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GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS 32

Shell’s 4D optimizes Brazil water? ood project

Shell’s second water? ood monitor survey offshore Brazil shows technical success. Jeannie Stell reports.

DRILLING & COMPLETIONS 36 Integrating MPD into existing rig systems

Revamping older offshore rigs with modern technology positions them for more ef? cient and safer drilling to target depth. Weatherford’s James Onifade and Turkish Petroleum

Oil? eld Services’ Yilmaz Kum and Benhur Sahin explain.

EPIC 38 Designing for tight spaces

Designing a tightly packed, complex turret system is one thing. Designing so it can be built and then maintained

Feature without causing hiccups is another. Carlo Pellegrino of

Italy’s RINA Services sets out the details.

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SUBSEA intervention 42 Innovation – in all its forms

Standardization has been high on the agenda at the 24 Challenges and opportunities:

Underwater Technology Conference (UTC) in Bergen for Deepwater Intervention the past two years. Elaine Maslin reports on innovations

In advance of 2015 Deepwater Intervention discussed and on show.

Forum held in Galveston, Texas, Audrey 44 Boosting in the deep

Leon discusses the intervention market in

The rewards on offer from subsea boosting technology were the wake of the downturn, and speaks with spelled out at the MCE Deepwater Development Conference several of the forum’s board members ahead of the show on 11-13 August.

in London this spring by Arne B. Olsen, sales director, pumps and subsea processing at OneSubsea. Meg Chesshyre reports.

30 Finding an alternative

Already deployed off Brazil and West Africa,

PIPELINES

Jerry Lee investigates a new way to intervene 46 Corrosion fatigue behavior on wells — from the drill pipe.

of high-strength steel wire

Applying materials and corrosion science to the study of corrosion fatigue in high-strength steel wire aids ? exible riser performance understanding. Intertek’s Peter Barnes explains.

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GEOGRAPHICAL FOCUS: SOUTHEAST ASIA

August 2015 oedi ital.com Deepwater Intervention Southeast Asia Subsea Technologies Vol. 40 No. 8

Rig technology 36 4D in Brazil 32 Text heree 00 Text heree 00 Text heree 00 Innovations 42

GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS DRILLING SUBSEA DRILLING GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS BUCKET 1 BUCKET 2 BUCKET 3 50 Southeast Asia in focus g

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Intervention 24

Despite the downturn, plenty of development is underway

ON THE COVERON THE COVER Challenges and opportunities • 30 New techniques • in Southeast Asia. Audrey Raj sets out the detail.

Blue skies ahead. Blue skies ahead. This • • • month’s cover features month’s cover features the 54 Boundary disputes: South China Sea

Q5000 from Helix Energy Q5000 from Helix Energy

Offshore assets in the South China Sea are ripe for further

Solutions. The DP3 well Solutions. The DP3 well

August 2015

June 2014 intervention vessel will intervention vessel will development, but territorial challenges are common. Jeannie arrive in Galveston, Texas,

Stell reports on the conditions affecting Vietnam.

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