Floating production systems
Shell has demonstrated drone-in-a-box operations from its Mars floating production unit, becoming the first operator in the region to secure FAA approval for self-approved offshore beyond-visual-line-of-sight flights. JPT Senior Technology Editor Jennifer Pallanich visited Shell Technology Center Houston to see the system in action.
This paper explores the application of a modular, high-temperature gas-cooled nuclear reactor to a Very Large Crude Carrier-class floating production, storage, and offloading vessel.
After launching pre-salt production in Brazil, the ultradeepwater Tupi asset has become one of Petrobras’s most productive.
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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.
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Shell moves nonessential personnel off its Perdido deepwater platform as a result of Tropical Storm Nicholas.
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Damage reports and spill issues surface as operators work to bring production from the GOM back on line.
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The wells that were taken off line as a result of the blaze had been producing 421,000 B/D of oil.
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Port Fourchon took the brunt of the Category 4 hurricane as it made landfall Sunday afternoon.
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Operators remove personnel, shut in production in the region ahead of Ida.
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A fire at Ku-Maloob-Zaap killed five and sidelined more than 400,000 BOPD.
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Search for the missing workers continues as the Mexican state oil company investigates the cause of this latest blaze.
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The facility is the second delivered under Aker BP’s platform alliance designed to use a more integrated project delivery model.
