Floating production systems
Technical safety standards are essential as global offshore exploration heats up.
The field, which holds the first production license on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, sent oil to the Jotun FPSO on 23 June.
Less than 3 months after going onstream, the Barents Sea project, the northernmost production offshore Norway, is producing 220,000 B/D.
-
Being first isn’t easy, as the massive Prelude has demonstrated. Since being commissioned in 2018, the world’s largest vessel has suffered a series of setbacks and has now halted production for an indefinite period of time. -
These four technical papers provide an overview of how facility decommissioning is addressed these days, including a case study in east Asia and a discussion of what to do with pipelines, flowlines, and umbilicals to preserve the environment—should they stay, or should they go?
-
Excelerate, once disqualified from the proceedings, ends up with lease agreement to December 2023.
-
New case studies from this year's Offshore Europe were a reminder of how sustaining subsea reservoirs as they age often calls for determined and innovative engineers.
-
Shell moves nonessential personnel off its Perdido deepwater platform as a result of Tropical Storm Nicholas.
-
Damage reports and spill issues surface as operators work to bring production from the GOM back on line.
-
The wells that were taken off line as a result of the blaze had been producing 421,000 B/D of oil.
-
Port Fourchon took the brunt of the Category 4 hurricane as it made landfall Sunday afternoon.
-
Operators remove personnel, shut in production in the region ahead of Ida.
-
A fire at Ku-Maloob-Zaap killed five and sidelined more than 400,000 BOPD.
