Desanding to stop wellbore tubing clogging-up is nothing new, but FourPhase has developed their own technology to keep the flow going. Neil Meldrum explains. A DualFlow system overview. Images from FourPhase…
Jerry Lee provides an overview of Mexico’s Ku-Maloob-Zaap (KMZ) heavy oilfield in the Bay of Campeche. Pemex’s Ku-S central processing installation at the Ku-Maloob-Zaap oilfield in the Bay of Campeche offshore Mexico…
Halliburton Energy Services’ Harvey J. Fitzpatrick, Jr. shows how wellbore stimulation fluids can increase production. Fig. 1—Example of acid-etching properties of SandStim service. The service…
Italian engineering companies could offer competitive engineering, procurement and construction services in the Mediterranean Sea, should activity pick up, but West Africa is currently the hot spot for contracts. Litchendjili…
Infield Systems’ Catarina Podevyn takes a look at recent oil price movements and market conditions on the deepwater (500m+) capex spending up to 2019. Olympus platform in deepwater US Gulf of Mexico…
Claire Zhao and Dharmik Vadel, of Clarus Subsea Integrity, discuss condition monitoring as a proactive approach to minimizing downtime. Control system failure is one of the top contributors toward unplanned shutdowns in offshore subsea production systems…
Efficiency, cost-effectiveness and optimized analyses are crucial in upstream asset development. OE spoke with Paradigm’s Indy Chakrabarti to chart the pathway to success. Jeannie Stell reports. Indy Chakrabarti…
Jeannie Stell looks at offshore heavy oil development economics with an eye on the current low-price environment. ExxonMobil expects its 52-well Hebron development project offshore Newfoundland to bring in first oil in 2017…
Italy is sitting on sizeable untapped gas resources, yet it still imports a large proportion of its gas. Elaine Maslin reports from the Offshore Mediterranean Conference, Ravenna. Bruno Lescoeur…
Petrobras encountered the presence of light oil at well 3-BRSA-1296-SES in concession BM-SEAL-10, BlockSEAL-M-499 in the Sergpipe basin’s ultra deepwaters offshore Brazil. According to Petrobras, the higher market value light oil has good reservoir porosity and permeability…
ExxonMobil started oil production at the Kizomba Satellites Phase 2 subsea development project off Angola. The Kizomba B FPSO. From BP. Phase 2 of Kizomba is a subsea infrastructure development of the Kakocha…
Italian energy company Eni started production two weeks ahead of schedule at the deep offshore Cinguvu oil field in the West Hub development project in Block 15/06 offshore Angola. The development is sited 350km northwest of Luanda and 130km west of Soyo…
In a break from the energy industry’s current contraction trend of spending cuts, employee layoffs, contract delays and cancellations, Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) recently announced plans to spend more than US$25 billion on various offshore fields…
KrisEnergy plans to develop the Wassana oil field beginning with drilling a new exploration well in Block G10/48 offshore Thailand. Wassana well projection. From KrisEnergy. The Rayrai-1 well is at a water depth of 170ft and is 2…
The Kenli 10-1 field offshore China is now online, according to China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC). Image from CNOOC. Production at the field located in Bohai Bay began on 23 April at an average water depth of 17m…