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Abstract Subsea well completion design and implementation in TotalFinaElf's Aconcagua Field and Marathon Oil Company's Camden Hills Field posed unprecedented challenges. Water depths in the area of planned development (up to 7209 ft) were greater than for any well previously completed in the ...
ABSTRACT: Field A in Bohai Bay, China, was developed with high angle and horizontal wells. The development drilling had been hindered by severe stuck-pipe problems experienced in several wells in a short period. Drilling experience showed that the main problem was from the shale formation that directly ...
Abstract Organisations executing major capital projects often face significant problems in meeting set project objectives, leading to top managers being considered scape-goats and laid off. The paper discusses why and how this phenomenon takes place and remedial strategies for how to cope with this ...
ABSTRACT The Stratton Commission report, released this past January, documented the results of more than two years of study and investigation of the priorities and methods by which government and industry should develop the potentials of the seas. This report of the Commission on Marine Science, Engineering ...
Abstract Projects related to the offshore industry are often involved with the realization of complex infrastructures in sensitive marine environments. These projects show serious concerns about the preservation of environmental values, strong demands on assessment of impacts, strict controls on work ...
ABSTRACT Recent discoveries 'of petroleum along the northern coastal areas of Alaska and Canada's Northwest Territories have promoted interest in exploration in the shallow waters of the Beaufort Sea. During the period 1972-1975, Imperial Oil Limited has constructed six earth fill islands in water ...
ABSTRACT This paper examines the worldwide problem of assessing the environmental impact of oil and gas exploration by means of laboratory studies. Widely referenced papers used in environmental impact reports are reviewed in the light of more recent studies for applicability to the oceanic environment. ...
ABSTRACT Raydist ""T"" and Micro-Omega are electronic phase comparison systems for marine and aircraft radiolocation and precision navigation. Both systems employ important new advances in electronics technology. Raydist ""T"" is an outgrowth of Raydist DR-S, a range-range radiolocation system widely ...
Abstract The geoelectric methods of DC resistivity and induced polarization (IP) have had a long history as complementary geophysical tools with which to remotely explore the earth. Pioneering work on both techniques dates to earliest part of the last century. Resistivity had gained industry acceptance ...
ABSTRACT Aluminum drillpipe is a speciality product that has been recommended for extended reach directional drilling operations. However, only limited operational experience has been reported from offshore drilling applications. In this paper the operational experience of using a string of 5 in. ...
Abstract The E&P industry faces a major challenge over the next 25 years in being able to decommission over 6000 platforms worldwide in an optimal manner which seeks to find the right balance among health/safety, environmental, technological, and economic considerations. This balance needs to be achieved ...
Abstract The Coastal Plains Regional commission, chartered on July 29, 1967, is a multi- state regional action planning commission whose purpose is to foster and induce orderly, accelerated economic growth in the Coastal Plains of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia The Commission is a Federal-State ...
ABSTRACT Phosphorites mainly of upper Miocene age were discovered on underwater rises of the Sea of Japan. High-quality phosphorites involve diatom and terrigenous- diatom rocks substituted by phosphate. Rich phosphorites containing up to 30% P 2 0 5 were not known Jon marginal seas before. The paper ...
ABSTRACT This paper describes the results of a feasibility study regarding the exploitation of marine currents in the Strait of Messina (Italy). The high kinetic energy contents of these currents suggest the development of some exploitation system. The technical solution, proposed in the study, consists ...
ABSTRACT This paper discusses equipment, completion, production, and maintenance operations utilizing pumpdown (or TFL - through flowline) methods on five subsea wells presently operated by Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP). These wells include the world's first subsea 4"" x 2"" well (single zone) and among ...
ABSTRACT After nearly a century of virtually complete freedom, marine scientists have encountered growing controls. In the 1950s a few states claimed jurisdiction to 200 miles. The 1958 U.N. Convention on the Continental Shelf extended some control over marine research. Throughout the 1960s many states ...
Abstract When revitalizing mature oil or gas fields, the ability to maximize productivity while minimizing operating costs is critical. Achieving these goals becomes more challenging where sand control is required. This is especially true for complex reservoir lithology, which leads to a variety of ...
ABSTRACT The first international, long-term, cold water saturation scientific diving program was conducted from September through November 1975 in 110 feet of water, 10 miles off Rockport, Massachusetts. The program was coordinated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration using the West ...
ABSTRACT The development of the Occidental Group's North Sea Piper Field involves the operation of an oil loading terminal, with associated tanker deballasting problems, in the environmentally unspoiled Orkney Islands, Scotland. If minimal upset to a finely balanced marine ecosystem is to result, ...
Abstract Britannia is a large gas condensate field situated in the central North Sea with reserves of 3 tcf of gas and 140 million barrels of condensate which started production on August 3rd 1998. The field covers a large areal extent measuring 40kms by 10kms and to be able to develop it economically ...