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Volume 40, Number 9 September 2015

SUBSEA 70 Life extension or decommissioning?

Understanding your asset is vital before making the big decision. Clarus Subsea’s

Vinayak Patil and John MacDonald explain the

REGION key challenges of subsea integrity management

DUTCH OFFSHORE in the Gulf of Mexico.

Sharing 74 Robotic intervention the load

Offshore workers could soon ? nd themselves sharing their facilities with robots, particularly in remote, harsh or hazardous environments. Elaine Maslin looks at the

Argos Challenge.

76 Overcoming obsolescence

There is a big risk circling mature production installations where hardware that was

Photo from Dockwise.

once state of the art now poses a problem for managers on late-life assets; that risk is

OE Region: Dutch Offshore obsolescence. John Bradbury reports.

Leveraging strength. The cover of OE’s special report on the Dutch offshore sector features

PIPELINES the Dockwise Vanguard carrying its ? rst ever ship-shaped FPSO cargo, the Armada Intrepid – 78 Designs for the future one of the largest cargoes ever transported. The

Jeannie Stell speaks with classi? cation

Dockwise Vanguard successfully delivered the organizations ABS and DNV GL to discuss

FPSO to Batam, Indonesia, on 8 July 2015, just two months after it set sail from Rotterdam’s today’s trends in new pipelay vessels.

Caland Canal. OE Regions: Dutch Offshore begins after page 94.

GEOGRAPHICAL FOCUS: NORTHWEST EUROPE 82 Challenging times

Europe is facing a tough downturn, but it will not last forever. Rystad’s Audun Martinsen takes a look.

84 Current North Sea major projects

With help from In? eld Systems, OE charts the current, ongoing major projects in the market place in Northwest Europe, covering the UK

Continental Shelf, offshore Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands.

86 Adding EOR to Quad 204

BP has been making strides in LowSal enhanced oil recovery techniques and Bright

Water. It now has its sights set on polymerized water for its Quad 204 development. Elaine

Maslin reports.

88 Busy work

Introducing a new FPSO into a brown? eld while overhauling the subsea infrastructure led to a complex multi-year SIMOPS

JUST PLUG IT IN!

campaign for Technip. Elaine Maslin sets out the details.

Advantageous approach to the construction of living quarters. 90 Focusing on ef? ciency

Piikkio Works is the world’s leading manufacturer of prefabricated modular

High oil prices in a mature basin led to a cabins. Over the past 30 years the company has delivered more than 130 000 tight market and cost escalation. With low oil cabins and bathrooms for marine and offshore applications.

prices, the industry is working hard to rein in spending. Elaine Maslin speaks with Oil & www.piikkioworks.f

Gas UK CEO Deirdre Michie on some of the initiatives underway.

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