Field/project development
As Africa’s top oil producer, Libya is ramping up momentum—offering 22 exploration areas and welcoming BP back to Tripoli with a major deal.
Electricity produced onshore powers oil production at Johan Sverdrup holding CO₂ emissions at only 5% of the global average.
Shell became the first international company to operate producing fields offshore Brazil and the first to navigate the country’s complex and detailed decommissioning permitting process, which involved extensive environmental assessments, regulatory approvals, and coordinated stakeholder engagement.
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This paper describes dynamic reservoir characterization considerations, challenges, and engineering solutions used to derisk field-development decisions confirmed by a well-testing campaign in a complex setting. -
This paper describes development-plan optimization and a probabilistic uncertainty study using Latin hypercube experimental design constrained to production performance in a deepwater Gulf of Mexico field.
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Rigorous engineering remains the key platform to accomplish the dizzying array of complex work on a daily basis and the linchpin in elevating the performance of deepwater projects from acquisition to abandonment.
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The $48.5-billion investment aims to keep the 30-year-old project in western Kazakhstan flowing for years to come.
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The contractor will provide 17 pipeline centrifugal compressors for Aramco’s ongoing project in Saudi Arabia.
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The contracts kick off another round of development in deep and ultradeep water off India’s east coast in the Bay of Bengal.
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Dutch leaders have voted to halt all future production from the large gas field due to seismic activity linked to extraction operations.
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The $6-billion Azeri Central East (ACE) platform is the first BP-operated offshore production facility controlled from onshore.
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Kampala is drawing now on international experience to sidestep the “oil curse” before first crude flows from its Lake Albert developments.
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The contractor will install the flowline and related subsea equipment later this year for the Talos Energy-led development.
