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Volume 40, Number 12 December 2015

Departments Columns &

What do you think will be the biggest breakthroughs next 1-2 years?

8 Voices

Our sampling of leaders offers guidance.

10 Undercurrents

OE refects on the year that was 2015.

12 ThoughtStream

Tore Halvorsen, senior vice president of subsea technologies, FMC Tech- nologies, discusses driving cost down on a sustainable basis 14 Global Briefs

News from the around the world, including discoveries, feld starts, and contracts.

18 Field of View: Taming Culzean

Mastering HPHT reservoirs has been a UK North Sea challenge for more than a decade. Elaine Maslin reports on how Maersk Oil is taking lessons learned by others and applying them to the Culzean feld.

58 Automation

Gregory Hale discusses how operators can get more out of their current assets, and add more to the bottom line.

60 Solutions

An overview of offshore products and services.

61 Activity

Company updates from around the industry.

62 Spotlight: David Lamont

We’re in tough times, but that also means there’s an opportunity to seek new solutions, according to Proserv’s David Lamont. Elaine Maslin went to hear the CEO’s views.

64 Editorial Index 65 Advertiser Index 66 Asset of the Month: Bells and whistles

Odfjell Drilling’s Deepsea Aberdeen has all the bells and whistles for working west of Shetland. Elaine Maslin takes a look.

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