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After Macondo: Emergency Well Capping The industry has responded to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill by developing a number of new well capping devices. Chris Lo looks at this surge of activity and talks to Brian Kinkead of Oil...
Offshore Information Management The use of software can make the task of co-ordinating data on a large offshore project more intuitive. Chris Lo talks to Phill Nightingale of software company Bentley about adding...
The ROV Revolution Remotely operated vehicles have undergone an intensive evolution to become the ideal vessel for offshore operations. Ian McInnes reveals how companies working in the offshore oil sector...
Home from Home: Offshore Accommodation Working a week-long shift on an offshore platform is a demanding and potentially dangerous proposition. But offshore life can be made easier with good accommodation and facilities. Chris Lo...
Offshore Exploration: Digging Deep Dwindling reserves are pushing oil and gas companies further offshore in search of prospects. Despite disasters like the recent Gulf of Mexico incident, companies are searching ever deeper....
Pumping Innovation into Offshore New reserves are increasingly found in deepwater where drilling and production is a major challenge. Offshore pumps are constantly evolving to adapt to challenging conditions and offer...
Safeguarding Deepwater: Learning from Offshore Mistakes Is regulation the key to helping the offshore industry learn from its mistakes to prevent oil spills in the future? With the US deepwater moratorium lifted, Chris Lo examines new safety...
Dismantle with Care As many of the longest serving wells in the North Sea reach maturity, the process of decommissioning some of the installations no longer necessary has begun in earnest. Paul Dymond,...
ROVs Proving Their Worth Deepwater Horizon has displayed first hand the importance of remotely operated vehicles. So where else are these machines being used today? By David...
Pipe Dreams for CCS Europe is set to gain an additional connection to the world’s largest natural gas reserves with the completion of the Nord Stream pipeline, which will carry gas from Russia. Ruurd Hoekstra,...
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