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Volume 38 Number 1

Departments Columns

CHALLENGES IN &

SCIENCE 11 Inception Lets get started.

13 Voices What is the biggest challenge facing the global oil & gas industry in 2013? A selection of academic, E&P and service industry professionals give their opinion.

A UNIQUE BUSINESS

AND TECHNOLOGY ‘To improve is to change,’ said 15 Publisher’s Column .

Winston ChurchillOE Publisher Brion Palmer briefs on the

EVENT FOR THE exciting future for the magazine.

E&P INDUSTRY

The most successful designs – and 18 Editor’s Column companies – are ef? cient, robust and ? exible, writes Nina .

Rach, OE’s Technology Editor Should we deliberately build systems that bene? t from stress?

MARCHMARCHMARCHMARCHMARCH

Prof Michael J Economides 20 Ebb & Flow examines the repurcusions of Woodside’s purchase of a 30% working interest in the 5-7 2013 .

Leviathan project

News from the around 22 Global Briefs

NORRIS CONFERENCE CENTER the world, including Oceaneering’s contract to supply 43km of

HOUSTON, TEXAS electro-hydraulic steel tube control umbilicals for Esso’s Kizomba Satellites

Phase 2 development (Kizomba B pictured).

25 Analysis

Gregory Hale and Richard Sale assess potential cyber threats to the offshore industry. 74 Solutions

The latest products and services for the offshore industry.

76 Activity

Company updates from around the industry.

77 On the Move

Promotions and opportunities.

78 Company Index

See pages 42-43 inside for a preview of featured 80 Advertiser Index speakers and sessions!

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