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The increasing global scarcity of water means more companies need to see and begin treating water as an asset, said Emmanuel Garland, environmental expert with Total, during a topical luncheon titled “Water Management—Change of Paradigm: Water as an Asset.”

A destructive run of three hurricanes has been a catalyst for a flurry of innovations in decommissioning shallow-water wells in the US Gulf of Mexico.

In a session titled, “Mexico Energy Reform: Challenges and Opportunities,” Gustavo Hernández García, state oil company Pemex acting director of exploration and production, spoke about the future of the company.

Angola’s Block 17 is nearing the end of one era of development and the beginning of its next.

The list of wells drilled using dual gradient includes one drilled in the “eastern Gulf of Mexico,” which could be more precisely described as offshore Cuba.

The impact of the development of onshore unconventional resources on the offshore sector, safety and environmental protection, and new opportunities and their technical challenges were highlights at the 2014 Offshore Technology Conference.

The Troll field is one of the largest gas producers discovered off Norway, but ensuring its long-term future required finding ways to drill wells in an increasingly fragile formation to develop its rich oil reserves.

Two years ago, as drillers approached the bottom of a deepwater well in the Lula field, they were stopped again and again by total drilling fluid losses.

Dual-gradient drilling has long been described as the drilling method of the future for challenging offshore wells. Now, indications show it could start being used with some regularity.

In artificial-lift applications, a new anchoring device for insertable progressing-cavity pumps (I-PCPs) extends I-PCP applications to a larger set of candidate wells.