Issue: April 2006

An IMCA report describes dynamic positioning incidents and categorizes them, and tries to help operators stay more on-station.

Thanks to a shortage of onshore prospects, high commodity prices and strong demand, operators will continue pouring money into deepwater projects.

Very few Central and Western Gulf OCS areas have never been leased at least once. The few that have not lie off Texas in very deep waters.

How to apply technology gains to meet growing world energy demand and manpower deficits are among the topics presented in this year's show.

A polymer gel process doubled an independent's output.

Decline is explained by combined hyperbolic and exponential models.

Growth in gas demand will force the US to utilize more LNG in the future.

Improved water-saturation estimation derived from a combined process.

Part 1 - Twenty new systems for pumping, plunger lift and gas lift.

A recent workshop concluded that non-OPEC output will peak by 2010.

Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) has been well established as an airborne service and on satellites.

Oil offloading lines for the Girassol project (Total-Angola) required specialized flexible joints.

Interview, Dominique Michel, Chairman, GEP

Hardsurfacing—using the oxyacetylene welding process to apply a low-carbon steel tube filled with tungsten carbide—has proven efficient, but the process is limited.

Deutsche Montan Technologie GmbH (DMT) recently introduced the second generation of its proprietary Corescan measurement system.

A new device for the detection of deposits that build up at the wall of pipelines and flowlines during production underwent recent industrial development.

In January 2006, the tanker Cape Bradley collided with a cargo vessel off the French coast.

Vol. 227 No. 4 Technology from Europe: Italy Compression for the world’s largest nitrogen compression train With the Qatargas I LNG project already in operation, the focus has shifted

Vol. 227 No. 4 Technology from Europe: Italy Demanding field project – demanding compressors Kashagan oil field lies in the shallow waters of the North Caspian Sea, off the coast of K

Vol. 227 No. 4 Technology from Europe: Italy Heavy oil/ resid upgrading process benefits upstream and downstream With heavy oil, tar and bitumen resources in the trillions of barrels world

Vol. 227 No. 4 Technology from Europe: Norway Indian and Norwegian entities cooperate on natural gas hydrate transport A long-term working relationship is underway between GAIL Lt

Vol. 227 No. 4 Technology from Europe: Norway New tender rig design under construction Norwegian drilling contractor Smedvig recently contracted for the building of a newly designed tende

Vol. 227 No. 4 Technology from Europe: Norway Tackling reservoir uncertainty improves project risk factors David Hardy, Roxar AS, Stavanger Reservoir uncertainty is

In times of high crude oil prices, even small improvements in measured accuracy represent large amounts of money.

Anti-Tamper Lock secures assets by reducing the risk of human error or deliberate tampering.

For the first time, non-metallic valves have passed a rigorous test regime.

Interview, Malcolm Wicks, Minister of State for Energy, DTI

Small to medium-sized enterprises with lots of intellectual property now typify the sorts of companies bringing new ideas to the North Sea and elsewhere.

Ferguson Modular recently provided Transocean with nine offshore accommodation modules for the Sedco 709, a deepwater semisubmersible.

Time and cost can be saved by holding one or more leak-sealing repair clamps as a contingency against pipeline accidents.

As drilling in HPHT conditions become routine worldwide, the need for precise pressure data is greater than ever.

A new camera system for real-time downhole inspection deployable on wireline or coiled tubing (CT) is about to debut.

Despite public perceptions, seldom does drilling cause oil spills

CO2 is good for us—who knew?

Norway's Arctic region beckons; UK Treasury predicts lower output

A new method seals leaking wells with a metal alloy

Mexico's big finds come with big problems

Vol. 227 No. 4  Tenaris S.A. has acquired, through its Argentine welded-pipe subsidiary Siat S.A., the welded pipe assets and facilities of Acindar Industria Argentina

Vol. 227 No. 4   World oil demand was revised to 84.7 million bpd which is still a considerable rebound from 2005, 83.3 million bpd

Vol. 227 No. 4  Vibration analyzer Datastick Systems, Inc., has produced the VSA-1212 Vibration Spectrum Analyzer, the first PDA-based vibration ana

Vol. 227 No. 4  BJ Process and Pipeline Services (BJ PPS) has combined two previously divided geographic regions into a single Europe-Africa Region Business Unit (RBU). Reg

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