Most hydrogen today is made from natural gas by steam methane reforming (SMR), long used in refineries for hydrotreating and […]
A marginal field is one whose development is close to the economic limit: small reserves, low productivity, remote location, or […]
Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) captures CO2 from large sources, compresses it and stores it in deep formations or […]
A smart (intelligent) well combines downhole monitoring with downhole flow control, so that the operator can see what each zone […]
A gathering network carries production from wellheads to the processing facility through flowlines, manifolds, trunk lines, separators and compressors. Every […]
Offshore decommissioning removes or makes safe the wells, topsides, jackets, pipelines and debris of a field at the end of […]
Gas hydrates are ice-like solids in which water cages trap small gas molecules such as methane, ethane, propane, CO2 and […]
Subsea inspection checks that seabed infrastructure remains in the condition assumed by its design: that corrosion, fatigue, marine growth, free […]
A drilling contract allocates three things between the operator and the drilling contractor: payment, risk and control. The usual contract […]
Offshore installation engineering plans how pipelines, risers, manifolds, templates and platforms are placed at sea. Every operation depends on weather […]
