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Operators celebrate first major deepwater project sanctioned since the early-2020 oil crash.

To navigate the new business environment, the P&F community must advance promising concepts through the feasibility, design optimization, and/or pilot testing phase into the detailed design, execution, commercialization, and optimization phases.

Dugong could become a new North Sea production hub says offshore explorer Neptune Energy upon its latest discovery.

The LNG A-Box containment system is designed for LNG carriers to serve smaller terminals, where larger ships are not feasible.

Development in software, technology, and a global 4G network combine to make ROV operations possible between offshore vessels and remote locations.

While it remains today only an idea, there are but a few barriers keeping an unmanned floater from being realized, according to one of the world’s leading offshore engineering firms.

In 2015, the world’s first subsea multiphase gas compression system was installed offshore Norway. The system comprises two-off 5-MW machines configurable for serial or parallel compression. This system has now gained considerable and valuable operational experience.

The traditional subsea tieback model is evolving, supported by advances in flow assurance that allow tiebacks over much longer distances and by the introduction of new technologies that increase overall cost effectiveness.

A multizone water-injection project has ultimately proved a method of using intelligent completion interval-control valves in place of traditional sand-control completions in soft sand reservoirs.

The paper describes options for hydrate and integrity management and the required modifications to both subsea and topside facilities to enable an operational philosophy change.