Bredero Shaw discusses the various factors and challenges behind high-temperature subsea custom coating. Due to the increased technical requirements within new well development, the proportion of subsea products requiring insulation suited…
Scotland’s NEL center will launch a new multiphase flow measurement test facility by year’s end. A second, able to operate at up to 150bar, is under development. Elaine Maslin paid a visit to learn more. NEL’s laboratories were originally set up in the 1940s…
DNV GL has developed a new concept to deal with HPHT pipeline expansion design. Chia Chor Yew explains. Transporting oil and gas through pipelines from high pressure and high temperature (HPHT) reservoirs continues to be a major challenge as the industry pushes into new energy frontiers…
FMC Technologies, Inc. will supply six work-class ROV systems to Tidewater Subsea for its subsea operations business. The systems will be supplied by FMC Technologies' schilling robotics business unit and are expected to be delivered year-end 2013…
Subsea sampling can help increase PVT accuracy and improve subsea multiphase meter performance. Test lines for subsea well testing cost as much as US$60 million and come with logistical and well intervention challenges. Eivind Gransaether explains…
Ensuring the structural and marine integrity of floating production installations over their lifetime was the overall theme of a technical session at Offshore Europe in Aberdeen this fall. Meg Chesshyre reports. Floating production storage…
The Toscana became the world’s first permanently moored floating storage and regasification unit earlier this year. Nick Palmer talks more about the unit and its external turret mooring system. This August saw the final installation and hook up of the floating…
Alternate probability distributions could provide a better fit for Arctic ice gouge depth data, impacting design depths for future subsea pipeline projects. Pipelines installed in ice-prone regions require specialized designs for the unique environmental conditions…
Ceona's high-capacity flexible/umbilical pipelay and subsea construction vessel the Polar Onyx has been floated out of dry dock at Ulstein Verft yard in Norway following an intensive outfitting program. It has now moved to the shipyard quay…
AMEC has won a project management consultancy services contract by Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA OPCO) for their Umm Lulu Phase-2 full field development projects offshore United Arab Emirates (UAE). The contract is worth $124 million (£76 million)…
The concept of temperature seems simple enough. Everyone knows that a thermometer can be used to measure the temperature of a substance such as air and that by knowing the forecast, people can adequately prepare for the day’s outdoor activities…
Declining reserves from mature fields worldwide, the ongoing demand for oil, and retreating sea ice have brought a flurry of exploration activity to the Arctic. The US Geological Survey estimates undiscovered Arctic petroleum resources of 90 billion bbls of oil and 1…
Houston’s Cobalt International Energy, Inc. reported that its Lontra #1 presalt discovery well in Block 20, offshore Angola, found more oil and gas than estimated. Drill stem test placed Lontra’s well production at a stabilized flow rate of 2…
Strategic decision-making in the boardroom is vital for those operating on the new frontiers, a new report says. Elaine Maslin reports. “A single event can transform the fortunes of an entire industry,” warns a recent report on frontier hydrocarbon exploration…
Renowned energy expert Prof. Michael J. Economides suffered a fatal heart attack this past weekend on an international flight from Madrid to Chile. He was 64. Economides was a professor at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of…