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Significant advances were reported in materials, field optimization, safe operations, corrosion, and wellbore-related technologies related to production and facilities

Rotary-steerable tools (RSTs) are now deemed mainstays in the drilling community.

Considering the current downturn in crude prices, there is a renewed interest in recycling produced water for reuse in hydraulic fracturing in the development of unconventional resource plays.

In this first of a two-part series, the author describes why the use of lump sum contracts for FEED services contract followed by an EPC contract does not fulfil the requirements to lower oil and gas facilities capex.

To do more with less, standardization and automation will be key. Application of techniques honed in other industries need to be evaluated as part of the path toward standardized approaches.

Change. Look around. It is happening faster than most of us have seen in our entire careers. The market is driving change with a desperate insistence.

The journey to an injury- and incident-free operation has many paths, and we can see by the different approaches that progress is being made.

Many offshore decommissioning costs are higher than necessary because of decisions made during the initial engineering and construction for an oil or gas field.

With a high demand for plug and abandonment (P&A) of subsea wells in the future on the Norwegian continental shelf, industry is challenged to find alternatives and rigless technologies that can make P&A operation more cost-effective and -efficient.

This paper describes the preplanning and execution of Australia’s largest subsea well-abandonment campaign to date.