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OE ’s at-a-glance guide to offshore hydrocarbon

Analysis reserves and key offshore infrastructure globally is updated monthly using data from leading energy analysts Infeld Systems (www.infeld.com).

New discoveries Pipelines (operational and 2013 onwards) announced (last

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

Shallow 93 105 75 23 (<500m)

Operational/ (41,793) 41,860

Deep 28 25 23 8 installed (500-1500m)

Ultradeep Planned/ 36 20 34 13 (23,645) 23,721 (>1500m) possible 157 150 132 44

Total (65,438) 65,581

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

Operational/ (77,457) 77,688

Reserves in the installed

Golden Triangle

Planned/ by water depth 2013-17 (47,149) 47,837 possible

Water Field Liquid Gas (124,606) 125,525 depth numbers reserves reserves (mmbbl) (bcf)

Brazil >16in

Patrick O’Brien, CEO, type of interfaces we should

Operational/ 22 1,721.75980.00

Shallow (88,414) 89,110 installed the Industry Technology have in the future.

Deep 16 3,257.00 2,255.00

Planned/

Facilitator, says: “The real- “We should agree on how (48,333) 50,241 40 12,428.45 17,340.00

Ultradeep possible ity is you have a standard to connect the product to (136,747) 139,351

United States against which you design, the system and then [the 24 106.95 1,146.50

Shallow but you have things that go supply chain can] compete

Production 23 1,378.71 1,624.87

Deep wrong and you have to fx it. on the best product.” systems worldwide 24 2,989.00 3,340.00

Ultradeep (operational and 2013 onwards) “So then the operator Helge Sverre Eide, busi- (last

Floaters adds a specifcation to cover ness manager, Blue Logic,

West Africa month) (277) 147 3,416.55 18,047.59 277

Shallow Operational that problem not happening agrees, especially for inter- (48) 46 5,454.00 6,320.00 48

Deep Under development again. That is when you get vention on subsea process- 14 1,900.00 2,650.00 313 (313) the build-up in company- ing systems. “Interface stan-

Ultradeep Planned/possible (638) 638 detailed specifcations.” dardization is a simple way

Total 356 32,562.41 53,703.96 (last month) (360) (33,444.96) (54,451.18) of moving quickly forward,”

Fixed platforms he says. “If you look at the

A quick win, perhaps

Greenfeld reserves (9,655) 9,655

Operational

A quick win could be to electronics industry and the 2013-17 (145) 145

Under development

Water Field Liquid Gas standardize interface con- USB, it was produced as an (1,467) 1,467 depth numbers reserves reserves

Planned/possible (mmbbl) (bcf) nections and tools, which interface and has created an (11,267) 11,267 1,284 75,600.19 824,193.58

Shallow are the interface to connect explosion of products.” (last month) (1,315) (77,066.36) (832,926.99)

Subsea wells systems, but are some- Standardizing core com-

Deep 160 13,654.58 80,326.57 (4,416) 4,416

Operational (last month) (165) (13,879.58) (83,871.57) times used only once or ponents would also create (411) 411

Under development twice, suggests Rune Mode repeat orders, enabling 97 17,746.45 66,847.00

Ultradeep (last month) (99) (18,392.45) (67,197.00) (6,007) 6,007

Planned/possible

Ramberg, chief engineer suppliers to invest in stock, (10,834) 10,834 1,541 107,001.22 971,367.15

Total subsea technology and which would improve lead operations, Statoil. times, create a buffer during

Global offshore reserves (mmboe) onstream by water depth “This [the standardization execution, and therefore 2011 2012 201320142015 20162017 of interfaces] is something improve schedules.

6,006.89 10,471.06 65,246.75 30,610.38 36,880.04 34,931.09 53,788.13

Shallow the supply chain and opera- (last month) (10,421.19) (6,132.60) (65,316.14) (31,247.39) (38,700.72) (35,037.35) (54,172.29) tors need to do together,”

Involve the supply chain

Deep 1,312.21 1,735.15 3,528.61 5,788.99 4,144.84 5,282.95 9,070.98 he says, “because it is not For standardization to be (last month) (1,312.21) (1,768.96) (3,528.61) (5,788.99) (4,320.26) (5,353.47) (9,675.04) really the interfaces we a success, Jarand Rystad, 199.94 737.15 3,243.07 2,922.43 1,907.54 5,669.67 15,789.23

Ultradeep (last month) (199.94) (737.15) (3,090.44) (3,075.06) (1,789.91) (6,060.93) (16,231.98) should spend much time on, managing partner of Rystad 11,983.22 8,479.18 72,018.43 39,321.42 42,932.42 45,883.71 78,648.34

Total they do not add any value. Energy, says the supply 8 August 2013

We should look in to what chain needs to be involved

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