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TFTPNEUMATIC

OE’s at-a-glance guide to offshore hydrocarbon reserves and key offshore infrastructure globally is updated monthly using data from leading energy analysts In? eld Systems (www.in? eld.com).

New discoveries

Pipelines (operational and 2012 onwards) announced (last

Depth (km) month) range 2010 2011 2012 2013 <8in

Shallow 93 104 64 1 (<500m)

Operational/ (40,910) 41,195

Deep 29 24 19 0 installed (500-1500m)

Ultradeep Planned/ 32 20 34 1 (22,616) 23,014 (>1500m) possible 154 148 117 2

Total (64,020) 64,209

Note: Operators do not announce discovery dates at the time of discovery, so totals for 8-16in previous years continue to change.

Operational/ (65,255) 87,446

Reserves in the installed

Golden Triangle

Spark-less cutting tools are available to eliminate ? res from

Planned/ by water depth 2013-17 (47,441) 47,828 hot work. possible

Water Field Liquid Gas (123,707) 123,965 depth numbers reserves reserves (mmbbl) (bcf) cease all ‘hot work’ replacing the industry

Brazil >16in on its facilities until safety standard, high-speed

Operational/ 333909.252180.00

Shallow (85,935) 87,446 installed improvements are made. grinder with a

Deep 183810.002505.00

Planned/ This event might have lower-speed tool that uses (48,773) 47,828 4114,491.2021,220.00

Ultradeep possible been avoided if a change a proprietary, tungsten (135,118) 135,274

United States in standard methods and carbide-based cutting 1864.651153.50

Shallow tools was in place. What wheel to shear metal,

Production 292732.373050.78

Deep systems worldwide if hot work had been kept rather than striking steel 263596.754060.00

Ultradeep (operational and 2013 onwards) to a minimum by a simple with a whirling stone (last

Floaters

West Africa month) change in the tools used? wheel that throws (265) 1693836.6020,272.81 267

Shallow Operational

How much time, money high-temperature sparks. (42) 528290.0012,640.00 45

Deep Under development and heartache could be The tool is already 192885.003390.00 325 (316)

Ultradeep Planned/possible saved by eliminating the established and working (636) 637 405 43,615.82 70,472.09 need for hot work permits, daily in the North (407) (43,734.82) (82,087.09) (last month) risk evaluations, special Sea. It comes with

Fixed platforms

Green? eld reserves (9763) habitats, and ? reguards? multiple attachments 9806

Operational 2013-17 (153) 147 for different tasks, is

Under development

Water Field Liquid Gas (1486) 1480 depth numbers reserves reserves

Planned/possible

Step change? driven by compressed (mmbbl) (bcf) (11,418) 11,433

A proven tool exists that air, and requires no 81,089.90 840,408.05 1369

Shallow (1367) (last month) (81,068.74) (853,004.33) eliminates the need for specialized training

Subsea wells 187 18,796.24 111,621.48

Deep (4301) a hot work permit, yet other than to change out 4329

Operational (last month) (189) (19,036.24) (111,716.48) (407) 413

Under development has cutoff and grinding its working parts. The 106 21,661.95 67,237.00

Ultradeep (last month) (107) (21,676.95) (70,487.00) (5799) 5915

Planned/possible capability. It produces cultural change needed (10,660) 10,657 1662121,548.091,019,266.53

Total ? lings whose temperature for implementation is 30-60°C (86-140°F) is well minimal. There is one

Global offshore reserves (mmboe) onstream by water depth below the ignition point drawback, the initial cost 2011 2012 20132014201520162017 of any stray hydrocarbon is high; but the savings in 10,310.41 9770.68 71,093.27 34,546.21 38,629.13 29,615.11 55,732.55

Shallow gases on production time, money and life are (last month) (10,380.86) (10,415.50) (70,813.34) (34,943.15) (40,923.08) (30,028.02) (55,109.50) platforms or drilling rigs. irreplaceable.

Deep 1316.73 2618.75 4039.46 6362.53 5793.08 6448.96 15,864.92 (last month) (1316.73) (2618.75) (4039.46) (6518.12) (6124.80) (6627.05) (15,456.26) Manufactured by Perhaps it is time for the

TFT-Pneumatic Industrial industry to implement a 119.94 1515.62 2674.60 2936.68 3143.82 7018.35 17,751.44

Ultradeep (last month) (35.26) (1686.30) (2636.00) (2682.61) (3143.82) (11,515.05) (14,135.35)

Tools, the system new ‘best practice’ that 11,827.09 13,905.05 77,488.8043,845.4347,566.0343,082.4189,348.92

Total (pictured above) changes changes the game for hot the hot-work game by work.

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