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December 2014

GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS 24 The biggest oil & gas discoveries

With help from experts In? eld Systems and Gaffney Cline & Associates, OE compiled a list of the biggest oil and gas discoveries in the last 12 months, and of the last 10 years.

DRILLING & COMPLETIONS 28 Top achievements in drilling technology

OE spoke with experts from Halliburton, Hess and Weatherford to answer the question: “What have been the top achievements in drilling technology in the last ? ve years?” Plus OE highlights

Chevron’s activity in the deepwater arena.

EPIC 32 The biggest projects

OE asked In? eld Systems to provide insight about some of today’s biggest offshore oil and gas projects.

PRODUCTION 36 Optimizing options

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Late life production optimization is hard, but interesting, according to those tackling the issue. Elaine Maslin provides an overview of recent trends.

The List issue 38 Production trends

OE asked production optimization specialists their views on the 18 The most in? uential people latest trends in the area. Skills comes high up the list. Elaine in oil & gas

Maslin sets out the results of our survey.

Who have been the movers and shakers in the

SUBSEA oil and gas industry in 2014? OE searched the global offshore oil and gas industry to select 40 The future of subsea technology the VIPs in our 14 in 2014 list.

OE spoke with experts from Aker Solutions, GE Oil & Gas, and

FMC Technologies to determine what subsea technologies will be key for the industry in 10 years’ time.

44 Exciting technologies

Claudio Paschoa compares two compact ROV-operated systems

Coming next month for seabed geotechnical drilling. Sudheer Chand discusses applying offshore class experience to subsea mining, and Jose celebrates its ruby

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Vicente Solano Ferrandez examines Repsol & Indra’s new project.

anniversary in January.

As OE gears up for the big

PIPELINES 4-0, the magazine will 46 Off the deep end look toward the future of 404040404040

GlobalData analyst Gregory Bosunga takes a look at the ten most the offshore industry by challenging pipelay jobs around the world. Plus OE asked leaders taking a trip back to the past. Keep an eye out for from the ? eld to share what they see as the most challenging our annual Global Offshore Market Forecast, plus aspects of deepwater pipelay. a behind-the-scenes look back at the history of how Offshore Engineer came to be.

VESSELS 52 Going deep and getting heavy

The global ? eets are growing – not least in order to cater for new deep water challenges. Fred Tholen provides an overview. 54 Charting Norwegian shipbuilding

Alan Thorpe recently visited Norway to see the latest offshore

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Deep thoughts. Deep thoughts. This month our 58 Addressing the changing needs of the offshore

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Bourbon’s Rodolphe Bouchet explains how the company’s new ideas, technologies, segments ideas, technologies, segments

Explorer 500 series shows its commitment to standardization, and geographic regions that and geographic regions that • • • are top of mind for oil and gas are top of mind for oil and gas which offers time and cost savings.

personnel each day. As OE personnel each day. As OE

FUTURE FIELDS enters its fourth decade, what enters its fourth decade, what technologies, and market technologies, and market 50 The next frontier

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