Balmoral Pilot Gives KOP MultiBooster™ the Chance to Show Its Worth
Apr 6, 2004
AkerKværner’s MultiBooster™ subsea pump is to be installed on Eni UK’s Balmoral field in a pilot project that represents an important step towards commercial application. The project will provide an opportunity for the pump to demonstrate increased production from a field in its late life. By Per E. Sørum. [ In 3/4-2004 ]

INTEC Engineering Joins West Delta Deep Integrated Client Team
Apr 6, 2004
Building on the success of its contributions to the BG-operated Scarab Saffron project in the West Delta Deep Marine (WDDM) concession, INTEC Engineering is providing professional services for the BG-operated Simian/Sienna and Sapphire deepwater projects for continued development of the concession offshore Egypt. By Peter M. Roberts. [ In 3/4-2004 ]

INTSOK Brings Norwegian Oil and Gas “Stars” to Houston
Apr 6, 2004
It is refreshing to see the way that INTSOK, Norwegian Oil and Gas Partners, fits in to the Houston, Texas, community. Houston is a city that prides itself on the size and impact of industries and interests. In February, it hosted the “SuperBowl” and celebrated the stars of American football. In March, the focus has shifted to the Rodeo – the world’s largest – and cowboys have become the local stars. In July, it will be baseball as the 75th Annual All-Star game will come to Houston. By Else Hafstad Terry. [ In 3/4-2004 ]

The Art of Building Living Quarters
Apr 6, 2004
Kristin Living Quarters (LQ) delivered on time to Stord …
… quality workmanship and a great design … [ In 3/4-2004 ]

Internet: Spam Wars – Stick a Stamp On It!
Apr 6, 2004
It’s official: Spam now accounts for more than half of all e-mails sent every day. And there is no respite in sight; analysts estimate that it will take us only three years to reach the 70 percent mark. In an environment of ever-smarter spammers and increasingly disgruntled e-mail users, ISPs and anti-spam experts are coming up with new weapons. By Erlend Gram Simonsen. [ In 3/4-2004 ]

Developing Buzzard
Apr 6, 2004
Defying the view that the U.K. central North Sea was too mature for a world-class discovery, EnCana is operating the Buzzard development, the largest oil discovery in the region in nearly a decade. The field, with an estimated billion barrels of original oil in place, is being developed by EnCana and its co-ventureres, with first oil anticipated in 2006. By Paul Doble. [ In 3/4-2004 ]

Commentary, 1/2, 2004
Feb 13, 2004
Oil and Gas Econ 101
The oil and gas industry, like any other industry, is at the mercy of the marketplace. And markets are typically reactive. That is to say, all the people who make up the market tend to collectively react to various stimuli. We most often track these reactions with line charts, which provide the sensation of being up-to-the-minute when it comes to market trends (especially when they’re updated every 15 minutes on the Web). It’s like strapping a lie detector to the market and following the jumping, jagged line to see just how the market’s reacting to current events. Bar charts can be interesting for comparison and pie charts are great for expressing parts of a whole, but line charts, often accompanied by negative or positive percentages, are what it takes to appease investors. [ In 1/2-2004 ]

From the Editor: Hocus Focus
Feb 13, 2004
It’s not possible to think about the entire global oil and gas industry concretely. It’s just too big – there’s too much for the mind to take in all at once.You have to focus – to break through the abstract and move down towards the industry’s component parts. Even then, the industry’s so large, so ubiquitous, that it’s not an easy task to decide just where to aim your focus. We think we’ve come up with a constructive approach. So in addition to our usual thematic focal points,we have introduced with this issue our new country focus sections, in which we concentrate on our North Sea neighbours’ involvement in the industry. [ In 1/2-2004 ]

Cross Border Collaboration Through Integration
Feb 12, 2004
The small businesses play a far more important role to our economies than before. In particular this relates to technology companies. Springboard UK is an initiative aimed to meet the demands of the small and medium sized technology companies (SMEs), to become active players in the global market. By Hans Peter Christophersen. [ In 1/2-2004 ]

Cutting Costs With Titanium
Feb 12, 2004
Corrosion-resistant, high-strength titanium has an aura. One thinks of aerospace and other high-tech industries, yet titanium’s strength and light weight, combined with its elasticity and corrosion resistance make it an excellent choice for long-term cost savings in offshore industries. Permascand, a high-tech company with a strong track record, began its experience with titanium in 1972 with the introduction of dimensionally stable anodes (DSA®) for the chlor-alkali industry. [ In 1/2-2004 ]

ALIVE: An Autonomous Light Intervention Vehicle
Feb 12, 2004
With the growing trend to develop deep and ultra-deep fields, the offshore oil and gas industry is increasingly demanding tools for cost-effective, reliable exploitation and maintenance of subsea equipment. Over the past decades, ROVs and ROTs have proven to be very efficient and versatile. These vehicles have become more sophisticated; however, they still require a great amount of electrical energy as well as constant, real-time supervision/control by highly trained operators. Support vessels are therefore clearly the primary part of operating expenditures (OPEX) for inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) of deepwater field, and the only way to suppress them is to remove the intervention vehicle’s umbilical, that is to turn ROVs into Intervention-AUVs (I-AUV). By Pierre Marty. [ In 1/2-2004 ]

LOGIC – A Success Story
Feb 12, 2004
Following a collapse in oil price in the late nineties, which made many of the UK oil/gas fields potentially uneconomic, a senior level joint industry/Government group was formed – the Oil & Gas Industry Task Force (Now called PILOT). In 1999, this group realised that an independent industry organisation was needed in order to dramatically improve efficiency in the key areas of Supply Chain and pan-industry collaboration. This body became LOGIC and with initial funding from the DTI and five Trade Associations, started work in early 2000. By Chris Freeman. [ In 1/2-2004 ]

German Marine and Offshore Equipment – A Driving Force in Technology and Cost Efficiency
Feb 12, 2004
Germany, one of the largest exporters of high-tech marine and offshore equipment, has been a reliable partner of the worldwide shipping and offshore industry for many years. In the field of high sophisticated vessels and offshore systems the German equipment companies hold an especially strong position in the world market, not only for engines and propulsion, but also for deck machinery, pumping and processing systems, environmental technologies and in many other fields. By Hauke Viktor Schlegel. [ In 1/2-2004 ]

Internet: Amazon’s Digital Dream
Feb 12, 2004
Jeff Bezos shares an idea with a few other idealists: He wants to get every written word in the world online, in a vast digital library. So far he has assembled 120,000 written works. His goals are simple: To create the world’s biggest searchable digital bookstore. And to make a bundle of money in the process. By Erlend Gram Simonsen. [ In 1/2-2004 ]

Issue 11/12, 2004
Dec 15, 2003

• Downstream
• Renewable Energy and Utilities
• Industry Review 2004
• Market forecast 2005

[ In 11/12-2004 ]