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Offshore World is an all-encompassing magazine for the hydrocarbon and allied industries. A quarterly magazine launched in December 2003, Offshore World disseminates authentic, critical and well-researched information on global hydrocarbon industry innovations.

The magazine offers latest and strategic information on the upstream and downstream hydrocarbon industry. The endeavour of Offshore World is to become a vehicle in making "Hydrocarbon Vision 2025" a reality in terms of technologies, markets and new directions, and to stand as a medium of reflection of the achievements and aspirations of Indian hydrocarbon industry.

The magazine extensively covers technological advances, reviews & forecasts, new products, processes & solutions, upcoming projects, market trends, R&D, events, products review, book review, industry surveys, environment management, news & views, interviews, awards, outstanding performance by individuals & organizations, case studies and practice oriented and well researched articles and features by industry experts.

February - March 2012 Issue

INTERVIEW

Integrated Subsea Automation Solutions

Safety control capability is a primary area where Rockwell Automation adds tremendous value and credibility to the industry. The company has distinguished itself from the rest by having capabilities to meet all safety SIL levels of control for the industry. Around the world, the company is committed to putting their customers’ needs first. Robert Ninker, Regional Director, Solutions Business, Rockwell Automation Asia Pacific, talks about all this, and more, in an exclusive interview with Sneha Sinha...
- Robert Ninker, Regional Director, Solutions Business, Rockwell Automation Asia Pacific

FEATURES

Deciding Between an Onshore or Floating LNG Import Terminal

The importation of LNG has traditionally been via onshore terminals located at the coast with deep water access. To date, 77 onshore terminals are in operation and a further 18 under construction. However in the last six years, 10 Floating Storage and Regasification Units (FSRUs) have been installed and seven more are under construction or sanctioned...
- Huw Williams, Jiben Bhattacharyya, Brian Songhurst

SEEPFINDER & GRAVEX – New Airborne Systems in the Technology Tool Box

After the Second World War, as the oil industry took stock of its position, logic suggested that as 3/4 of the earth's surface was water, then a lot of oil must be underwater. Offshore oil exploration and production was needed...
- Timothy R Bodger

Performance Enhancements in Suspension Characteristics of Borate Crosslinkers

Borate crosslinked gel systems have been extensively used in the petroleum industry for Fracturing and FracPac applications. Typically, borate minerals are sparingly soluble in water or in hydrocarbons like diesel. For operational feasibility, the borate based crosslinkers are introduced as a suspension in an aqueous or hydrocarbon based carrier fluid...
- Rajendra Kalgaonkar, Prajakta Patil, Jajati Nanda, Nisha Pandya

Repairing Subsea Pipelines Without Welding

Many of the world’s oil pipelines and platforms are approaching the end of their designed life. Repairs are likely to take up an increasing percentage of maintenance budgets in the near future. But how best to make those repairs? Here we put the case for mechanical connectors rather than welds. Many of the world’s oil pipelines and platforms, from Europe’s North Sea to India’s ‘Mumbai High’ field in the Gulf of Khambhat, were brought into service in the 1970s and are now approaching - and in some cases have already gone beyond - their intended life...
- Paul Hughes

Technical, Commercial and Operational Challenges of Subsea Architecture

The energy consumption in the last twenty years has grown significantly and it has been predicted that it will continue to grow exponentially. Increase in population and the purchasing power of individuals is leading to diversified usage of energy, which contributes to the high-energy consumption year on year. Research has proved that the energy demands for next ten to twenty years will be fulfilled by oil and natural gas...
- Santosh Kulkarni

An Attractive Technology for Improving Drilling Performance

The demand for energy resources is pushing the oil industry to more challenging environments such as HPHT, Deep Water, and Narrow Pressure Window environments. These challenging environments leave no other options to the Industry but to look for more technologies to improve safety and the engineering efficiency. Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) has become a very attractive technology, offering a considerable amount of tangible benefits to improve the drilling performance and increase safety in offshore drilling projects...
- German Marin

Outokumpu Specialty Steels - The Answer to Harsh Environments

As a global stainless steel supplier and leader in specialty stainless steels, Outokumpu has over the decades acquired unique expertise across the oil & gas extraction chain. This expertise is offered to India’s oil & gas sector as it picks up momentum. The oil & gas industry must weather tough conditions. This is not so much due to oil itself, which is not corrosive, but rather due to the highly corrosive environments involved in its production...
- Yatinder Suri

The Continuing Development of Nickel Based Alloys in Offshore Applications

The 'easy to extract' era of Oil and Gas extraction is long gone and with it the continuing use of low-cost materials of construction. Whilst many of the sweet reservoirs are being depleted, lower grade steels of one variety or another are continuing to be specified as conservative engineering practices persist. We have entered a new era of deep, hot and sour gas reservoirs which has created an increasing demand for high alloy materials like Inconel® 625 and others.
- Neville Thomas

India Offers Favourable Investment Climate for Upstream Sector

The Indian oil and gas sector is one of the core industries of the country with significant forward linkage with the economy. It has been instrumental in fuelling the growth of economy and committed to accelerate the momentum which nation wants to achieve...
- Neetu Vinayek

Supporting Oil Exploration - Need of the Hour

The price of crude oil is set on a world marketplace where supply and demand are in precarious balance. The modern world today relies on a vast energy supply to fuel everything from transportation to communication, to security and health delivery systems...
- Debojyoti Dey, Niteen Jain, Nazir Ahmed Moulvi

A Frontrunner in Professional Recruitment Solutions

Mammen Varghese, Chairman - Jerry Varghese Group of Companies, believes that people are the most important asset of an organisation. According to him, an ideal recruiter for the energy industry is an engineer with a right level of experience in both the recruitment as well as upstream business, but this combination is not easy to acquire, and herein lies the challenge in the recruitment profession...
- Mammen Varghese