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Angola set to ramp up offshore developments, EIA says

Angola is set for significant expansion of offshore oil and gas developments in the short- and medium-term, according to a recent country briefing by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

DOT announces award-winning papers

Awards for the best papers at DOT Houston were made on Thursday, Feb. 4, at the closing of the conference and exhibition.

DOT 2010: MEG conditioning speeds up Frade pipeline check

Acergy/Halliburton adopted a novel approach for pre-commissioning of the 42.6-km (26.5-mi) Frade flexible pipeline offshore Brazil, according to a presentation at DOT International by Sean Barr, Victor Birch and Jean-Francois Saint-Marcoux of Acergy.

DOT 2010: Benchmarking aids deepwater field design, production efficiency

The offshore industry would benefit from a consistent periodic approach to performance benchmarking for deepwater facilities, according to Thomas Gray of consultants Ziff Energy.

DOT 2010: Advances in internal weld scanning services

A new service addresses the stringent requirements of weld root profiles in offshore projects, according to a presentation at the Deep Offshore Technology conference.
In a paper on internal weld scanning, specialists from Optical Metrology Services, Dr. Tim Clarke and Dr. Richard Gooch, described how the new tool is applied in different settings.

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The ongoing push for more producible oil and gas reservoirs is leading the industry into greater offshore depths and harsher environments. Traditional design approaches to developing equipment and systems for shallower offshore wells often don’t work effectively in these deeper, harsher environments. How can petroleum and marine mechanical engineers move outside their traditional realm of experience to develop new designs that will improve drilling performance in these new challenging environments?

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