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The risk management expert teams up with academia, robotics specialist for autonomous and remote-controlled vehicle research project.
Fuel is being delivered to the US East Coast again after hackers infiltrated the company’s operation. Colonial reportedly paid a $5-million ransom.
The operator is planning for an FPU in the Gulf of Mexico field that is capable of producing 100,000 B/D of oil.
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Colonial Pipeline shuttered its East Coast fuel pipeline system as data was hacked and held for ransom. -
Fourteen technologies from 13 companies around the world were selected, including five companies receiving small business recognition.
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The launch in Europe in mid-April of a new gas cloud imaging system from US technology company Honeywell will reveal the ability of artificial intelligence systems to improve safety at oil and gas installations.
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Expressions of interest released by the operator include everything from abandonment to life extension.
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Large-scale immersive simulators will be integrated with basic safety and survival training and lessons learned from both service companies and operators.
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The contractor will supply subsea equipment for the Brazilian state oil company’s Marlim, Voador field revitalization project.
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Supply chain companies have seen their profits squeezed since the E&P cost cuts of the previous downturn, and just as the industry could finally hope for better days, the COVID-19 pandemic caused the value of 2020’s awarded contracts to slump to a 16-year low of $446 billion. -
On the normally unmanned Valhall Flank West platform, the survey of a 1-year-old box boom pedestal crane featured auto-testing of the automatic overload protection system. A similar inspection program was performed on two knuckle boom cranes on a FPSO vessel in Skarv.
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Shell cargo was deemed carbon-neutral because of offsets purchased by the LNG provider from the oil company’s global, nature-based projects.
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Russia’s second-largest gas producer plans to raise $11 billion with the help of China, Japan, and Europe.
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The planned LNG export facility will host a large carbon capture and storage project to enable the permanent geologic storage of more than 5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year.
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A system was designed to extend the offshore wind-energy concept from the power grid to a subsea field-development application. The system integrates a floating foundation with a wind-turbine generator, with all the required utilities hosted directly onboard the same floater.
For as long as anyone can remember, the liquid carry-over separation efficiency of 0.1 gal/MMscf has been ubiquitously specified in separator design. This article provides the most likely scenario of its evolution.
Process design of separation internals is just one step in improving the vessel performance. Just as important are the support design and installation steps. These lessons learned help to guide good off- and on-site planning to minimize separator turnaround.
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Oversizing a separator ensures meeting the life cycle needs of a facility, but are we setting ourselves up for failure in the long run? With peak rates typically being short-lived at best, or at worse, well beyond actual production rates, more weight needs to be given to the tail-end of production.
This article highlights some of the code and registration issues the Savvy Separator engineer encounters when retrofitting a vessel with internals to improve or restore the process performance of the separator.
By understanding the factors involved in oil droplet coalescence, the Savvy Separator engineer can assess the operational/chemical factors in the treatment system that are affecting droplet growth and make adjustments to enhance coalescence rates.
In this tenth article of the series, the author focuses primarily on specific operational elements of troubleshooting rather than the mechanical design of the separator.
Lessons learned in debottlenecking a “dirty” triethylene glycol contactor at the ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company’s LaBarge Black Canyon Facility in Wyoming highlight the results of work performed between 2001 and 2004.