mar 01, 2016

Since its discovery in 2010, the Sea Lion field offshore the Falkland Islands has been subject to a string of development options. Elaine Maslin looks at Premier Oil’s optimized final plan. Ocean Rig’s Ocean Guardian semisubmersible drilling rig…

The pipeline perspective

Mar 01, 2016

OE’s Audrey Leon spoke with Cyril Petit, Serimax’s regional manager, Central and North America, about the opening of Mexico’s oil and gas industry and what effects it will have on the company and region at large. Serimax’s…

Data analytics for an emerging market

Mar 01, 2016

Henrique Paula, of ABS, explains how data analytics can be used to improve safety, environmental protection, operational efficiency, and profitability in emerging energy markets such as Mexico. One of the most promising and legitimate…

Bidding for deepwater

Mar 01, 2016

Dallas Parker, Gabriel Salinas and Diego Perez, of law firm Mayer Brown, assess the terms of Mexico’s phase four bid round to be held in 2016.   The Mexican National Hydrocarbons Commission…

Oilfield autonomy

Mar 01, 2016

AICDs are enabling production engineers to manage reservoir uncertainty along the well with better flow assurance and greater oil recovery says Tendeka's Ismarullizam Mohd Ismail. AICD in housing…

MEMS the word

Mar 01, 2016

Norwegian universities have a great habit of directing their students towards research that quite often results in a new technology – and new businesses. Elaine Maslin reports on a new business bringing micro-electronic mechanical systems to the subsea business…

When the forecasts are flawed

Mar 01, 2016

Subsea processing market projections have consistently overestimated the growth of the market – DNV GL looked into why. Elaine Maslin reports. For the last 15 years a number of market outlooks…

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