OE | VOLUME 36 | NUMBER 11 Designer water
The offshore industry is no stranger to water injection and waterflood methods to increase recovery. One operating company is working out details on how to tailor the water used in waterflooding techniques to boost recovery rates. OE's Jennifer Pallanich talks with the supermajor about the 'designer' waterflooding technology the company hopes to use offshore soon. Watch like a hawk
The offshore oil & gas industry has long relied on sensors and sporadic ROV footage when it wants to know what's going on subsea. A new tool, intended for permanent deployment at well sites - aims to change that by giving operators more precise knowledge of what's happening on the seabed. Weatherford's Ole Tom Furu talks with OE's Jennifer Pallanich about how a certain kind of hawk can help make offshore operations safer. Heavy hitters
With a number of new vessels in the works and others just starting to make their presence felt in the market, Jumbo Offshore's recent announcement that it will build a new-generation K-Class heavy-lift vessel suggests there's still plenty of competitive juice in the offshore installation, construction and transportation sector going forward. David Morgan visits Jumbo's Rotterdam HQ to check out the company's hopes and plans. Topsides optimization
Following best practices in FPSO topsides design will help to deliver safe and operable FPSO topsides that minimize capital and operating expenditures. Alliance Engineering's Norb Roobaert, Juan Campo, Howard Newman and Alan Phillips explain the standardized techniques to optimize design. Putting it on ice
Freezing pipes is one isolation technique the industry has long used, relying on masses of dry ice to freeze a pipe to allow intervention work. BTI's Carlo Mazzella adapted another industry's use of liquid nitrogen for the offshore industry, which gives more control to the process of freezing pipes. OE's Jennifer Pallanich reports. Insulated work
As the technology to exploit scarce resources in the North Sea helps operators drill deeper into the hostile seabed, the need to harness and transport multi-phase products from often high temperature/high pressure well environments to the processing plant is equally, if not more, technologically challenging. Tata Steel's Derek Bish discusses insulated pipe-in-pipe riser system and bends. Well revival
As gas wells mature and the produced gas becomes less able to carry water from the well, a decline in flow rate and production to rates below the anticipated decline curve often results. Bert Lugtmeier and Kees Veeken of NAM along with Weatherford International's Rodger Lacy describe how a newly devised system makes it possible to continuously inject production-enhancing chemicals into the well through the safety valve while maintaining full control of the surface and subsurface safety equipment. | 
