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Contents

GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS 38 Fractured basement reservoirs: a new play for the UK

Are the UK’s fractured basement reservoirs ripe for exploitation? Hurricane Energy’s Robert Trice explains why he believes they are.

42 Rock analysis enters new era

Audrey Leon reports on Schlumberger’s new CoreFlow services, which combine both physical and digital analysis to reduce lab time.

44 Advanced analytics in the digital oil ? eld: A team game

An explosion of data and ever more complex work ? ows requires new ways of working in order to realize the digital oil? eld goal. Ray Millward addresses the issue.

Features

Recent progress on Gulfstar.

DRILLING & COMPLETIONS

Photo from Williams Partners.

48 Lubrication evolution

A new environmental lubricant supports key subsea

Gulf of Mexico boosting and compression technology. Castrol Offshore’s

Chris Morrissey explains.

76 High hopes for growth

Pemex CEO Emilio Lozoya discussed Mexico’s energy future at IHS CERAWeek. Audrey Leon reports.

EPIC 78 Mexico opens the door 50 Gulfstar system nears completion to foreign investment

Williams’ Gulfstar FPS system is nearly complete, and set

Mexico is now initiating reforms to allow foreign to serve Hess’ Tubular Bells ? eld in mid-2014. Stephen participation in domestic exploration and production.

Whit? eld provides an overview of the spar’s development.

82 De-risking Gulf of Mexico operations 52 Testing subsea BOPs to the limit and maintenance practices

Third-party, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing has been

Martha Sandia, of Stork Technical Services, discusses taken beneath the waves on a subsesa MUX BOP. Elaine how maintenance, like safety, is everyone’s business.

Maslin reports.

86 Kings of the Gulf

Sarah Parker Musarra examines Shell’s Mars B Sarah Parker Musarra examines Shell’s Mars B Olympus

PRODUCTION and BP’s Na Kika. 56 Making connections

Belden’s Tim Wallaert demonstrates how proper networking 90 Seismic advances solutions can reduce time to ? rst oil and increase uptime.

spur shallow water success

EPL Oil & Gas’ Andre Broussard details how seismic developments have affected shallow water exploration.

SUBSEA 60 21st century subsea comms

Subsea wireless communication is moving into a new

Required reading for the Global Oil & Gas Industry since 1975

ON THE COVERON THE COVER oedigital.com ?

era and industry body Subsea Wireless Group hopes to

Eyes on the Gulfstar.Eyes on the Gulfstar.

introduce new standards. Elaine Maslin reports.

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PRODUCTION SUBSEA COMMS NEWBUILD MARKET

Pictured is William’s ? oating Pictured is William’s ? oating

Floating networks 56 Reaches new era Going deep 92 oedi ital.com Rig Market Drillships Gulf of Mexico Vol. 39 No.4 g production spar-based production spar-based 66 Cooling subsea power system system Gulfstar. Upended in

Siemens’ subsea power grid aims to be the ? rst at water • • •

February, it is set to serve February, it is set to serve

Gulf of depths down to 3000m at long step-outs. Elaine Maslin went

Mexico 78 Opening Mexico to •

Hess’ Tubular Bells ? eld Hess’ Tubular Bells ? eld foreign investment to ? nd out more.

86 Olympus and Na Kika: •

Kings of the Gulf 90 Shallow water success • by mid-2014. Built almost by mid-2014. Built almost

Commissioning 50 Williams’ Gulfstar FPS • nears completion entirely in the US, its core entirely in the US, its core 70 Preventing integrity problems for ? exibles

April 2014

Flexlife’s Stuart Mitchell explains how unbonded ? exible module has the capacity to module has the capacity to pipes can suffer integrity problems over time and discusses produce 60,000-90,000bo/d. produce 60,000-90,000bo/d.

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