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Contents

GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS 30 What lies beneath

Dan McConnell explores the geotechnical knowns and unknowns in the Gulf of Mexico.

DRILLING & COMPLETIONS 34 RED gets ready

Resonance enhanced drilling (RED) could help speed up drilling time and ef? ciency. Elaine Maslin reports.

EPIC 38 Getting to grips with grout

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Grout is taking on new forms to meet the needs of offshore wind applications. Jim Bell explains.

Intelligent Oil? eld 40 24

Sea? oor tools When automation, not if

Susan Gourvenec provides a toolbox approach for

Automation on the drill? oor has been slow optimizing geotechnical design of subsea foundations.

to take off – but it is coming as advances in enabling technologies are made. Elaine

Maslin looks at work ongoing in the ? eld.

PRODUCTION 44 AIM for life – and beyond 26 Learning lessons learned

Floating production systems are on the hard edge of

Is the oil industry good at lessons learned, asset integrity management, Jonathan Boutrot, Offshore but not at learning lessons? – Jan-Erik

Development Manager, Bureau Veritas, explains.

Nordtvedt, SPE Intelligent Energy program committee chair 2014 and President and CEO of Epsis, poses the question.

SUBSEA 48 Leap of faith 28 Transforming the future of oil

Will subsea tech join fracking slowdown? There may be too

Repsol’s Director for Exploration and much momentum. Bruce Nichols reports.

Production Technology Santiago Quesada discusses the company’s partnership with IBM aimed at developing cognitive

PIPELINES technologies for better decision-making.

52 Going with the ? ow

Flow measurement isn’t always foremost in industry debates, but the role it plays – and getting it right – is key.

Elaine Maslin found out more.

Required reading for the Global Oil & Gas Industry since 1975

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Intelligent major success given the current major success given the current the exploration environment for Australian and New

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Zealand projects as well as the potential impact from the computing technology 28

March 2015 RED gets ready 34 •

Mackenzie recently valued the Mackenzie recently valued the recent fall in oil prices.

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