Issue: July
FEATURES
As they continue to ramp up activity, Guyana and Suriname are at the hinge of the Americas' energy map.
As global energy demand accelerates, electrification has moved from a long-term ambition to an operational requirement. Bjarte Pedersen explores how ABB is utilizing electric infrastructure across the IMEA region to modernize assets and provide the essential platform for future autonomous operations.
Mature offshore fields often require subsea flowline decommissioning while adjacent infrastructure remains in production, limiting conventional methods. Using a chemically engineered gel displacement system to remove hydrocarbons from two late-life pipe-in-pipe subsea flowlines in the Norwegian North Sea, the project demonstrates a repeatable approach for late-life subsea assets.
PERMIAN BASIN TECHNOLOGY
Companies are moving away from diesel power to reduce emissions and capture efficiencies, but even greater gains can be achieved with the right matchup of power sources and pumps.
The Permian basin remains at the forefront of North America’s unconventional resource development, presenting both immense opportunities and ongoing challenges in well construction. Recent advances in drilling technologies are reshaping approaches to extended-lateral well delivery, operational efficiency and sustainable field practices.
For operators in the Permian basin, achieving the fastest and lowest risk path to production is about more than drilling speed alone. Deploying technologies that can enhance drilling performance and ensure robust well integrity can deliver your well, as planned, and protect longer term production revenue.
COLUMNS
In his latest First Oil column, editor-in-chief Kurt Abraham examines what Andy Burnham's rise to UK prime minister could mean for North Sea oil and gas, the Energy Profits Levy and the future of British energy policy.
In his latest Exploration column, Bill Head says the industry has become too reliant on AI hype and should instead reinvest in exploration expertise, advanced seismic imaging and the search for new reserves.
MANAGEMENT ISSUES
With the tenure of former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau firmly in the rearview mirror, current Prime Minister Mark Carney has been loosening up energy policy that is augmented by helpful provincial regulation. Thus, the offshore community in Newfoundland and Labrador looks forward to resurgent activity, anchored by projects like Bay du Nord.
During the final six months of his term, Texas Railroad Commission Chairman Jim Wright intends to work on a variety of priority issues, not the least of which is to reach agreements to obtain Canadian heavy crude to blend with Texas light oil.
