and another thing ... Getting age in perspective
Contemporaneous jottings from last month’s OTC by OE's award-winning US editor.Automating the drill floor
In almost any industry, safety and speed are often in conflict.
Rick von Flatern takes a short inventory of some of the machines
seeking to change that equation in the offshore drilling industry.
Gas futurists look westward off Libya
Ten years in the making, the Western Libyan Gas Project is
among the most ambitious integrated developments underway
in the Mediterranean region today. Once onstream, the two-field
project will flow some 30 million m3 of gas and 60,000 barrels
of oil/condensate daily into Libya and ...
gas transportation ... Mitigating new concept design risks
Alternative ways of delivering gas to an ever-thirsty US market provided much of the ‘buzz’
at last month’s OTC gathering in Houston, particularly among the major classification societies.
Terry Knott highlights some of the associated talking points.
Permanent poly gets Gulf go-ahead
The Gulf of Mexico’s first applications of permanent polyester
moorings have been approved for two deepwater spar
developments, Red Hawk and Mad Dog. Marshall DeLuca talks
to Ken Huang, ABS mooring team leader, about the global status
of this emerging technology, its upcoming field applications and
the society’s role in making sure it works and works safely.
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