On this month's cover: Bisso Marine provides diving, heavy lift, offshore construction and salvage services, and aims to supply its customers with unparalleled safety, quality, efficiency and productivity. The front cover shows Bisso Marine pipelay barges L/B Mighty Chief (foreground) and DLB Big Chief performing a subsea drilling, pipelay and bury operation off the Louisiana coast.
Guest Comment
Guest Comment
World News
World News
What Goes Up Must Come Down?
Gordon Cope, Oilfield Technology Correspondent, focuses on the USA, Canada and Mexico in an upstream overview
The Economy of Deepwater
Julian Callanan and Dr Roger Knight, Infield Systems Ltd, UK, discuss the growth of the global deepwater industry
Current Management
Grant Jennings, Teledyne RD Instruments, USA, and Garry Mardell, Fugro Geos, UK, explain how understanding the ocean environment can assist seismic survey operations
Cutting Costs Down Deep
Greg Myers, IODP-MI, USA, discusses clean, low cost drilling techniques coming to ultra deepwater
Pump It Up
Ben Gould, Baker Hughes, USA, looks at ESP system advancements for offshore and subsea environments
A Short Term Solution
Leen Poldervaart and Jim Wodehouse, SBM Offshore, Monaco, discuss the development of a versatile reservoir unit
Floatover Technology
Michel Seij and Maris Paap, Dockwise, The Netherlands, discuss floatover deck installation technology
Hurricane Effects
John Murray, FloaTEC, LLC, USA, discusses the sensitivity of deepwater floating facilities to new Gulf of Mexico metocean criteria
Securing A Base
Greg Donnelly, Subsea 7, North America, describes the stages involved in constructing a new spoolbase to serve the region
Creating the Economics for Completion
Rodrigo Farias, BJ Services, Brazil, Bernard Franklin and Dan Daulton, BJ Services, USA, explain how single-trip completions enable new wells that would be uneconomic otherwise
Fielding Extremes
Paul Radzinski, Weatherford, USA, discusses new methods of supplying data from previously undrillable resources
Tapping the Unconventional Reservoir
Frode Hveding and Chaled Al-Dammad, Sperry Drilling Services, USA, discuss the benefits of real time resistivity borehole images
Logging While Drilling
Jonathan Lee, GE Energy, USA, discusses how to choose the right logging while drilling resistivity tool for the right application
Enhancing Field Exploitation
Mitch Kniffin, APEX HiPoint, LLC, USA, discusses borehole seismic monitoring of a Fayetteville Shale fracture stimulation
A Solid Approach
Richard A. Schmidt, The GasGun, Inc., USA, discusses the advantages of fracturing with solid propellants over traditional stimulation methods
Insight at Your Fingertips
Aldo Rodriguez, CapRock Communications, USA, discusses how satellite communications enable efficient remote asset utilisation
The Role of Satcoms
Casper Jensen, Thrane & Thrane, Denmark, discusses the application of satcoms in the modern oilfield