Onshore/Offshore Facilities
As the pace of new discoveries slows and high-quality prospects become harder to find, oil companies may need to rely more heavily on mature fields to maintain production and support future supply.
With confidence in subsea boosting performance growing, BP is incorporating pumping systems into both greenfield developments and brownfield expansions.
The legacy of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) is a persistent problem in many industries, including upstream oil and gas. In this Q&A, remediation expert Grant Scott presents the trouble with these “forever chemicals” and the mitigating efforts being used.
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Australia must insist on full removal when ExxonMobil decommissions the offshore project, the Wilderness Society has said. -
The birthplace of Royal Dutch Shell, Indonesia and Malaysia, buck trends and grow their gas and oil industries, expecting a record number of final investment decisions in the next 4 years in gas, deep water, and carbon capture projects to support Southeast Asia’s booming economic growth.
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This paper reports the observation of stealth asphaltenes, a potential flow-assurance issue, by means of experimental analysis.
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This year’s Flow Assurance Technology Focus provides a trio of papers concerning the use of advanced techniques in detection, mitigation, and risk calculation
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This study investigates hydrate formation in a water-alternating-gas injection well under water-to-gas and gas-to-water changeover operations.
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This paper describes the suite of cloud-based digital twin tools that the operator has developed and is integrating into its operations, providing online, real-time calculation of scale risk and deployed barrier health to manage risk on a well-by-well basis.
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FPSO to be connected to high-pressure subsea separation technology pilot project.
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Machine learning and a decade of gas composition records helped the operator identify wells that were most likely to produce paraffins.
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The increase in flaring emissions was led by operations in the Middle East, Africa, and Russia.
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Petrobras said the unit serving the pre-salt field is designed to reduce up to 24% of emissions.
