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Partners unveil drillship design

At OTC Fincantieri unveiled a new next generation drillship design, Overdrill, created with support from Norway’s Aker Solutions. The vessel, at 208m long and 40m wide, accommodating 210 people, aims to be smaller than existing units through an integrated vessel and drilling equipment design while also increasing the variable deck load capacity. It would be capable of drilling to a maximum depth of 50,000ft, with a dual derrick, manage well pressure of up to 20,000 psi, and have a hook load of 1500-tons, Fincantieri says.

It is designed to come with three knuckle boom cranes, two at 100 metric tonnes and one heave compensated at 165 tonnes. It would also have a fully automated riser handling system, recently designed by Fincantieri and partner Navalimpianti. The frm has also designed retractable thrusters to allow for maintenance from inside the vessel and a recessed moon pool for large Xmas trees.

The helideck can also accommodate two helicopters. www.fncantieri.com 1171 Series Multi-Frequency High- software, and aerospace-grade CAD/OTC launch

Resolution Fan/Cone Sonar Head.The CAM modeling and manufacturing for Osorb

Produced Water operating frequency of the cone trans- capabilities.

Absorbents of ducer can be selected by choosing one www.varelintl.com

Ohio launched its of four frequencies and the frequency

Osorb technology of the fan can be selected by choosing at OTC 2013 for one of three frequencies, or by using the treatment of “tunable” mode where the frequency oil and gas waste- can be changed in 5 kHz increments. water streams. Osorb is a regenerable “This new sonar head operates at high granular media, which PWA says frequency to provide ultra-fne reso- removes up to 99% of free, dispersed, lution data, delivering image quality emulsifed and soluble hydrocarbons, similar to Mesotech scanning sonars,”

Tidal energy modelling tool and oilfeld chemicals from water, in says Konsberg Mesotech Product The Energy Technologies Institute both on and offshore applications. Manager Bogdan Constantinescu. (ETI) and HR Wallingford unveiled

It was developed by a professor at www.km.kongsberg.com/mesotech a tidal energy modelling tool for use the College of Wooster in Ohio and has by tidal energy developers to identify since undergone feld testing through the most effcient sites for tidal energy

PWA in the US and Far East. Results converters, tidal arrays, or tidal barrage

Steel body PDC drill bits demonstrated an average 96.2% reduc- Carrolton, Texas,-based schemes around the UK and French tion in Oil in Water (OIW) from 85 to Varel International coastlines. The program, SMARTtide, 2.9 ppm (parts per million), PWA says. launched its incorporates a 2D hydrodynamic

As well as oil, which can then be Katana-series steel model of the UK’s continental shelf recovered, it also removes other con- body polycrystal- and the northwest European coastline. taminants and can be applied into con- line diamond com- The tool calculates how energy extrac- tainers or injected into a fow stream. pact (PDC) drill bits. tion at one site may affect the energy

It can also remove polymers used in Varel’s PDC Product available elsewhere, and identifes

EOR applications, allowing them to be Manager Cary Maurstad how interactions between different reused. At OTC, PWA also announced describes the line as a defni- sites around the UK combine to form a memorandum of understanding with tive enhancement for the company’s an overall effect and considers what

Enviro-Tech Systems, LA, to help pro- fxed cutter, PDC product line. Katana constraints these interactions will mote Osorb as an oilfeld service. includes higher blade stand offs and place on the design, development and www.pwabsorbents.com greater open face volume, patent-pend- location of future energy systems. The ing hydraulic optimization, upwardly- software will be available to the public angled troughs in the gauge pads, and as a fee-for-service via a portal on HR

Multi-frequency a streamlined cutter pocket design. The Wallingford’s website. sonar head

Kongsberg Mesotech Ltd platform includes SPOT-DN™ cutting hrwallingford.com/projects/ announced the release of the structure design and force balancing SMARTtide

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