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DEALING WITH THE DOWNTURN The party is over - who pays the bill? - Drilling contractors and operators are squabbling as market contraction continues; 90% of survival is a good contract.
Turnkey option in low-cost environment - Turnkey drilling offers an array of options as cost savings and experience become the drivers in a low-cost environment.
Fabrication yards switch to survival tactics - Moving workers around, smaller jobs, buying competitors among tactics used by fabrication yards as business dwindles.
FRONTIER EXPLORATION Is frontier oil and gas exploration dead? - Operator budgets are leaving little left for frontier exploration and drilling, but a small number of areas are targeted.
DRILLING TECHNOLOGY High quality electronics for HP-HT - Tougher high pressure and temperature conditions are forcing industry to search for better electronics to cope.
Drilling an extreme horizontal section - Drilling fluid design, other parameters are critical in a Kingfisher well, the North Sea's most extreme horizontal section.
Tubular design for 28,000-ft US Gulf well - US Gulf of Mexico record well requires critical management of downhole string load, annular mechanics, and hydraulics.
How dual activity drillfloor will operate - Integrating the Transocean Enterprise's drillpipe, tool, and drilling fluid handling and work systems for dual stations.
PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY Going where coiled tubing can't go - Robotic system heads down the wellbore, identifies damaged pipe section, cuts it out, and brings it back to the surface.
Retrievable wellhead plugs improved - Improvements to slickline-retrievable wellhead plugs have expanded their use to a cost-efficient permanent barrier.
Optimizing sand-free production rate - Calibrating flows with non-intrusive devices allows producers to boost well production to maximum sand-free rates.
Two types of pipeline electric heating - Deepstar joint industry project examining earth ground and full insulation types of direct electric heating of pipelines.
Flexsteel piping for deepwater umbilicals - Petrobras, Oceaneering develop high collapse-resistant flexible piping for thermoplastic control umbilicals.
Overcoming problems with plasticized liners - Unplasticized copolymer solution less vulnerable to hydrocarbons as inner liner for high temperature flexible lines.
DEEPWATER Predicting riser-to-riser interaction - Proper design of floater production risers calls for an integrated approach to production flow and mechanical issues.
Rigs upgraded with suction anchoring - Suction anchoring takes 4th generation drilling unit past 5,000 ft water depth; Shell among first to successfully deploy system.
GEOTECHNOLOGY PART II: Industry evaluating hydrates - Industry is examining the difficulty and cost of pursuing seabed methane hydrates, the gas resource for the next century.
GEOSCIENCES Global collaboration becoming a reality - Statoil is making global collaboration a (virtual) reality as high-speed links carry reservoir, drilling, and geological data.
Factors influencing Geco hgle design - Technology and market changes drove the design of a seismic vessel; Geco-Prakla's president comments on influences.
Efficiencies in handling large data sets - "Thin-client" networks and Java technology preside as software and hardware efficiencies handling large data sets.