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Contents

GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS 34 Supporting seismic in the Gulf of Mexico

Vincent Vieugue addresses the issue of information gaps when evaluating the probability of success and estimating reserves in prospective ? elds.

38 Barents Sea FTG 3% 3% 3% 3% 3% 3% 3% 3% 3%

Dr. Stephen Rippington, Dr. Neil Dyer, and Chris Anderson 9% explain how Full Tensor Gravity Gradiometry (FTG) is 100 101 aiding prospect evaluation in the Barents Sea. 98 10% 10% 80

DRILLING & COMPLETIONS 40% 40% 80 76 42 Benchmarking reliability

The capability to benchmark the reliability of safety- 60 11% 59 critical well barrier components against a global component test database will enable oil and gas operators 49 4040404040 usd/bblusd/bblusd/bbl to optimize asset performance, Ged Lunt says.

35 31 24% 44 Taking well control training to new levels 202020

Steve Redgrave, Director of Aberdeen Drilling School, discusses new recommendations for well control training

Feature Focus 0 practices in the wake of Deepwater Horizon.

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Global OffshoreGlobal OffshoreGlobal OffshoreGlobal OffshoreGlobal OffshoreGlobal OffshoreGlobal Offshore 46 Restarting Rhum

Elaine Maslin reports on the task of restarting the North Sea

Market Forecast

Rhum ? eld by BP Engineers in 2014.

28 The ? oating production outlook 50 Unlocking marginal ? elds for 2015

Ben Smith and Ed Randall look at the options and challenges of

In? eld Systems’s Catarina Podevyn provides ? nding economically viable ways to develop marginal ? elds, in analysis on ? oating production projects around the UK North Sea and further a? eld.

the globe and the impact they will have on individual regions this coming year.

54 Great expectations

Meg Chesshyre learned more about engineering software at 30 Subsea infrastructure – the Bentley Systems’ Year in Infrastructure 2014 conference in growing and moving deeper

London.

Subsea hardware spending in 2014-18 is forecast to nearly double the size of installed

PRODUCTION subsea infrastructure, according to Douglas 58 40 years rigless: where are we now?

Westwood’s latest estimates. Matt Loffman sets

Fernando Hernandez demonstrates the evolution of vessels, out the detail.

equipment, and methods to meet contemporary demands of

RLWI.

32 Different risk pro? les among deepwater projects

SUBSEA

GlobalData’s Adrian Lara sheds light on 62 Call for more developed ROV classi? cation system the kinds of deepwater projects expected to

As ROVs are given tasks in more and more challenging advance while the price of oil continues to fall.

environments, there has been a call for the industry to develop a classi? cation system. Meg Chesshyre reports.

PIPELINES 64 Reel-lay gets real attention

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