Pipelines/flowlines/risers
The Japanese company ratcheted up the competitive nature of contracting for a floating production, storage, and offloading vessel and an onshore liquefied natural gas plant for the Abadi project by announcing dual front-end engineering design (FEED) contracts.
Work by researchers at the University of Saskatchewan aims to advance the understanding of clathrate hydrates, crystal cages of ice that can trap gas and liquids.
Electricity produced onshore powers oil production at Johan Sverdrup holding CO₂ emissions at only 5% of the global average.
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DCN Diving has received a contract from Dana Petroleum to execute work offshore the Netherlands. Under the terms of the deal, DCN will perform the fabrication, installation, and precommissioning of various tie-in spools and a flanged connector for Dana’s DP-012 gas export pipeline.
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Tons of resources are devoted to assure the integrity of facility piping systems, but are the generally accepted methods of inspecting these systems the best way? Complex systems with above- and underground piping sections may require a combination of direct assessment and elements of an API code.
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Anadarko Mozambique Area 1, LTDA, a subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum Corp., named the preferred tenderers for provision of the subsea production systems. Formal award will follow final agreement of contracts and Mozambique LNG taking a final investment decision, expected in the first half of this year.
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Wood and KBR inked a multimillion-dollar contract to deliver integrated front-end engineering design (FEED) for Shell Australia's Crux project to build a not-normally-manned (NNM) platform and gas export pipeline located approximately 600 km north of Broome, offshore Western Australia (WA). The Crux field water depth is 110 to 170 m.
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Lobbyists representing US manufacturing and chemical companies are urging Congress to secure natural gas pipelines against physical attacks and cyberattacks.
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Current logistics and pipeline-infrastructure limitations make transportation and production of waxy crude oil challenging, necessitating a step change in the chemistry required to mitigate crude-oil-composition issues.
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Banyu Urip crude contains 26% wax, which can lead to flow-assurance challenges in a crude pipeline exposed to lower temperatures. Injection of pour-point-depressant (PPD) chemicals has been considered an effective method to ensure flow of moderate waxy crude.
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This paper presents a case study that is an example of how reassessing a flow-assurance risk-management strategy for operating assets can identify opportunities for optimization.
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The deal covers the installation of a pair of rigid flowlines for the shallow heavy oil field, Pemex’s largest discovery to date. Work is expected to be completed early next year.
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Pipeline bottlenecks have created a wide gap in the price of gas at a key pipeline hub in the Permian compared to the US benchmark level.