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Volume 38, Number 10 October 2013

Departments Columns & 9 Voices

How will the US Coast Guard’s new rules on offshore cranes affect business in the

Gulf of Mexico? 10 Colloquy

Eyes around the North Sea

INSIDE 12 ThoughtStream 78

Depth drives

Rear Admiral Wendi B. Carpenter on intervention

DEEPWATER INTERVENTION

REVIEW

US maritime strategy: A time for new Anadarko 80 warms to RWLI beginnings.

Subsea waterjet 82 cutting goes ultra-deep and ultra-high pressure 14 Global Briefs

OE Review

News from the around the world, including discoveries, feld starts, and

Pictured is Helix 534 onboard Dockwise’s

DEEpwA TEr INTErVENTION

The Mighty Servant.

Read OE ’s next new contracts.

Review

Deepwater Intervention installment in November. 78 Depth drives intervention

Growing numbers of subsea wells in increasingly deeper waters 21 Analysis will continue to drive the market for well intervention services.

Developing economies continue to be a

Infelds’ James Hearn outlines the market.

core feature of global exploration efforts.

Dr. Peter Henley looks at managing 80 Anadarko warms to RWLI political, societal, and ethical risks in Welltec and operator Anadarko describe a riserless light well intervention operation in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. By Ole such regions.

Eddie Karlsen and Steve Ashcraft.

82 Subsea waterjet cutting goes ultra-deep and ultra- 92 Solutions high pressure

An overview of offshore products and

Waterjet cutting went deepwater during the BP Macondo crisis, services. and pressures and depths are increasing.

By Elaine Maslin.

94 Activity

OFFSHOrE EUrOpE rEVIEw

Company updates from around the industry.

86 GMS unveils S-Class jackup

UAE-based GMS Offshore Contractors is introducing a new class to further expand its feet.

96 Spotlight

Promotions and opportunities.

90 Championing pipe-in-pipe technology

McDermott International’s director of global subsea engineering,

Mark Dixon, made the case for pipe-in-pipe projects as an 98 Editorial Index emerging technology. 91 Hayward predicts geopolitical, price, 100 Advertiser Index technology trends for next decade

Former BP CEO Tony Hayward, now CEO of Genel Energy, gave 102 Numerology the keynote speech at an Offshore Europe conference session on

Industry facts and fgures independent oil companies.

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