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The second of Nord Stream 2’s twin pipelines is scheduled for completion in August, with the first line having been finished and prepped for filling earlier this month. Politically, Nord Stream 2 has been nothing less than a high-stakes poker game among nations to achieve geopolitical goals.
The new field, which is tied back to the Na Kika platform, is expected to add over 20,000 B/D of new production at peak.
The field's partners, led by operator Suncor, agree to restructure the offshore project ownership to give a boost to plans for life extension.
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The midstream operators plan to have the CO2 pipeline network operational as soon as 2025 and flowing at full stream by 2027. -
The 2020 tally from the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers shows that fatalities decreased from the previous year.
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The marine contractor will utilize its North Ocean 102 pipelay/lift vessel for the work at the Shenzi field.
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Tropical storms severely affect oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico, especially during the storm season from June to December. Offshore well managers often need to shut down operations and evacuate the facility because of storm alerts. The purpose of this paper is to determine the effect of storms on production by quantifying metrics such as downtime days and…
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The organizers of SPE Offshore Europe 2021 have announced that the show’s face-to-face event is moving to 1–4 February 2022 at P&J Live, Aberdeen, and the conference will be held virtually 7–10 September 2021.
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The company's CEO said future plans for the 1,200-mile-long pipeline have been officially terminated.
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Experts from around the world highlight that, while natural gas has an important role to play in the energy transition, it is one that changes from region to region. -
IGU report highlighted pandemic-related delays that kept many international projects from coming on line in 2020.
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The sole bidder for the Bahia liquefied natural gas regasification terminal in Brazil was turned away for noncompliance of tender rules.
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The Canadian pipeline operator will also operate the proposed floating LNG project with a planned startup slated for 2027.
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Energy trader Vitol will take 3 mtpa over a 10-year period.
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Technical Papers
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.
Troubleshooting and solving separation problems takes a combination of analytical tools, experience, and a knack for investigation. These 5 lessons provide a starting point for assessment.
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.