Table of Contents
World Overview
1.1 Deep water: a long way to go
Tom Nicholls, editor, Petroleum Economist
Principal Provinces
2.1 Brazil: Petrobras makes geological breakthrough
Tom Nicholls, editor, Petroleum Economist
2.2 UK Continental Shelf: The challenge and the prize
Dave Blackwood, director and business unit leader, BP Exploration Operating Company
2.3 West Africa: Living up to the promise
Martin Quinlan, Petroleum Economist
2.4 US Gulf of Mexico: The economic value of research
Thomas Readinger, associate director, US Minerals Management Service
2.5 Norway: Ormen Lange – a major new gas source for Europe
Vegar Stokset, Hydro
Emerging provinces
3.1 Mauritania: The pace of activity accelerates
Mike Fischer, exploration manager, west Africa, Woodside Energy
3.2 Deep-water promise
Will Rowley, director of analytical services, Infield Systems
3.3 Trinidad and Tobago: Committed to local involvement
David Renwick, Petroleum Economist
Technology
4.1 Rising to the riser challenge
Tom Nicholls, editor, Petroleum Economist
4.2 Seismic processing evolves
Peter Bernard, president, Landmark Graphics
4.3 Innovative separation swirl tubes
Gert Konijn and Hans Nooijen, Shell Global Solutions, Ron Gilmour, Shell UK Exploration and Production, and Daniel Egger, Sulzer Chemtech
4.4 Challenges for FPSO contractors
Michael Wyllie, chief engineer, Single Buoy Moorings
4.5 Formation-evaluation technologies
Scott Bittner and John Cadenhead, Schlumberger
4.6 Value from FPS redeployment
Richard Selwa, chief executive officer, Vienco
4.7 Cost effectiveness of offshore pipelines benchmarked
René Klerian Ramírez, associate analyst, IPA
4.8 An offshore LNG solution
Dajiu Jiang, Ge Wang, Bret Montaruli and Kenneth Richardson, American Bureau of Shipping
Decommissioning
5.1 The effect on asset ownership
Eric Faulds, director, Eric Faulds Associates
Fiscal Regimes
6.1 North Sea – the challenge ahead
David Barrowman, vice-president, energy consulting, Wood Mackenzie
6.2 Private equity spurs a new lease of life for mature areas
Kenneth McKellar, managing director, petroleum services, Deloitte & Touche LLP, London
7.1 Offshore Milestones – Deeper and deeper
