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Apr 2013

• Adaptation: The (r)evolution of FPSO development

  Author Gerald Mosley

  Chapter One: The NOV Harsh Environment FPSO signals a transition in vessel design that will be tested first in the North Sea. Additional versions of the new design will eventually be built and put to work in Brazil, West Africa and other regions.

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Apr 2013

• Advanced method cuts time and costs for EOR modeling

  Author Dr. Lindsay Wood

  A sustained high oil price is leading major oil and gas companies to reassess their mature assets, which traditionally would have been sold to smaller operators, when the decline in production reduced the operating margins for the asset.

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Feb 2013

• 2013 Forecast: Active gas well numbers increase slightly

  The number of producing U.S. gas wells showed signs of growth in 2012, just barely reversing the negative trend of the previous year.

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May 2008

• 08-05_Whats_Fischer.html (May-2008)

  Vol. 229 No. 5   ARTIFICIAL LIFT What’s new in artificial lift? Part 2-Ten companies offer 16 surf

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Monday, March 08, 2010

• $1 billion Qatar gas recovery project to kick off

  $1 billion Qatar gas recovery project to kick off Qatar Petroleum, Qatargas and RasGas Company Limited (RasGas) have given the initial go ahead to a key $1 billion environmental project to recover gas currently being flared during Liquefied Natural Gas

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Tuesday, December 01, 2009

• $37 billion Gorgon gas project begins

  $37 billion Gorgon gas project begins The Gorgon natural gas project in Australia, worth an estimated $37 billion, has broken ground. The project is a joint venture between Chevron, Shell and ExxonMobil. Barrow Island will be home to three liquefied

  Drilling and Completions, Production, Australia Read More

Monday, January 04, 2010

• 100 metric tons of diesel spill into rivers from CNPC pipeline

  100 metric tons of diesel spill into rivers from CNPC pipeline A ruptured pipeline belonging to the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), has leaked vast amounts of fuel which have reached the Yellow River, threatening the nation's drinking water, state media

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Tuesday, February 08, 2011

• 2H Offshore awarded Big Foot riser contract

  2H Offshore awarded Big Foot riser contract Chevron awarded 2H Offshore, an Acteon company, a contract for the detailed design and delivery management of the riser systems for the Big Foot field development. 2H Offshore is responsible for the detailed

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Wednesday, October 03, 2012

• 3Legs Resources: ConocoPhillips options lapse, mulls options

  3Legs Resources ConocoPhillips options lapse, mulls options BY IAN WALKER LONDON 3Legs Resources, an independent oil and gas group focusing on the exploration and development of unconventional oil and gas, said that, as anticipated, ConocoPhillips didn't give notice to exercise

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Friday, January 08, 2010

• ABB awarded $21 million contract for UAE pipeline project

  ABB awarded $21 million contract for UAE pipeline project The Switzerland based technology group ABB has announced that it has signed a deal worth $21 million with the contractor China Petroleum Engineering & Construction Corporation (CPECC) that will see the

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