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Volume 41, Number 9 September 2016

ENGINEERING PLASTIC SOLUTIONS

VS.

METAL POLYMERS

Departments & Columns 8 Undercurrents: Just keep ? oating

OE staff ponder the FPSO marketplace and more.

10 The Barrel: Down and up?

Getting fed up with the yoyo’ing of oil prices.

12 Global Briefs

COST SAVING

CORROSION

Nylacast Polymers reduce and

News from the around the world, including discoveries,

Nylacast Polymers do not eliminate maintenance and machine oxidise like metals or alloys downtime This saves both time ? eld starts, and contracts.

Up to greater life span 25x and money 17 Field of View: Beginning of the end

Putting the Brent ? eld online in 1976 was a feat. Decommissioning the

WEAR

Unlike metals, Nylacast polymers

WEIGHT have self-lubrication qualities ? eld’s four massive platforms is equally challenging. Elaine Maslin sets

Nylacast Polymers are and therefore need no additional generally 1/7th the weight of lubrication most metals out Shell’s latest plans and how it came to them.

60 Solutions

An overview of offshore products and services.

62 Spotlight: Collaboration, Bach and subsea processing

Elaine Maslin pro? les Statoil’s project manager technology development and UTC conference moderator Simon Davies.

64 Activity

Company updates from around the industry. 65 Editorial Index 66 October Preview & Advertiser Index

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