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A Century Getting Ready -- Oily Beginnings -- Free At Last -- Other Humble Beginnings -- Superior Approaches -- Honing Tools of the Trade -- Divers and ROVs -- Lift Power -- Permanence -- The Learning Curve Bends Over -- Letting Go of the Past -- The Confusion of the Eighties -- Exploring the Deepwater -- Identifying the Prospect -- Drilling a Wildcat -- Deepwater Plays in Context -- Geology; the Shelf vs. the Deepwater -- Drilling and Completing Wells -- Rig Selection -- Development Systems -- Development System Choices -- Floating Systems -- Fixed Structures -- The Conventional Platform -- The Concrete Platform-- The Compliant Tower -- From Here to There -- Installing Conventional Platforms or CTs -- Setting the Dec-- Monocolumn TLP -- FPSO -- FDPSO -- FSO -- FPS -- Mooring Spreads -- Subsea Systems -- Flowlines, Jumpers, and Gathering Lines -- Umbilicals and Flying Leads -- Control System -- Flow Assurance -- System Architecture and Installation -- System Reliability -- ROVs -- Topsides-- Auxiliary Systems -- Pipelines, Flowlines, and Risers -- The Boon and Bane of Buoyancy -- Reel Barge -- Technology and the Third Wave. "Deepwater Petroleum Exploration & Production: A Nontechnical Guide is the most comprehensive and authoritative text available on the business, engineering, and technology of this multi-billion dollar industry. Readers will find extensive coverage of all aspects of deepwater operations - including historic background and an outlook to future deepwater operations. The authors compare and contrast offshore operations to the shelf and onshore operations throughout the text."--Jacket. |
