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Since the Macondo disaster, industry publications have discussed the equipment, connections, and interfaces needed for capping and containing a blowing subsea well, but they give little insight into developing a well-specific subsea capping contingency plan.

Antero Resources has built a huge plant to turn waste water into fresh water and salt for sale. The $275-million investment in West Virginia is the most tangible indication of how operators in the Marcellus are pushing water reuse.

McDermott announced a letter of award for a contract from Reliance Industries for the deepwater KG-D6 subsea field development in the Krishna Godavari Basin.

With these synopses of technical papers from OnePetro you can join the author for conferences in Kuala Lumpur, New Orleans, and Lagos, all while sitting in your chairs and without any travel expenses.

The paper discusses dehydration performance of two units in two plants—with preinhibited glycol/antifoam/pH adjuster blend vs. neat glycol with periodic injection of antifoam and pH-adjuster inhibitors. The insights present an opportunity for significant operating and capital costs reduction.

The Oil & Gas Industry Guidance on Voluntary Sustainability Reporting acts as a framework for improving the quality and consistency of voluntary sustainability reporting. This paper discusses the most recent update to the guide, and offers an overview of the discussed social performance indicators.

A proactive approach with EPC contract bidders to front-end load HSE strategies will pay dividends. This paper discusses the HSE management strategy for the Lake Charles Liquefied Natural Gas project.

Statoil selected the name “Empire Wind” for its offshore wind site located off the southern coast of Long Island, New York. The company also recently stepped into solar power in Brazil.

During the dismantling and removal of fire-water-pump columns of superduplex stainless steel barely 1 year after plant startup in a redeveloped brownfield offshore Nigeria severe localized pitting corrosion was observed in the columns. This paper explores the findings and identifies the reasons.

The Pure Pack System from Pentair is a portable system for secondary and tertiary produced water and wastewater treatment. With oil content as high as 5 to 10% at the inlet, the system can yield low-ppm oil at the outlet, and the recovered oil may be processed or sold to deliver value for the end user. No on-site sludge generation or management is required.

Schneider Electric's OASyS SCADA system provides enterprise SCADA for pipeline operations. The system includes real-time performance updates, advanced alarm management, and historical and real-time trending. Its middleware connects and communicates with various modules to enhance responsiveness, and systemwide monitoring uses the least intrusive course of action to re…

Simmons Edeco named Niels Versfeld CEO. Versfeld has 14 years of experience in the energy industry, including 10 years managing sales, operations, and business development for energy services companies. Before joining Simmons Edeco, he served as general manager of Gibson Energy’s environmental services division. He previously worked as COO of Palko Environmental until…