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The prospect of natural gas in a riser commonly summons up a vision of a deadly, fast-rising bubble exploding on to the floor of a drilling rig. But comments by consultants on an OTC panel argued that it is a poor description of how gas behaves in a deepwater riser.

After the 2010 subsea blowout of the Macondo well that resulted in 11 deaths and the worst oil spill in US history, early kick detection technology found itself at the top of the wish list for regulators and offshore companies seeking to avoid similar accidents.

The recent plunge in oil prices has reinforced a number of truths about our industry.

Comprehensive formation evaluation is one of the technical focus areas that is fundamental across almost all upstream businesses.

The 2015 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) will be held at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston on 28–30 September.

Projects are being delayed or deferred due to low oil prices, which is affecting the market for subsea, umbilicals, risers, and flowlines (SURF).

The OGF peer review editor invites discussion on published papers and introduces the five papers in this issue.

The author muses on oil supply and demand and complexity in projects.

Produced water from chemical floods can cause problems for separation and water treatment equipment due to the polymers and surfactants used. Challenges are greater offshore where space limitations can affect treatment options.

Efficient separation assumes uniform flow, but the reality of inlet geometries can invalidate this assumption, leading to separation problems and loss of separation efficiency.