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Contents

GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS 34 Looking for Ireland’s Jubilee

Could new exploration ideas ? nally create the oil rush Ireland has been waiting for? Elaine Maslin takes a look.

DRILLING & COMPLETIONS 38 Drilling optimization offshore Sarawak

Shell reduced its Malaysian exploration well costs to make smaller deposits more economic. Elaine Maslin reports. 40 Offshore drilling optimization

NOV’s Alex Barrie discusses key to the next generation of drilling optimization.

EPIC 44 Babcock beefs up

Babcock has its eyes on growth in the offshore upstream sector after its ? rst major project. Elaine Maslin paid a visit.

PRODUCTION 46 Intelligent energy in action

Feature

BP’s Field of the Future program has been put into action on the

PSVM development offshore Angola. Elaine Maslin reports.

SUBSEA

Remote Technologies 48 In? atable seals for critical offshore applications

Bruno Rouchouze and Cindy Krishna, of Technetics Group, 28

Automation can ful? ll discuss the mechanics of in? atable seals and their applications.

skills shortage remotely

Greg Hale explains how leveraging

PIPELINES automation for remote condition monitoring 52 A heavy challenge can help increase productivity.

The Bentley ? eld signi? ed experimental data when unconventional ? uids are expected to be transported through 30 Analyzing wireless machine pipelines. Wood Group Kenny’s Christian Chauvet explains.

condition monitoring for offshore condition monitoring for offshore 54 Global perspective on ? ow assurance applications

Flow assurance is set to play a fundamental role in solving major future industry challenges. Martin Brown discusses.

SKF’s Marty Herzog discusses whether wireless technologies are a viable strategy

GEOFOCUS for offshore operations in exploration and 58

Taming Tanzania production.

Tanzania is home to several recent gas discoveries. Sarah

Parker Musarra examines why the recent licensing round doesn’t re? ect that story. 60 Kenyan explorers look deeper offshore

Nina Rach discusses Kenya’s offshore exploration history, and analyzes the country’s future.

63 Mozambique: resource curse or opportunity?

Mozambique is thought to be the jewel in East Africa’s crown, but will its abundant gas resources pay off for the country?

Audrey Leon reports.

VESSELS 64 Tank support for the LNG revolution

A modern descendant of the ? rst shipping containment system

ON THE COVERON THE COVER could become a key technology carrying gas transport and

New frontiers. New frontiers. An onboard- trading into tomorrow. Joe Evangelista reviews its evolution.

view from the Transoceans’ view from the Transoceans’ 68 Floating LNG facilities

Discoverer Americas Discoverer Americas drillship working off the coast of working off the coast of

Vinson & Elkins’ David Lang and Paul Greening discuss

Tanzania. The photo was Tanzania. The photo was whether an FLNG facility can receive limitations of liability taken on 27 September 2013. taken on 27 September 2013. for maritime claims.

Image Credit: Paul Joynson- Image Credit: Paul Joynson- 72 Enter the specialized LNG carrier Hicks/AP/Statoil. Hicks/AP/Statoil.

Developments in the natural gas and LNG industries are triggering new specialized LNG carriers. DNV GL Lars Petter

Blikom explains.

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