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KENYA

Nairobi

July 2013

Contents

Dar es

Dodoma Salaam

GeOLOGY & GeOPhYSIcS 24 Navigating the pitch and roll

TANZANIA of broadband seismic

Andrew McBarnet offers his perspective on last month’s annual meeting of the European Association of

Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) in London, which

MOZAMBIQUE attracted over 8000 delegates.

MarGInaL FIeLdS 28 EOR core topic for the UKCS

With the help of EOR technologies, the UKCS could be a glass-half-full basin, but the industry needs to act fast and cooperate, European editor Elaine Maslin reports.

30 Remote caisson inspection gets a hand

Caisson inspection can be crucial for long term integrity, especially of frewater systems. Graham Marshall,

Cover Story 62 of Sonomatic, offers insight on how the MAG-Rover, steerable crawler, can beneft inspections.

East African Gas

Maputo

OE dives deep into the East African drILLInG waters to discover more about the region’s 32 Emergency-release connectors designed for biggest projects and hydrocarbon fnds.

Audrey Leon looks into the push to turn high bending moment

Drummond Lawson, of Subsea Technologies Ltd., Mozambique into a major LNG exporter, discusses the need for improvements in emergency release while Elaine Maslin highlights London- connector technology, and how his company came to based Ophir Energy’s operations in create the XR connector.

Tanzania. Nina Rach reports on activity off

Kenya.

ePIc 34 North Sea fabrication flling order books

A large amount of fabrication activity in and around the

On the cOver

North Sea is attracting new players, reports Elaine Maslin.

After decades as a frontier exploration area and vastly 40 Fabricating an 8-leg launch jacket under-explored, East Africa is in record time emerging as the world’s newest

Larsen & Toubro’s C.S. Kole and Kumar Rudra discuss how hotspot, with signifcant gas using multiple work centers and close project management discoveries offshore. (Art by enabled the company to deliver an eight-leg MNP jacket to

Marlin Bowman)

ONGC on schedule.

PrOductIOn 46 Mooring line failures attract industry attention

Anchor lines on foating production systems continue to fail, costing the industry lost time and production—why and what is being done?

EXPERT ACCESS-July 52 Quad 204 takes shape subsea

Organizing the weather

Quad 204 will be one of the largest subsea developments in the UKCS. Andrew Train, BP’s project director, and Bob off Sakhalin

MacDonald, Wood Group Kenny’s director, break down

Join us on 16 July 2013 at 11:00 CST as we host a live some of the project’s benefts and challenges.

presentation and Q&A with marine meteorologists Eric

Brozefski and Francis Kredensor, of Wilkens Weather

Technologies LP, a Rockwell Collins Company. Brozefski

SuBSea and Kredensor will discuss their experiences off Sakhalin 58 Deepwater production gets

Island during the ice-free 2012 season, as onsite fore- high-pressure boost casters for Exxon Neftegas Limited (ENL), a subsidiary of

Petrobras’s R&D pushed subsea pumps to overcome

Exxon Mobil Corp. and operator of the Sakhalin-1 project. deepwater production problems. Victor Schmidt

To register, go to www.oedigital.com highlights the company’s production efforts off Brazil.

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