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GeOLOGY & GeOPhYSIcS 34 Predicting pore pressure by modeling shale compaction

Knowing shale properties helps with predrill interpretation, basin modeling, and wellbore design.

DrILLInG & cOMPLetIOnS 38 Emergency-release connectors designed for high bending moment

Choosing the best accumulator depends on the subsea environment, reliability, and cost.

ePIc 48 The heave compensation conundrum

Selecting the right heave compensation system is not as simple as it seems. OE asked leaders of

Jumbo Shipping and Huisman to share their views.

Feature 50 Advances in bollard pull testing technology

Bollard pull testing has been around for decades, but recent changes in technique, technology, and data-logging allow

Decommissioning fne tuning.

Clearing infrastructure from the 52 Heavy lifting gets versatile

Gulf of Mexico to the North Sea 26

The global offshore heavy lift market is fragmented, but

Infrastructure removal activities using cutting-edge evolving, with new vessels expected to bring a step change in technology in the Gulf of Mexico can be transferred to capability and fexibility. Elaine Maslin reports. newly emerging markets such as the North Sea.

InterventIOn

Supply chain shortfalls on the 54 Statoil’s process intervention challenge

UK continental shelf 32

As subsea production systems enter a new era, Statoil is

A new report shines a spotlight on fnding that designing, qualifying, and installing the subsea the UK’s decommissioning supply-chain.

factory is just the start, Elaine Maslin explains.

PrODuctIOn

On the cOver 58 Using VIEC to enhance oil separation

Transocean’s Sedco 704

Vessel internal electrostatic coalescer (VIEC) technol- semisubmersible was moored and ogy enhances oil recovery, Meg Chesshyre reports.

being downmanned in Cromarty

SuBSeA

Firth, Invergordon, Scotland, when

Mark Johnson captured this image. 63 Monitoring is only the beginnning

FPS monitoring systems can provide real-time informa- After a rig move, crew members tion for operations, but a holistic approach is needed.

took an elevator down the inside of the leg and then climbed through 66 HMPE rope enables deeper operations a small hole onto the pontoon

Synthetic rope technology has evolved and is replacing before getting a ride to shore. wire rope where weight matters.

www.rigmover.com

GeOGrAPhIc 71 Mexico’s deep water

Pemex recently drilled three successful wells in the Perdido

Fold Belt, and has some development plans.

EXPERT ACCESS-August 72 Colombia’s promising future

The next few years could see major investments in Colombian

HMPE rope technology waters explains Audrey Leon.

enables deeper

OFFShOre eurOPe PrevIeW and safer operations 74 A technology-fuelled future

Join us August 20th at 11:00 AM CST for a

The Next 50 Years is the strap-line of this year’s SPE Offshore

Live Presentation and Q&A session on rope use in the

Europe. Elaine Maslin reports.

offshore industry and how new materials are enabling the industry’s reach into deeper water.

78 Confdence without complacency

SPE Offshore Europe’s chairman Malcolm Webb gives his

See page 89 for more information.

outlook for the industry.

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