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GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS 34 Modeling deeper waters

OE spoke with Schlumberger’s Alexander Neber to discuss how software can solve reservoir engineering and other deepwater exploration challenges.

DRILLING & COMPLETIONS 36 Seeing double in the deep

Elaine Maslin takes a look at Fincantieri’s latest ultra- deepwater drillship design – Proxima.

EPIC 38 Creating a severe-weather riser system

Jeannie Stell reports on how BP is working with Wood

Group Kenny to design and manufacture an FPSO riser

Feature Focus suitable for “dark and stormy” weather.

PRODUCTION

Offshore 42 Fit for HPHT renewables

Exova Group’s Stuart Bond details how the company is working with the offshore sector to develop testing 26 Uncharted waters technologies to make sure SURF components are ? t for A milestone is about to be reached in the tidal energy industry off the cold harsh coast

HPHT and H S service.

2 of Scotland. Elaine Maslin spoke with the project director behind the MeyGen tidal

SUBSEA array development.

46 Pushing limits on the line 30 Realizing potential

John Bradbury reports on new equipment designs for

Tidal and wave energy projects are getting risers and umblicals from DeepFlex and Technip. grid-wet this year, yet there’s still more to learn. Emma Gordon reports from All Energy.

PIPELINES 32 Picking up wind

Douglas Westwood’s Rachel Stonehouse 48 Going with the (model) ? ow discusses the offshore wind market, where

Modeling ? ow assurance regimes is no easy task, not approximately US$330 billion could be least for long distance tiebacks, where the need for spent in capex over the next 10 years, with cumulative capacity surpassing 57GW. accurate modeling is crucial. Alexander Belkin outlines a model he has worked on.

GEOGRAPHICAL FOCUS: ARCTIC 50 Sea of uncertainty

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