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GeOLOGY & GeOPhYSIcS 34 New marine vibrator offers improved performance

Houston-based Geokinetics showed its latest source advance in their booth at the SEG Convention this September.

DrILLInG & cOMPLetIOnS 36 Growing the Caspian’s small rig market

Victor Schmidt examines the market and explains how

Eurasia Drilling is growing the feet.

38 Overview of wellhead fatigue monitoring

BP is developing a system for instrumentation and data interpretation to provide enhanced insight regarding wellhead loading on a real-time basis.

ePIc 44 Singapore’s newest shipyard at Tuas

Sembcorp has completed the frst phase of its state-of-the-art shipyard on Singapore’s west coast. Nina Rach reports.

Feature 46 Crane transfer operations

Refex Marine discusses best practices for the safe transfer of

Asset Integrity personnel, including its recently released 10 Golden Rules.

Structural integrity management – 48 Lightning protection eliminates strikes to off- from cradle to grave 24 shore structures

Though lightning is less likely to strike over open water, there Properly implemented, structural integrity management can provide structural integrity assurance from design is a growing risk to rigs and platforms. Peter Carpenter of to decommissioning, explains Mohammad Nabavian of

Lightning Eliminators explains how the technology works.

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52 Fabrication grows in northeast England

Increasing construction and installation activity globally

Asset integrity – a global perspective 28 is driving demand for fabrication and manufacturing in northeast England. OE’s Elaine Maslin reports. Atkins’ Ramsey Fraser looks at offshore asset integrity assessment techniques and how acceptance criteria

PrODuctIOn depend on geographic region. 58 North Sea renewal

BP is about to launch a major renewal program on its North

Sea Magnus and ETAP facilities. Elaine Maslin reports on the program’s long-term aims.

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Required reading for the Global Oil & Gas Industry since 1975 62 Shallow water subsea systems improve NPV oedigital.com ?

Shallow water subsea systems can be an ideal solution for improving marginal feld net present value. Jerry Streeter,

PIPELAY VESSEL ASSET INTEGRITY DEEPWATER

Market 66 Management 24 Intervention 77

FMC Technologies, discusses the technology.

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Deepwater drivers 66

Kiewit Offshore Services

A high level of investment creates an opportunity for new is hosting several large entrants into the pipelay vessel market says Douglas West- wood’s Singapore-based analyst, Thom Payne. projects this year at its

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Ceramic coatings can prevent corrosion 68 including Anadarko’s

New corrosion approaches and coatings are resolving

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