Successful Exploration and Development of Significant Oil Fields in the Deep-Water Gulf of Mexico

2003 ◽  
pp. 155-157
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Oil Fields ◽  
Exploration And Development

Riser Analysis of a New Dry Completion Concept for a Monocolumn Platform

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Jorge Mendes de Sousa ◽  
Marcos Queija de Siqueira ◽  
Claudio Marcio Silva Dantas ◽  
Lui´s Volnei Sudati Sagrilo ◽  
Isai´as Quaresma Masetti
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Oil Fields ◽  
Production Unit ◽  
Floating Body ◽  
Campos Basin ◽  
To Receive

In recent years, PETROBRAS has developed the concept of a monocolumn platform to be used as a floating production unit in deep and ultra-deep water oil fields. This platform, referred as MonoBR, is characterized by low heave and pitch induced motions, even in hurricane conditions, allowing its use as an alternative for locations such as Campos Basin and the Pre-Salt Area in Brazil, and also for the Gulf of Mexico. Despite their low vertical motions, this platform is not generally regarded as a dry completion unit. However, PETROBRAS and two public institutions in Brazil, UFRJ/COPPE and USP/POLI, have studied and designed an innovative mechanism to be installed in MonoBR, called Inverted Cup, which is a sliding floating body installed inside the MonoBR moonpool. In such way, the platform transmits only horizontal motions and rotations to the Inverted Cup; the heave responses of both bodies are decoupled. The Inverted Cup is then designed and dimensioned to receive dry completion X-mas trees and risers. The aim of this paper is to present the results of the riser analysis performed under this new concept — Inverted Cup system — to allow dry completion in the MonoBR. The environmental conditions refer to fields in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Tupi Field (Pre-Salt). The results point to a technically feasible mechanism to allow dry completion, according to adopted criteria.

scholarly journals Impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on a deep-water coral community in the Gulf of Mexico

2012 ◽  
Vol 109 (50) ◽  
pp. 20303-20308 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. K. White ◽  
P.-Y. Hsing ◽  
W. Cho ◽  
T. M. Shank ◽  
E. E. Cordes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Deepwater Horizon ◽  
Coral Community ◽  
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill ◽  
Water Coral

Modeling Dynamic Shock Loads for High-Pressure/Deep-Water Tubing-Conveyed Perforating Operations in the Gulf of Mexico

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rick L. Giunta ◽  
Cam Van Le ◽  
Martin F. Schoener-Scott ◽  
Ryan Neal Anderson ◽  
Joshua Monroe Glass
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Shock Loads

Study on the Characteristics of Well Completion Technology in Deepwater Oil and Gas Field Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 70-72
Author(s):  
Jianbo Hu ◽  
◽  
Yifeng Di ◽  
Qisheng Tang ◽  
Ren Wen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Deep Water ◽  
Deep Sea ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Gas Field ◽  
Marine Research ◽  
Field Development ◽  
Research Technology ◽  
Well Completion ◽  
Development Capacity ◽  
Exploration And Development

In recent years, China has made certain achievements in shallow sea petroleum geological exploration and development, but the exploration of deep water areas is still in the initial stage, and the water depth in the South China Sea is generally 500 to 2000 meters, which is a deep water operation area. Although China has made some progress in the field of deep-water development of petroleum technology research, but compared with the international advanced countries in marine science and technology, there is a large gap, in the international competition is at a disadvantage, marine research technology and equipment is relatively backward, deep-sea resources exploration and development capacity is insufficient, high-end technology to foreign dependence. In order to better develop China's deep-sea oil and gas resources, it is necessary to strengthen the development of drilling and completion technology in the oil industry drilling engineering. This paper briefly describes the research overview, technical difficulties, design principles and main contents of the completion technology in deepwater drilling and completion engineering. It is expected to have some significance for the development of deepwater oil and gas fields in China.

Deep Water Pipeline Repair In The Gulf Of Mexico

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lance Brown ◽  
Adrian Dayani ◽  
Shaun Lazenby ◽  
Jackson Miller
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Water Pipeline
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