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Contents

DRILLING & COMPLETIONS 42 In? ow control

Reservoir engineers are getting to grips with automatic ? ow control devices, explains Benn A

Voll, Ismarullizam Mohd Ismail, and Iko Oguche.

EPIC 46 The harsh reality for materials

Wood Group Kenny’s Luis F. Gar? as outlines the challenges relating to material selection and testing for eventual use in harsh environments.

PRODUCTION

Feature Focus 50 Intervening on Pompano

Audrey Leon reports on the unique challenges

Stone Energy faced while attempting to revitalize

EOR/IOR its Pompano ? eld.

34 Understanding EOR

Elaine Maslin speaks with scientists at the

SUBSEA

University of Aberdeen to discover what 54 RWLI makes its mark more needs to be done to bene? t from EOR.

Elaine Maslin reports on the growing acceptance of riserless light well intervention for well 38 Exploring MEOR interventions.

Jerry Lee takes a look at some of the research surrounding microbial enhanced oil recovery

PIPELINES (MEOR), and how it could be a viable solution 58 In? atable support for increasing recovery efforts.

Chris Sparrow shows how using in? atable buoyancy for pipelaying operations could result in shallow-water savings.

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COMPLETIONS EPIC COMPLETIONS EPIC PIPELINES

In? ow control 42 Materials 46 Pipelay techniques 58 at the deepwater Pompano at the deepwater Pompano

Heather Saucier examines the effect of regional g ? eld in the Gulf of Mexico, ? eld in the Gulf of Mexico,

Subsea energy policies on Latin America’s rich untapped intervention • • • the company worked in the company worked in Revitalizing Pompano 50 • RWLI makes its mark 54 • collaboration with Cross collaboration with Cross resources.

EOR/IOR Innovation and the market 34 • Researching microbial EOR 38 •

Group to ? nd a solution Group to ? nd a solution that would allow access to that would allow access to the ? eld’s through-? owline the ? eld’s through-? owline 66 Big spending needs investment

April 2015 subsea system. The end result subsea system. The end result allowed ? exibility for both allowed ? exibility for both

Elaine Maslin reports from Subsea Expo on Brazil’s

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