To survive the current economic scenario, the deepwater industry needs to rethink the way projects are carried out. This paper reviews clusters of information that will be termed “building blocks” for deepwater-field-development planning, discussing how they are currently used and exploring more-affordable, but technically robust, alternatives.
Building Blocks
Advantages of Building Blocks. The use of conceptual “building blocks” during concept definition and concept selection is not new; they have been used in field-development planning for more than 3 decades. The field-development building blocks are a very versatile and powerful tool and are relatively simple to define and to use.
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