WorldOil

Jan 2010

• Flat-rheology mud for deepwater wells

  Author Robert Schlemmer and Jonathan Sheldon

  A new, simplified drilling fluid system with nearly temperature-independent rheological properties dramatically reduced lost circulation in wells drilled in the South China Sea.

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Nov 2009

• Advances in subsea interventions

  Author Jeanne M. Perdue

  Companies continue to develop more advanced riserless systems and ancillary technologies to bring down the high cost of subsea well interventions and improve efficiency and safety of operations.

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Nov 2009

• Deepwater Statistical Report

  Author Alan Murray

  How deepwater exploration fits into the big picture

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Nov 2009

• Subsea processing technology makes big strides

  Author Jeanne M. Perdue

  Advances are being delivered in multiphase pumping, water treatment and injection, separation and compression systems designed for the seafloor.

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Nov 2009

• Wax prevention and remediation in subsea pipelines and flowlines

  Author Saeid Mokhatab and Brian Towler

  As the industry moves to ultradeep water, mitigation alternatives will be critical to sustain production efficiency.

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Oct 2009

• Best practices for salt drilling in the Gulf of Mexico using rotary steerables

  Author Marco Aburto and Robert Clyde

  In drilling, experience has always been the best teacher, and improved efficiency and safety have topped the drilling report card.

  Deepwater, Drilling and Completions, Offshore, North America Read More

Sep 2009

• Preprocessing of offshore platform-integrated marine monitoring system data: What to do with unusual values or trends?

  Author Igor Prislin, Soma Maroju and Kevin Delaney

  Full-scale measurements provide indispensible information for validating the behavior of an offshore oil platform; however, they often contain some observations that deviate from a majority of other values.

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Jul 2009

• Glimpsing North Africa’s deepwater potential

  Author Craig McMahon, Wood Mackenzie

  Deepwater Statistical Report

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Jul 2009

• New offerings fill in the gaps of expandables technology

  Author David Michael Cohen

  As this technology becomes well established, step-change innovations are less common, while new applications expand to meet operators’ drilling challenges.

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Jul 2009

• Sensitivity of deepwater floating facilities to new metocean criteria (Jul-2009)

  Author John Murray

  Testing on the three most common types of floating structures in the Gulf of Mexico reveals considerable differences in how each responds to the new standards.

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