Gulf of Mexico

How do mooring systems reduce risks of hurricane damage to mobile offshore drilling units?

A 2-year comprehensive effort to design, test, manufacture, and deploy a new high-pressure completion tubular for Chevron’s deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GOM) operations is presented.

A RPSEA project identified the gaps in technology that are the most pressing for multiphase-flow measurement.

Historically, the marine systems on a spar are relatively simple.

The authors have developed an active acoustic automatic leak-detection sonar designed to detect hydrocarbon leaks (mono- and multiphase oil and gas) at significant ranges, allowing coverage of wide areas from a single sensor.

As with other MPD systems, SMD technology offers early detection of influxes (kicks) and minimizes downhole losses to weak subsurface formations.

This paper describes the architecture of the Lucius Gulf of Mexico subsea production system and the drivers behind it.

This paper provides a first-hand perspective on the appropriate handling of nanomaterials in a laboratory setting.

After the 2010 subsea blowout of the Macondo well that resulted in 11 deaths and the worst oil spill in US history, early kick detection technology found itself at the top of the wish list for regulators and offshore companies seeking to avoid similar accidents.

The lower tertiary formation found in the pre-salt layers of the Gulf of Mexico has become a proving ground for extending what is possible when completing multistage fracturing in ultradeepwater wells.