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As many platforms begin to produce beyond their design life, maintenance of mooring systems becomes more critical. With redundancies in place, operators may be unaware of initial failures, which can have major consequences if another failure occurs.

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

Preferential engineering adds complexity and cost. The author's manifesto focuses on simple and elegant, combined with collaboration to meet future facilities needs.

An underperforming scrubber that was suffering from too much oil carry-over is described along with options for debottlenecking and improving performance.

To support subsea processing of heavy crudes, an inline electrocoalescer was tested for separation of water droplets dispersed in the crude oil.

After initial exploration, a prospect deep in the Amazon jungle was declared non-commercial. The authors discuss how the initial project planning contributed to the decommissioning effort by means of life-cycle planning.

An ecosystem-based management program is described to assess the potential sensitivities and contribution of the platform as an artificial reef.

The authors discuss the results of a pilot project to capture post-combustion CO2 for purposes of EOR.

A routine maintenance project became more complicated when an ROV inspection exposed unexpected trenching that reduced the holding capacity of the system.

Vibration-induced fatigue failures of pipework smallbore connections result in elevated safety risks and costly interruptions to normal operations. A common cause is poor design. This article discusses design considerations to avoid these failures.