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NEWS: Regional

NEWS: International

New Abu Dhabi concessions could be reservoir-specific

Maersk gets 40% of Repsols Kurdistan block

Companies vying for a share of Abu Dhabis energy concessions could be working according to reservoir-specific terms

Maersk Oil gets approval for a non-operating interest in two blocks in Kurdistan Region of Iraq

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Petrofac wins consultancy work from PetronasPetrofac-RNZ has been awarded a five-year engineering services contract in Malaysia

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Total has acquired a 40 per cent interest in two shale gas exploration licenses in the UK

16Total is the first energy major to frack in UK

FEATURES: FEATURES:

The energy industry may never see an oil and gas boom such as that in East Africa with its promise of handsome returns

20WHO DARES, WINS

Education and Training 24

DrillingClaxton talks about the innovative solution it provided for a drilling schedule change in Oman

Process Automation

Power Generation

Honeywell provides a case study of a process migration project it successfully completed for Dolphin Energy

Eaton reveals the tailored solutions needed at each stage of the oil and gas value chain to meet power management challenges

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BP talk exclusively about what the British oil giant is doing to attract the right people in the region. Lukoil also explains how they created a world class training centre in Iraq

A new industry taking shape around natural gasPipeline Magazine speaks exclusively to Emerson Process Managements vice president of oil and gas, Larry Irving, about why he thinks that a new industry will take shape in the region around natural gas

The latest news on the 11th Oil Barons Charity Ball taking place on 28th February 2014

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW:

THE OIL BARONS CHARITY BALL:

GEO FOCUS: EAST AFRICA

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REGIONAL NEWSMAP

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[MOROCCO]

Longreach finds gas shows Longreach Oil & Gas has found gas shows with its first exploration well, Koba-1, in the Sidi Moktar licence onshore Morocco. In a statement, Longreach said that the well had been drilled to a Total Depth (TD) of 3,100 meters and that it had encountered potential Lower Liassic sandstone reservoir with gas shows of over 10 per cent. Dennis Sharp, executive chairman, commented: This is a positive start to our operated exploration campaign in the Essaouira Basin, onshore Morocco, which is most encouraging. We are evaluating all of the available data in order to determine the testing program for the well. We look forward to gaining a fuller understanding of the result of the Koba well. The Koba structure is the first prospect to be drilled as part of Longreachs exploration well programme.

[EGYPT]

Petroceltic lowers 2014 production target to 20m bpd

Irish independent Petroceltic International has forecasted that it will produce somewhere between 20 and 22 million bpd in 2014, considerably less than the 25.2 million bpd it made in 2013 as part of its 2014 guidance. It is thought the reduction is due to a slowdown in drilling in Egypt due to budget constraints stemming from delays in debt recovery from the Egyptian government.

[LIBYA]

British energy worker murder in Libya sends shockwavesThe brutal murder in late December, of a British energy industry contractor and his New Zealand partner on a beach 65 km west of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, has sent shockwaves across foreign companies operating in the country. Purported pictures posted online in the aftermath of the incident which took place near the oil export terminal complex of Mellitah, show that Mark De Salis and Lynn Howie were having a picnic. De Salis is said to have been working as a power manager for First Engineering to bring in power generators to the Libyan capital. The incident calls into question the safety of foreign workers employed in Libya.

[ALGERIA]

Endress+Hauser solidifiesUAE and Algeria presenceEndress+Hauser is aiming to open up what it calls important growth markets in the Middle East and Northern Africa by establishing its own subsidiaries in the UAE and Algeria. The two new sales centres build upon the German firms existing presence through local representative Descon Automation Control Systems for the UAE market and Symes, its long-time representative in Algeria located in Annaba.

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[SAUDI ARABIA]

Larsen & Toubro wins major Saudi Aramco order

Indian EPC contractor Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has won a major order from Saudi Aramco to construct 55 km of 230kV double circuit overhead transmission line and underground cabling to meet future power demand at the Berri oil field in eastern part of Saudi Arabia. The project will be completed in 26 months. The project will see the replacement of the existing 115kV electrical power supply system with the new 230kV power system at the Abu Ali Plants to overcome existing electrical system deficiencies and to meet the future electrical demand load required by the Berri field to maintain production at 250,000 bpd to support Karan and Arabiyah fields.

[OMAN]

Oman Drydock targets LNG carrier and jackup market

The Oman Drydock Company (ODC) has outlined its plans to expand its capabilities for the jackup drilling rig, FPSO vessels and LNG carrier (LNGC) markets. ODC marketing director, Johnny Woo said the company has ambitious expansion plans for the upcoming year with its ability to handle all ship sizes. Our expansion into LNGC will further be strengthened by our new license to support the French engineering firm Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT) which specialises in cargo containment systems for high-end liquefied natural gas carriers, he said. ODC can provide repair and conversion services to jack up drilling rigs, drill ships and FPSOs.

[UAE]

Drydocksto build biggest ever jackup rig

Drydocks World in Dubai has signed an agreement with Drill One Capital for building the Dubai Expo 2020 NS mega jackup rig. Gusto MSC which is one of our major partners in this project has designed the CJ 80 rig and the rig will be the first of this design to be built and will be the largest jackup rig ever built. Designed to be operated in harsh environments including the Norwegian Sector of the North Sea at a maximum water-depth of 175m with a 25m air-gap, the rig is another ground-breaking project among the growing portfolio of new build projects for the offshore oil & gas being implemented by Drydocks World.

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[KUWAIT] AMEC wins $418 million KOC consultancy contract

AMEC has been awarded a renewed contract by the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) to provide project management consultancy services for a portfolio of major upstream projects in Kuwait. The five-year call-off contract is worth approximately US$418 million. It follows the companys delivery of two previous five-year contracts held since 2004. Under the new contract, AMEC will provide the same services as the previous contracts, ranging from front end engineering design (FEED), Project Management Consultancy (PMC) services, engineering, construction management and training of Kuwaiti engineers.

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2014 has seen an eventful first month of the year with partial sanctions being lifted in Iran and new horizons opening in Abu Dhabi with the expiring of the 75-year oil-production agreement in mid-January.

Both set of events will help shape the regions oil and gas landscape. International oil and gas companies vying for a share of Abu Dhabis major oil and gas concessions could well find themselves working according to tighter reservoir-specific terms and we cover this likelihood on p10, with exclusive comments from the UAEs Minister of Energy Suhail Mohamed Al-Mazrouie.

In late January, limited sanctions against Iran from the US and EU were lifted after the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that Iran had stuck to its part of the landmark deal agreed in November to curb its nuclear ambitions. Although Irans

petrochemical industry is set to benefit from the six month relief, it is the countrys strategic oil and gas sector that Iran is hoping will woo western oil majors, including BP, Eni, Shell and Total, who had a closed-door meeting on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

In this issue of Pipeline Magazine we hear exclusively from Emerson Process Managements vice president of oil and gas, how the end of easy oil is making the industry look to new types of techniques to deal with the more complex ways to extract oil and gas in the future. Larry Irving touches on the important part that shale gas will play and delves into the US firms long experience on the shale gas side.

Education and training within the regions hydrocarbon industry is proving a significant challenge for everyone within the sector and we hear from BPs head of graduate resourcing and its VP for human resources for the Middle East about what it is doing in Oman and the UAE to attract the right local talent. We also hear exclusively from Lukoils head of professional development at West Qurna-2 in Iraq about the success the Russian oil major has had since it established its own training centre in the previously war-torn country in late 2012.

Finally, we put a big focus on East Africa as we investigate the high stakes on offer in the oil and gas boom taking place in countries on the east coast of Africa, which is set to become a major international player on the world energy stage.

Next month sees the much-anticipated Oil Barons Charity Ball return for its 11th edition which will be staged on Friday 28th February at the Meydan Racecourse, Dubai.

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DNO completes farm-in of offshore Tunisian blocks Norwegian oil and gas company, DNO International, announced completion of the farm-in by its wholly-owned subsidiary DNO Tunisia AS to the Sfax Offshore Exploration Permit and the Ras El Besh Concession in Tunisia. The move follows a previous announced agreement with Eurogas International Inc. and Atlas Petroleum Exploration Worldwide Ltd. DNO Tunisia now holds an 87.5 per cent participating (100 per cent paying) interest in the permit and the concession. It now also has assumed operatorship and a significant share of the existing cost pool.

GE to provide six Mega-Structure power modulesto ZADCOGE Oil & Gas has received a contract to provide a turnkey turbomachinery solution to Petrofac Emirates for the Upper Zakum UZ750 field in Abu Dhabi, developed by ZADCO (Zakum Development Company). The turbomachinery equipment will be delivered in the form of massive, standalone, plug-and-play modules, which will ship intact from GEs advanced construction facility in Avenza, Italy, to an artificial island located 50 miles offshore of Abu Dhabi. Each module will weigh more than 1,500 tonnes and be 44m long, 20m wide and 24m high. These six mega structures will serve as the housing in which a turbogenerator train is located that will provide electric power to ZADCOs oil production facilities, including pumps and gas compressors, also on the island. The advanced module design was most recently deployed during the construction of five massive systems developed for Australias Gorgon field, one of the largest and most complex gas fields in the world. Like those made for Gorgon, these modules will be assembled, commissioned and tested ahead of shipment to the UAE so that they can be simply and quickly installed and ready for operation.

International oil and gas companies vying for a share of Abu Dhabis major oil and gas concessions could likely find themselves working according to tighter reservoir-specific terms, according to a prominent industry commentator.

The existing 75-year concession dating back to January 11, 1939 that saw multinationals BP, Shell, Total, ExxonMobil and Portugals Partex Oil & Gas help state-run Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) steadily develop its output capacity and technological expertise, expired on January 9.

My hunch is that in allowing the concession to expire, the faction in SPC [Supreme Petroleum Council] favouring to split the concession up on more reservoir-specific seems to have prevailed. If that is right, the company mix is likely to change too, industry analyst Samuel Ciszuk told Pipeline Magazine.

About 60 per cent of Abu Dhabis oil output is derived from the concessions owned by ADNOC subsidiary Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Operations (ADCO).

In an attempt to retain a toehold in the major OPEC producer, BP, Shell, Total and ExxonMobil are all thought to have said that they will pay Abu Dhabi 11 cents more per barrel over what the emirate currently charges for its Murban grade crude.

Abu Dhabis crude output in December was 2.76 million bpd or just over 9 per cent of OPECs daily global oil supply.

The decision making process to award the concessions continues to be opaque even if you ask the countrys top energy official.

The ministry is not concerned about this so we cannot talk about it, we cannot declare anything, the UAEs Minister of Energy, Suhail Mohammed Al-Mazrouei told Pipeline Magazine on the exhibition floor of last months World Future Energy Summit (WFES) in Abu Dhabi.

Pressed further on his expectations for awarding the concessions the minister said: My hope is that its fair and we maintain talking to companies and everyone is happy...we allow enough time for the newcomers to

look and see and I think thats fair.In announcing the expiry of the

concession, ADNOCs director-general, Abdulla Nasser Al Suwaidi stressed that ADCO would continue to operate the concession areas on ADNOCs behalf.

Ciszuk, a senior adviser to the Swedish Energy Industry who has closely followed the MENA regions oil and gas industry especially in his previous roles with oil and gas consultancies KBC and IHS, believes that this is very much a temporary move by the SPC.

In any case, the government of Abu Dhabi has now gone almost as far as possible in strengthening its hand ahead of new negotiations and bidding, having deprived the IOCs of their owner role. IOCs [are] needed for the growth plans, but right now Abu Dhabi can wait longer than the IOCs, which will continue to play ball on existing ongoing work not to burn any bridges at this point, he explained via e-mail.

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The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has approved Maersk Oils acquisition of a 40 per cent non-operating interest in the Piramagrun and Qala Dze Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) from Repsol Oriente Medio S.A.

The Spanish oil firm will continue to operate exploration activities and also hold a 40 per cent interest. The KRG will hold the remaining 20 per cent share of each block.

The Piramagrun and Qala Dze blocks are located approximately 150 km east of Erbil, the regional capital of Kurdistan and cover an area of approximately 2,747 sq km. During 2012, Repsol undertook a significant 2D seismic acquisition programme which identified a number of drilling targets. In November 2013 work commenced on the Zewe-1 exploration well and drilling in the Qala Dze PSC is

expected to begin in the early part of 2014.Jakob Thomasen, CEO of Maersk Oil said:

Being present and active in one of the worlds most promising and prolific exploration basins is a fundamental part of Maersk Oils strategy. We are on a journey to increase entitlement production to 400,000 barrels of oil per day by 2020. We expect our position in Kurdistan Region of Iraq to help us sustain the target production level beyond 2020.

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Kurdistan is all set to begin pumping its own oil to the world via a new pipeline by the end of January, according to a recent communiqu by the Kurdistan Regional Governments (KRGs) Ministry of Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR).

Shipment of the crude from Iraqs semi-autonomous region will pass through pipelines in Turkey to the countrys oil export terminals at Ceyhan on the Mediterranean coast.

At the time of going to press, the ministry anticipated that an initial shipment of two million barrels of oil would take place at the end of January followed by an increase to 4 and 6 million barrels by the end of February and March respectively. The expectation is to ramp this up steadily to 10-12 million barrels by the end of December.

The beginning of January saw initial quantities of crude oil produced from the Tawke field begin to flow through Kurdistans new pipeline system to Ceyhan. The ministry said that crude oil from Taq-Taq and other producing fields will soon be added to the export system.

In a bid to allay uncertainties from foreign buyers who fear they may be crossing the

wishes of Baghdad, the MNR has said that prospective buyers can lift the crude shipments from Ceyhan under similar terms to those used by Iraqs State Oil Marketing Organisation (SOMO) for oil exports from Kirkuk.

The move was always bound to anger Baghdad which maintains that the KRG is essentially smuggling the oil without its knowledge or blessing.

The procedure of the ministry of natural resources of Kurdistan province is considered as a violation to the Iraqi constitution related to the Iraqi natural resources, Baghdad said.

The Economist Intelligence Units energy analyst, Peter Kiernan told Pipeline Magazine that: There is little Baghdad can do about this, although it appears that Iraq will have access to the revenue stream from KRG oil exports, so in this sense the central government of Iraq is not completely shut out of the process. This is the only way Turkey and the KRG will have a chance of ensuring Iraqi acquiescence to closer energy ties between Irbil and Ankara. Nevertheless, Iraq will still maintain a level of wariness about these closer ties.

Kurdistan to independently pump oilAbu Dhabi extends Inpexs Upper Zakum concessionJapans Inpex Corporation has announced that the government of Abu Dhabi has extended its concession for the offshore Upper Zakum oilfield by more than 15 years to December 31, 2041. The fiscal terms and conditions on the concession for the Upper Zakum Oilfield have also been revised, Inpex said. Currently, the development work is carried out using the artificial islands whilst the production capacity is targeted at 750,000 bpd. Inpex expects that the extension of the concession should contribute to the long term stable supply of energy to Japan.

Mubadala increases position in MalaysiaMubadala Petroleum has signed an agreement with Shell to swap equity in two exploration blocks offshore Malaysia. Under the agreement, starting January 1, 2014 Mubadala Petroleum will gain a 20 per cent interest in the deepwater Block 2B while Shell will gain a 20 per cent interest in Block SK320. Deepwater Block 2B is operated by Shell, Mubadala Petroleum operates Block SK320. PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd is a participant in both blocks. In addition, the current exploration drilling campaign in Block SK320 has yielded two new gas discoveries, Pegaga and Sintok, to add to the existing M5 discovery.

Algeria to double oil and gas output in 10 yearsAlgeria is to double its oil and gas production in a decade due to notable exploration success in the past year according to Youcef Yousfi, the countrys energy minister. Algeria plans very seriously to double its gas production, AFP quoted him as saying. Yousfi also said that shale gas would add to the ambitious production target.

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UK based Hydraulic tools manufacturer Hi-Force recently announced that it will be opening a brand new workshop within its Dammam operation in Saudi Arabia.

The launch of the facility, due for completion in early 2014 combined with the extensive stock holding within the country, allows Hi-Force to offer its customers a one stop solution for all of their hydraulic tool requirements. In addition to supply of Hi-Force products, the announcement of a workshop facility allows for the repair and testing of products as well as hand torque wrench and hydraulic torque wrench calibration services.

Complete with a good stock of commonly used spare parts, as well as highly skilled technicians, the Hi-Force workshop in Dammam

is able to offer a first class guaranteed repair service for all Hi-Force products as well as most international competitor brands.

Also housed within the 100 sqm facility is an extensive rental fleet of hydraulic torque wrenches and bolt tensioners, available on both a short and long term basis. The rental fleet offers customers an economical alternative to purchasing capital intensive specialised equipment at short notice, or can even serve as a stop gap whilst having their own equipment serviced or repaired. The rental fleet also allows Hi-Force representatives to offer onsite demonstrations to customers, providing a brief training on the safe and proper use of the equipment, as well as highlighting its various superior features and capabilities.

Country manager, K. Bala said: Saudi represents a huge market for both Hi-Force products and services. With the additional investment of a fully fitted workshop by our business partners, MSS, Hi-Force is now armed with providing customers a complete service including supply, rental, repair, testing and onsite services which will help to secure our position within the market and hopefully increase our business levels across the country.

ADMA-OPCO has signed an engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) contract with the National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC) worth US$885 million for the Lower Zakum Field, offshore Abu Dhabi.

The Lower Zakum Field is one of the largest oilfields in the world and NPCC has been awarded the first phase of Lower Zakum oil lines replacement project, which consists of approximately 90 km of oil pipelines replacement and associated wellhead towers modification.

The project is the third major EPC contract awarded to NPCC by ADMAOPCO within the last 12 months, the earlier being the Umm Lulu Package 1 and Umm Lulu Package 2 projects.

ADMA-OPCO said in a statement that this

deal fits its strategy of replacing aged oil pipelines in the existing offshore fields with the objective of mitigating potential environmental risks; maximising asset lifetime and sustaining the oil production capacity.

Ali Al-Jarwan, ADMA-OPCO CEO commented: Its our pleasure to have NPCC with us in this highly significant project which requires maximum attention in terms of quality and HSE.

The project is part of ADMA-OPCOs Lower Zakum plus 100 mbd programme aimed at enhancing the oil production capacity from Lower Zakum Field, which is part of its overall scheme to raise the companys oil production from the current 600,000 bpd to around one million bpd by 2020.

ADMA signs $885m EPC with NPCC

NEWS IN BRIEFHi-Force to open repair andtesting workshop in Dammam

Hi-Force workshop facility

Cepsa and Cosmo sign strategic partnership Japans Cosmo Oil and Spanish oil company Cepsa have signed a Memorandum of Agreement forging a strategic cooperation in the oil and gas sector, both in the UAE and globally. Under the memorandum, Cepsa and Cosmo will work together to identify and develop mutually beneficial opportunities for securing new concessions, promoting their exploration and production businesses, and exploring synergies and prospects across their refining, marketing, petrochemical, power, and renewable energy units.

First petchems shipment from western Saudi port Almajdouie Logistics together with its sister company RPL (Rabigh Petrochemical Logistics Company LLC) handled the first export shipment of petrochemical products through King Abdullah Port (KAP) for Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Company (PetroRabigh) on January 5, 2014. KAP is located at King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) in Rabigh on the western coast of Saudi Arabia. The shipment represents the first export operation of the King Abdullah port. The cargo, which consists of 54 containers of polymer material, was shipped on board a carrier heading to Singapore. The port is an important infrastructure investment which is, among other things, aligned with Saudi Arabias strategy of developing downstream industries so as to drive value and job creation, commented Jarmo T. Kotilaine, a regional analyst. Group president Abdullah Almajdouie stated: The start of new port will ease the congestion at Jeddah Port and Jeddah City but we have long way to go.


[PERU]

Repsol sheds LNG assets, sells to Shell for $4.1bnRepsol has

completed the sale of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) assets with the handover to Shell of assets in Peru and Trinidad and Tobago. In October 2013, Repsol sold its stake in Spanish firm Baha Bizkaia Electricidad (BBE) to BP, which exercised a purchase option over the asset. The deal gives Shell an additional 7.2 million tonnes per annum of directly managed LNG volumes. It is expected to enhance the Anglo-Dutch companys portfolio with LNG being supplied in the Atlantic from Trinidad & Tobago, and in the Pacific from Peru.

INTERNATIONAL NEWSMAP

[GREENLAND] Statoil buys into new Greenland blockStatoil, along with

partners ConocoPhillips and Nunaoil, has been awarded a block offshore Greenlands northeast coast where the Norwegian oil company will be the operator. Awarded following the East Greenland licence round, Block 6 is located in a frontier area offshore Greenland which is geographically part of North America but governed under Danish authority. Statoil will hold 52.5 per cent, ConocoPhillips will have 35 per cent and Nunaoil will have 12.5 per cent in the block. We recognise that this is a challenging area, but it is also potentially prospective. And we believe that Arctic resources in the future will become important to meeting the worlds energy demand, said Runi M. Hansen, Statoil country manager for Greenland and the Faroes.

[BRAZIL] Commercial declaration made for offshore Brazil areaBG Group has confirmed that its partner, Brazils state-run oil major Petrobras - the operator of block BM-S-9 in the pre-salt Santos Basin - has submitted a Declaration of Commerciality (DoC) to the Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP), for the oil and gas accumulations in the Carioca area, offshore Brazil. As part of the DoC, the consortium has suggested that the new field be named Lapa. The Lapa field is located approximately 270 km off the coast of So Paulo state, in water depths of around 2,140m.

[UK]

North Seas Orca field begins gas productionRWE Dea UK has

announced start of production from the Southern North Sea gas field Orca. The operator is GDF Suez E&P Nederland B.V., with RWE Dea as partner. The Orca field will be developed by drilling three wells in total. The first two development wells have been drilled and completed in 2013. The third producer is currently being drilled and is expected to be completed in February. Orca is the fourth of our UK projects coming on stream within only 1.5 years, said Dirk Warzecha, COO of RWE Dea AG.

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[AZERBAIJAN] KBR bags Shah Deniz contract from BPKBR has been awarded a contract by BP Exploration to provide engineering

and procurement services for the Shah Deniz Stage Two project in the Caspian Sea. The field lies some 70 km offshore in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea. The contract is worth US$365 million and work is thought to have begun in January and will run through to 2018. The US firm will provide engineering design and procurement support services for an offshore complex consisting of two bridge-linked fixed jacket platforms as well as an onshore gas processing facility.

[REPUBLIC OF CONGO]

Qatar Petroleum joins Total in CongoQatar Petroleum International (QPI) has been given a 15 per

cent capital holding by Total in its Total E&P Congo assets which are mainly offshore the Republic of Congo in West Africa. The deal follows the signing of a framework agreement in early May. The US$1.6 billion dollar increase of Total E&P Congos capital will consolidate its financial capacity at a time when it is progressing the development of the Moho Nord deep offshore project.

[GABON]

OMV buys into offshore Gabon fieldsOMV has signed binding farm-in agreements with London-listed independent exploration firm Ophir Energy offshore Gabon in West Africa. The move, part of OMVs next step in increasing its exploration business in Sub-Saharan Africa, follows the companys acquisition of an interest offshore Madagascar earlier in the year. OMV CEO Gerhard Roiss said: It is part of OMVs strategy to build up new exploration business in the region of Sub-Saharan Africa. The first step has been taken with the entry into Madagascar which is now followed by a new exploration venture in Gabon. These projects are the basis for long-term growth in the region.

[AUSTRALIA]

Worlds first coal seam gas sent to Aussie LNG projectBG Group has announced that the Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG)

project has received first gas from the Surat Basin coal seam gas fields in Australia the worlds first coal seam gas to LNG project. Delivery of first gas onto Curtis Island, where the liquefaction terminals are located marks the successful completion of a two-year task to lay more than 46,000 lengths of one-metre diameter steel pipe over 540 km. Arrival of first gas onto the island enables commissioning work to begin on the first of two LNG production trains being developed by the group as part of the integrated QCLNG project. This commissioning work is expected to begin in the first quarter of 2014.

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Total is first energy major to frack in UK French oil major Total has acquired a 40 per cent interest in two shale gas exploration licences in the UK, making it the first major energy company to invest in hydraulic fracturing or fracking in the country.

The interests in which Total will be the operator, are in Petroleum Exploration & Development Licences 139 and 140 in the Gainsborough Trough area of the East Midlands region of the UK covering an area of 240 km2.

Patrice de Vivis, Totals senior vice president for Northern Europe, said: This opportunity is an important milestone for Total E&P UK and opens a new chapter for the subsidiary in a promising onshore play. The Group is already involved in shale gas projects in the US, Argentina, China, Australia and in Europe in Poland and in Denmark, and will leverage its expertise in this new venture in the UK.

On completion of the transaction, Totals

partners in the project will be GP Energy Limited (a subsidiary of Dart Energy Europe) (17.5 per cent), Egdon Resources UK Ltd (14.5 per cent), Island Gas Ltd (IGas) (14.5 per cent) and eCorp Oil & Gas UK Ltd (13.5 per cent).

IGas will be the operator of the initial exploration programme, with Total subsequently taking over operatorship as the project moves towards development.

The UK government has been quick to talk up the economic benefits of fracking saying that nearly US$2 billion could be pumped back into the economy from these operations.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has been on record saying: A key part of our long-term economic plan to secure Britains future is to back businesses with better infrastructure.

Thats why were going all out for shale. It will mean more jobs and opportunities for people, and economic security for our country.

The move by Total has sparked environmental protests

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Petrofacs Malaysian based engineering services business; RNZ Integrated (M) Sdn Bhd also known as Petrofac-RNZ, has been awarded a five-year umbrella design and engineering services contract in Malaysia by Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd (Petronas Carigali).

Under the scope of the competitively tendered contract, Petrofac-RNZ will be providing a range of multi-discipline consultancy and design services against specific scopes of work for Petronas Carigalis assets in the region. The contract will be delivered by the task-force teams from Petrofac-RNZs engineering centre in Kuala Lumpur, whilst also being able to access the complementary expertise from Petrofacs wider capability base.

Petrofac will provide a range of multi-discipline design services

Petrofac wins consultancy work from Petronas

New oil and gas discoveries have been made by Statoil and its partners in the North Sea.

Statoil, the operator on Block PL272, found gas in the Askja West prospect and an oil discovery in the Askja East prospect offshore Norway.

The exploration wells 30/11-9 S and 30/11-9 A, drilled by the drilling rig Ocean Vanguard, are located between the Oseberg and Frigg fields and about 13 km southeast of the Statoil-operated Krafla/Krafla West discoveries.

Statoil estimates the total volumes in Askja West and Askja East to be in the range of 19 - 44 million barrels of recoverable oil equivalent.

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The era of easy oil is behind us, notes Irving, and the oil and gas industry must look to new types of techniques, which are more complex, to extract oil or gas in the future.

Irving remarks: We have to do something different.

The oil and gas industry is very important for Emerson Process Management and in 2013 the companys revenues were about US$8.5 billion, of which oil and gas contributed around 42 per cent, making it by far the US rms largest business segment.

The Middle East is paramount for us, notes Irving. He also believes that the equation on how to use elds and reservoirs in the region will change in the future.

Middle East elds are very viable and there is an abundance of oil. What we need to do is change the techniques we use to extract it. No longer will we be able to rely on the natural pressure of the reservoir.

He argues that the industry must change the technologies they use.

Natural gasA real focus in the region revolves around the

moving of natural gas. Countries in the Middle East are seriously investing in the infrastructure needed to move and import natural gas in and around the area.

Regasifcation is one such hot topic as the region needs new multiple sources locally here in places like the UAE, which you think would have enough natural gas but they dont. So we have new pipelines into the region and LNG imports in the region, says Irving.

He feels this presents a huge opportunity to be able to capture much of the natural gas today that is either ared or reinjected. This will allow the region to try and capitalise on this and commercialise it.

According to Irving, Emerson has many solutions for natural gas and the firm provides multiple solutions to not only help find natural gas but to help move it through the pipelines and all the way through to the point of consumption.

Natural gas is one of the largest growing energy sources for the future. I see a whole new industry forming around natural gas opportunities as natural gas is going to be at the forefront of generating their electricity, he says.

Shale gas experienceShale gas is also playing an important role and

Emerson is doing a lot on the shale gas side.Irving sees a shift coming from shale gas

development and drew an interesting contrast between the conventional natural gas that is seen in the Middle East, relative to what will come based on Emersons shale gas experience.

Conventional reservoirs in the region have seen very large volumes of natural gas produced at a few wells. Producers have been able to rely on traditional reservoirs for a very long period of time. Shale is the opposite, according to Irving.

You will need your economic return sorted out

in a two year period. The depletion rate in shale year from year is very dramatic, he points out.

With shale you are in a perpetual drill cycle. The only way to replace the dramatic depletion, which could be as high as 70 per cent, is to drill more wells. So it becomes a true manufacturing process - you must be very good at doing the same thing over and over again.

For the operator and producer, you will need a repeatable engineering design and this requires efciency and optimisation

Speed is of the essence, so speed to drill, speed to bring online. These are the main differences between conventional and shale, he argues.

So instead of one unique highly engineered well that you have today in the region you will have multiple, repeatable wells in the future.

Emerson has automated thousands and thousands of shale gas wells in the US.

There is no doubt that we have benets from the shale revolution. It has been important for North America to be able to provide greater energy independence but eventually to become an LNG exporter, which it will. This will impact the world. It will have an effect on pricing structures, remarks Irving.

Potential for shale in the region could be a game changer, especially in Algeria. In Saudi Arabia it is still very early days and the country has around seven exploratory wells, but the potential is there, according to Irving.

The development of shale gas in the region ts quite nicely with the Middle East strategy to use more natural gas to bring primary electricity and to do it efciently, he rmly believes.

In conclusion Irving says: The next frontier is to try and connect all the capabilities to the business. How well we can connect the speed of the operation to the market opportunities, that are starting to move from long term contracts to short term spot market opportunities.

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The energy industry may never see an oil and gas boom such as that in east Africa with its promise of handsome returns. Emran Hussain finds the stakes are high here, then again so are the rewards

EAST AFRICA: WHO DARES, WINS

In my opinion, I think the east

coast of Africa is going to become an enormous international player Charlie Benson, COO, Hayaat Group

In my opinion, I think the east

coast of Africa is going to become an enormous international player Charlie Benson, COO, Hayaat Group

The past few years have seen a urry of activity among many companies in east Africa some local but mostly foreign drawn to the idyllic Indian Ocean shores of the region which is some of the poorest anywhere that continues to attract them.

But they come not in search of developing the next tourist hotspot, as with much of the African story in recent times, it is the vast oil and gas potential lying beneath the soil and further offshore east Africa.

In terms of hydrocarbons, the region should be seen as part of a larger African narrative, the continent produced some 12.4 per cent of the worlds overall crude output in 2010, exported 20 per cent of global oil exports and 8.8 per cent of the worlds proven oil reserves. All this without even beginning to exploit the up and coming east African region.

Natural gas deposits off the coast of east Africa Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique put Nigeria, Africas largest energy producer, quite easily in the shade.

This promises to be a blessing for the region where average annual incomes are below US$600 and life expectancy is less than 60 years. Other hurdles - which vary from country to country that have until now been the reason for outside investors to shun the region have been a poor business climate that has tended to be inward-looking coupled with the lack of good infrastructure and logistics.

However one thing any new entrant to Africa should expect, is the unexpected, says Charlie Benson chief operating ofcer of Abu Dhabi based multi-sector investment rm Hayaat Group, a company that has recently entered the east African upstream energy industry through a 10 per cent acquisition of Australian company Swala Energy which operates there.

So many things can happensome of the

challenges we have faced revolve around logistical challenges in the areas that we are operating inbut that breeds opportunities, he explains.

He believes that it is for this very fact that many businesses choose not to invest in Africa but in the same breath says that many others do for precisely this reason it is an opportunists market for sure.

Massive growth potentialThe good news is that the region has huge

growth potential, countries like Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Uganda are home to some of the worlds fastest-growing economies. All of these countries have either discovered vast deposits of oil and gas in the last few years, for the time being it is the latter that is drawing a huge amount of attention from the likes of Statoil, Shell and ExxonMobil.

Tanzania which has east Africas second biggest economy, is expected to see its gas resources grow vefold, the countrys energy and minerals ministry said last August. The country which is most famous for being home to Mount Kilimanjaro and its vast Serengeti planes, is estimated to currently hold 43.1 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of recoverable natural gas. This latest announcement predicts that in the

coming two years alone, Tanzanias gas reserves could rise to 200 tcf.

With plans to drill 17 new wells in the current scal year running from July 2013 to June 2014 and costing nearly $700 million, Tanzania is on course to nd more high-impact gas nds.

Going further south in neighbouring Mozambique, the rosy outlook continues and on an even bigger scale. Mozambiques prolic offshore Rovuma basin which borders Tanzania is said to hold 200 tcf of gas and in 2013 was the setting for six major deals worth $9.3 billion by exploration and production companies from major gas importing countries China and India.

Ticking clock for LNG exportsWith such major gas nds in the region, east

Africa is being billed as the third-largest natural gas exporter in the world, a rather exclusive club that includes major gas exporting nations such as Russia, Qatar, Australia and soon the United States on the back of its shale gas boom.

With natural gas growing in importance as part of the global energy mix well into the foreseeable future, east Africas gas boom seems quite timely especially as gas derived from the region is expected to be competitively priced compared to other regions.

Consultants at Wood Mackenzie in 2012 estimated that east African liqueed natural gas destined for the hugely lucrative Asian market would likely be priced at $7 per million British thermal units (BTUs) in order to break even compared to LNG from Australia which would require $10 per million BTUs.

Now that east Africa is seeing its gas producing potential grow beyond its wildest expectations, the next logical step is to export the product, and quickly.

Statoil and Britains gas explorer, BG Group that have considerable acreage in Tanzanias

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offshore blocks have announced plans to build a two-train LNG plant on the Tanzanian coast. Italian oil and gas rm Eni and US independent Anadarko Petroleum have similar plans to build a LNG export facility in northern Mozambique.

However in both cases, the clock is ticking as US shale gas exports are set to begin in 2015 potentially causing a glut in the already volatile global gas market, driving down the price of the commodity.

Given that construction of these LNG terminals which can usually take around ve years has not even started, sufce to say that any export of east African natural gas in the future will begin at a lower than expected price point.

Much like the rest of the continent, the considerably higher logistics costs compared to other more developed parts of the world, are already starting to make heads sweat.

If you look at where theyre building the large LNG terminal up in northern Mozambiqueit is a relatively small town, right up in the north of the country.

Just logistically investing the sums of money that theyre talking about investing, depending on who youre talking to, varies from anything between $20 to $40 billion. Thats a huge amount of challenges, Hayaat Groups Benson

tells Pipeline Magazine. Benson does not rule out that

the challenging onshore logistical landscape is a key reason why much of the hydrocarbon nds in east Africa have been offshore.

Youre carving through roads for seismic [equipment], youre having to cut through bush and go into areas that are very difcult to get the seismic and drilling equipment into. Whether thats the sole

reason, Im not sure, he says, I think its possibly part of it.

Although he concedes that as his company is

not directly involved in upstream activities, it is hard to say.

Kenya oil boomKenyas success in east Africas hydrocarbon

bonanza has been mainly in signicant crude oil discoveries allowing many industry watchers to speculate an entry of the oil majors in this part of the world.

Two new onshore discoveries for Africa-focused UK oil and gas exploration company, Tullow Oil in mid January, brought the revised total of its discovered resources in that particular block to 600 million barrels (mmbo). At the time of this announcement, the company said that reserves in its 10BB Block in the north of the country could be in excess of 1 billion barrels.

Whats more, each of Tullows seven wells drilled at the block thus far have resulted in discoveries.

Exploration results to date from the rst basin, amongst a chain of basins, have proven that Tullows onshore acreage in northern Kenya has the potential to become a signicant new hydrocarbon province, said Angus McCoss, Exploration director, Tullow Oil.


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The programme of over 20 wells we have planned across our licences over the next twenty four months should materially add to the 600 mmbo discovered to date through a combination of exploration and appraisal. With up to five other analogous basins being tested during this programme, Tullow has the opportunity to increase Kenyas resources significantly beyond todays estimates.

His colleague and chief operating officer, Paul McDade said: The results to date are extremely positive for achieving a commercial development from the discoveries made in this basin. There is clearly scope for the development to be expanded if there is further exploration success in other basins.

Enormous international playerIn my opinion, I think the east coast of Africa is

going to become an enormous international player- and it already has but in the fullness of time it will become an international player within the gas production market and hopefully the oil production market without a shadow of a doubt, says Benson.

There is every indication that relatively small energy players like Hayaat Group and Swala Energy have just as much to gain as their local counterparts and bigger international explorers in east Africa. The international energy industry may perhaps not see an energy boom such as east Africa with its promise to handsomely reward any company small or large, ever again the stakes are high here but then again so are the rewards.


BG Group is one of the leaders in east Africas offshore fields

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The Mauritian courts have a reputation for impartiality and are generally regarded as being supportive of arbitration, particularly since the Act came into force. Mauritius is a member of the New York Convention, and has a number of bilateral investment treaties in place. Its status as a regional offshore financial centre potentially also simplifies enforcement of arbitral awards, as companies will frequently hold assets in Mauritius.

African arbitration has, with the exception of some West African OHADA arbitration, generally been handled by the leading international arbitration centres in London, Paris and Singapore, and there appears to be a clear demand for a regional arbitration hub. Mauritius role as a major offshore jurisdiction militates in its favour in this regard, and South Africas relative underdevelopment as an arbitration centre, together with its recent revocation of many of its bilateral investment treaties, may also help to make Mauritius the most likely candidate for this role.Key features of the Act include:tBQSPWJTJPOHJWJOHEFGBVMUKVSJTEJDUJPO

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Pipeline Magazine speaks to Lyle Andrews, head of graduate resourcing, international locations at BP and Anand RV, vice president for human resources for BPs Middle East and India operations about what one of the worlds largest oil companies is doing to attract the right people in the Middle East

ATTRACTING THE RIGHT TALENT

The oil and gas industry is facing a growing dilemma of how to ensure that the next generation of engineers are nurtured properly and brought into an industry bracing for the departure of a great number of older engineers. This is known as the great crew change and international oil companies have recognised the increasing cost of trying to deal with the implications of the change.

BP is very aware of this and Andrews feels: that the great crew change is very important but there is a debate on how much of an effect this will really have.

The main focus should be on nurturing local talent as the days of over reliance on expatriate expertise are coming to an end and BP believes that companies need to ensure they have robust procedures in place.

Andrews adds:I think for us at BP there are resourcing needs in a number of locations we operate in and the best way to build up capability, regardless of the impact of the great crew change, is to intervene in the schools through improving educational standards, encouraging people to take the appropriate studies and then making sure there are actual jobs and training opportunities available within the industry.

This is why BP puts a lot of emphasise on its graduate programme and over the last four to five years has dramatically increased the global number of graduates it takes in.

We are currently at a fairly stable 900 graduates per year. We try very hard to have a top notch graduate programme that makes sure we are getting the right intake that supports our future needs, but also helps us to grow the national capabilities of the countrys youth, explains Andrews.

Historically, BP has found that it takes 15

years to develop a graduate to a level where they are fully autonomous in their work. What BP is trying to do through a more systematic approach to training and development, is to compress the time to say 10 years, Anand reveals.

We have launched a programme called eXcellence, which is a very structured development process that takes someone through the rst 10 years of their career, he says.

The programme was launched around three years ago and is now gaining momentum as it takes a while within a large company to adopt such a new approach.

Before this scheme was launched, graduates would nish our course and then it would be left to chance, but now people can roll off our graduate programme and go straight into this eXcellence scheme.

This scheme is all about on-the-job development; it is about what experiences someone needs to round off their career. It is not prescriptive, but offers a lot of exibility, notes Anand.

Local pushBP is pushing its eXcellence programme

in the Middle East, as there is a lot of young talent in the region. BPs scheme is a great selling proposition and when any young person joins the oil giant, they have got a clear career trajectory to follow.

Nationalisation is a growing issue for countries in the region and BP feels that a push for more Omanis and Emiratis in the workforce will help the region as governments across the region continue to push for a stronger national workforce.

Oman is a key target area for BP. The British oil giant is relatively new in the Sultanate, and despite having only been there for five years, the company has already built up a promising Omani workforce.

We have already achieved a 70 per cent ratio of Omanis in our workforce, which shows that we are committed to investing in the people of Oman, notes Anand.

This has been achieved through a number

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of initiatives, including starting a graduate development programme with universities in Oman under which BP piloted a scholarship programme to send a couple of Omanis to the UK every year to study engineering.

Furthermore, BP will be sending some Omanis overseas to get development training in other BP locations. They will go and spend a year working in the US or in the UK to understand how to operate an oil and gas facility, and then come back ready to operate the facility in their own country.

To aid BPs expansion in Oman, the firm has set up a technicians training centre in Oman. Over the next five years BP hopes to train up to 150 local Omani technicians.

The Omani engineers will spend one year at this facility and then another year working in the US or in the UK to understand how to operate an oil and gas facility, before coming back for some final on the job training, Anand explains.

Andrews empathises that the only way to do this successfully is to take a long term

approach and develop the talent.We are focused on an engagement

strategy now, Andrews points out.For example, at ADIPEC last November,

BP invited six top students from Omani universities studying relevant disciplines and brought them to the show, where they visited an ADCO facility and attended technical presentations.

This enabled us to show them how exciting this industry can be and helped bring their studies to life, notes Anand.

As the global oil & gas industry continues to modernise operations around the world, there is a growing understanding of the responsibility that companies have to the communities in which they operate. Indeed, public and political opinion and simple good practice necessitate that companies accept a level of social responsibility to improve the lives of the great numbers of people who are directly affected by the operations they carry out. At Lukoil, we believe that fulfilling that responsibility gives us a social license to operate, without which we would lose credibility and trust.

Underlying this growing understanding is an ever-growing challenge: finding qualified, trained employees to work at development projects. Fortunately, this challenge gives Lukoil a clear opportunity to fulfil our social contract. By providing cutting-edge training to residents, we can create a forward-looking and uniquely skilled workforce that will support the communities and countries in which we work for years to come.

This commitment is currently best exemplified through our involvement in our active project at West Qurna-2, in Iraq.

Production at West Qurna-2 is slated to begin in the rst half of 2014, and it is expected to be one of the highest-producing oilelds in the

Middle East. It will require a highly trained and committed workforce to ensure its success, safety and efciency. To meet that need, the company has established a state-of-the-art Training Centre at Basrah, Iraq.

The Training Centre, located in the North Rumaila area in the Basrah Province, was designed to train local Iraqi personnel to work at West Qurna-2. The training programme lasts eighteen months in a modular-type structure. It includes all required technical disciplines in theory and practice to cover work at various facilities of West Qurna-2 in the areas of production, oil and gas treatment, electrical and mechanical equipment operation, and more.

However, the programmes benets are not limited to building technical, site-specic expertise. The course aims to develop a holistic set of abilities; professional training that may not otherwise be available to these people that will endure beyond one particular project. To that end, the programme includes industrial and occupational safety courses, environmental protection courses, labor protection and leadership development training, and hands-on training.

The Training Centre, which was rst opened in December 2012, includes nine classrooms, six laboratories (including three computer labs and three language laboratories for English language studies), a library, technical support

ofce, training workshop, administration facilities, and instructor premises. The Centre was also designed with students lives in mind, and thus goes beyond functional training purposes; a cafeteria and recreation area are on site, and a fully equipped medical station is available to provide necessary services.

The Centre is large enough for up to 350 students, and over 500 students have already participated. The rst group of 170 students completed their training in the summer of 2013; a second group of 150 students will graduate this summer, and another 200 students will start the course in March-April 2014. All are residents of the Basra province, again showcasing Lukoils commitment to training and employing local talent.

Approximately 80 Operators from the first group of 170 also went on for an additional three-month hands-on training programme in Singapore on real live processing facilities, where they fine-tuned their practical skills in an active plant that was constructed specifically to train these specialist-operators of major petroleum chemistry works.

Following the completion of their training in the Iraqi Training Centre, all specialists are sent to various infrastructure facilities of the West Qurna-2 eld, where, under the guidance of experienced engineering and technical personnel, they will participate in the project facilities start-up and further operation.

CREATING A TRAINING CENTRE IN IRAQBy Vladimir Spiridonov, head of professional development department of the West Qurna-2 Project operated by Lukoil

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In the oil and gas industry, drilling programmes are often subject to change at very short notice which can present challenges to both field operators and their service companies. Claxton has provided an innovative solution for drilling schedule change at the West Bukha Field, Oman

INNOVATIVE SOLUTION FOR DRILLING

Claxton feels it has devised an innovative solution to the issue of drilling-schedule changes that helped a client in Oman to keep its programme on track without compromising the preferred well design.

DNO International ASA was drilling offshore Oman when a short-notice change in the drilling programme brought forward the start of work on the West Bukha 4 well. The design for this well called for the installation of four centralisers on the conductor to provide structural integrity, but only two were available at the time

of drilling. However, the schedule change meant there was no time to order the necessary additional platform centralisers from Claxton before drilling began.

DNO could have opted not to install the additional centralisers, but this was undesirable owing to the fatigue damage that can result from the movement of the conductor and the damage to the platform guides that the conductor repeatedly hitting them could cause.

Nick Dale, Claxtons business development manager, Far East, explains: Usually, we expect to install the platform centralisers at the same time as the conductor system, but,

in this case we were unable to install a full set, so we had to nd an alternative solution. We suggested retrotting the additional centralisers during drilling, as this would enable the rig to move onto the well and start operations while we designed and fabricated the items in parallel.

Analysis of the well by Claxtons Acteon sister company 2H Offshore had shown that the conductor would require these additional centralisers: one located approximately 10 metres subsea and the other in the splash zone.

Dale says, When faced with this kind of problem, some operators develop their own

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in-house solutions. Unfortunately, these may be simplistic or poorly engineered, and can often corrode or fail quickly and thus eventually require removal and replacement. DNO decided to use our retrot solution because it would deliver a well-engineered design that could be installed off the critical

path to save both offshore rig time and costly replacement in the longer term.

A comprehensive solutionClaxton in Dubai provided a complete packaged

solution, including platform and rig surveys; design, analysis and fabrication of subsea and

surface retrot centralisers; and a full installation package. Claxton also engaged and managed the activities of third-party abseiling and diving teams to assist with installation.

Mid-way through the drilling programme, during drilling of the long 133/8-in. casing section, there was sufcient space on the rig to enable Claxton to mobilise the installation team, abseilers and divers, and complete the subsea installation of the centraliser with no adverse effect on drilling operations.

Gordon Hunter, drilling manager, DNO said, Claxton provided a seamless service in terms of engineering, planning and nal installation of the retrot centralisers. During an intense period for well operations, the Claxton team went about their business in a safe and professional manner to install well-engineered centralisers right rst time.

The system that Claxton supplied was a 31-inch conductor 40-inch conductor guide, retrot, hinged centraliser complete with polyurethane buffers, quick-release collapsible


The centralisers awaiting mobilisation from the base

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hinges and proled ns to enable the centraliser to interface with the platform guide funnels. The centraliser was fabricated from AISI 4130 steel and had a corrosion-resistant, thermally sprayed aluminium coating.

The time to completion, discounting offshore delays, was approximately six months. This included the three months from initial discussions to contract award, one and a half months of fabrication work, one and a half months of planning, surveying and writing procedures, and nally one week offshore to complete the installation process.

Dale said, We strongly recommend that clients should consider centralisation at an early stage when planning new wells, but retrot solutions like this one give the added exibility to enable them to address fatigue concerns on existing wells before damage occurs and so minimise the risk of expensive repair work. A retrot solution was perfect for the project at West Bukha 4 where there was insufcient time to fabricate the centralisers

and run them with the conductors.Claxton has extensive experience of

modifying and retrotting centralisers, and carries a broad range of proven designs. This experience made it possible to take the installation work off the critical path of the DNO project, as Dale explains, We have provided several styles of retrot centraliser to clients worldwide. Centralisation is an area that may be neglected during the planning process for new wells, and ever-changing drilling schedules may mean that we have to react quickly to satisfy clients priorities.

The retrofit approach also provides a valuable solution in cases where components have reached the end of their design life. Dale concludes, The ability to devise and deliver solutions that meet customers needs at all stages of a fields life cycle is a key part of what we do. This is a particularly important consideration when the industry is seeking to extend the life expectancy of infrastructure and assets.

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The year-long process for Dolphin Energy involved the migration of Dolphin Energys system architecture from 10 redundant servers, 37 C200 controllers and 37 operator stations to Honeywells Experion R400. This migration was done on process so as to ensure the advantages of not upsetting the process, no retraining, reduced wastage and lower cost.

Dolphin Energy Limited began gas

production in July 2007. This unique strategic energy initiative involves production and processing of natural gas from Qatars offshore North Field, and transportation of the processed gas by subsea pipeline to the UAE and Oman.

The overall investment in wells, sealines, processing plant, export pipeline and receiving facilities has made this one of the largest energy-related ventures ever undertaken in the Middle East.

Challenge Dolphin Energys architecture posed a

unique challenge for on process system migration. Dolphin Energy identified the project as MASS.

The process control system included ve separate areas to be addressed. Obsolescence was a key driving inuence, with obsolete server and station hardware platforms, out of support Windows operating system software, and Experion R210 that required upgrading.

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THE ART OF MIGRATING AUTOMATION SYSTEMS

FEATURE: Process Automation

The company was well aware of the challenges and associated risk when changing out signicant portions of the system.

Solution Dolphin Energy evaluated On Process

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Recommendations Recommendations offered by the MASS

Team focus on readiness to mitigate risk.

tMethod of Statement Develop a comprehensive Method of Statement, with details customized from the User Guide (EMUG). This Method of Statement should be used in both the Offline Development System (ODS) and the live production system.

tTask Risk Assessment (TRA) Follow a methodology for risk assessment

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Dolphin Energy was able to use this methodology to identify and rank more than

100 concerns during the project, identify safeguards, and develop recommendations to ensure the safe and successful conclusion to the project.

tSet up an Offline Development System (ODS) The ODS helped Dolphin Energy develop improvement in OPM execution to o Reduce the time of Dual Primary Mode

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Historization Capability Enhancements Each online history le can hold up to 100,000 samples for each parameter, with the number of snapshots and interval averages captured for standard (maximum 10,000 point parameters) fast (maximum 1,000 point parameters), and Extended (maximum 5,000 point parameters.

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FEATURE: Power Generation

Gardiner Henderson director of oil and gas at power management company Eaton, explains how working in partnership can help the oil and gas industry de-risk by design

POWER MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES

Power management in the oil and gas industry requires the highest levels of engineering excellence and expertise; operations are often located some distance from national grid networks or in hazardous, remote locations that can make the distribution of reliable, efcient power a complex and often dangerous task.

Upstream, changes in oil and gas recovery are increasing opportunity for growth, as well as potential risks to people and prot. As exploration is conducted in ever more difcult and dangerous environments, drilling

contractors are increasingly sensitive to the reality that prots can disappear in a moment as a result of injuries, operational failure and downtime. Downstream, increasing variability and changing regulatory requirements drive optimisation of ageing and new reneries, requiring systems integration and planning for longer lifecycles, shorter downtime and increased margins. To succeed in these challenging environments, you need single-stop, customised solutions, industry tested engineering as well as deep design expertise and innovation.

A tailored solutionEach stage of the oil and gas value chain

presents its own unique power management challenges. In the tougher, more remote recovery environments of upstream operations, cost is rising inexorably as well as risks to people and the environment. In this context, the trend has been to de-man using advanced remote monitoring systems in order to reduce physical risks and offset a growing shortage of expertise and rising costs. Operators are also constantly looking for ways to reduce capital expenditure and operating

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costs by using smaller and lighter equipment on platforms coupled with energy efcient solutions such as LED lighting.

Midstream, the trend is towards ever-larger vessels with huge pressure requirements, ensuring asset integrity in ageing pipelines, tougher environmental scrutiny applied to new pipeline certications and nally increasing safety concerns with vessel, road and rail distribution. This has led to the need for solutions with comprehensive safety, control and monitoring capabilities, together with optimised maintenance with the assurance of meeting all relevant regulatory and technical standards.

Downstream, operators in this region continue to upgrade existing reneries and bring new ones online in order to process changing crudes light sweet to heavy sour all with a need for increased uptime. Operators require solutions that can be customised, on time and on budget, with the ability to maximise production and minimise unnecessary manning and downtime. There is also a need for enhanced monitoring and remote control to ensure safety, asset integrity and environmental performance whilst reducing equipment maintenance needs.

Working with one supplier that provides electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power management solutions enables customers to simplify their supply chain, while working with experts who understand their business challenges. We often nd that we can bring a new dimension of expertise to help master the heavy power capabilities and safety systems integral to uninterrupted operations in the harshest environments and to the maximisation of production and rening operations.

In addition, customisable solutions, which can be retrotted to extend lifecycles and meet changing regulatory and processing requirements, are as a key strength in building long-term relationships with customers.

Powering through innovationPower generation and distribution goes

far beyond the ability to flip the switch. Technology plays a vital role in ensuring that power is used in the most effective and efficient ways possible, helping operations to perform to be very best of their ability.

Technology must focus on the ability

to solve customers toughest power management challenges, and a culture of collaboration means that innovations can be taken from one industry and applied to many others that face similar issues. The oil and gas industry is no exception and we find that many of our most innovative and valuable products were first developed for other applications, our heave compensation technology, now used on offshore rigs, was first developed for use in naval applications.

Above all else, these innovations must enable customers to concentrate on

their day-to-day operations, safe in the knowledge that their critical power systems will run reliably, efficiently and safely. Managing power whether electrical or hydraulic - is a dangerous business, and even more so when working in remote, hazardous situations that the oil and gas industry frequently has to deal with. Yet, safety and efficient power can go hand-in-hand; whether it be ensuring that remote maintenance can be upheld, through self-cleaning filters, or the installation of products that absorb and dissipate thermal loads related to even the most severe clutch and brake operations, to advanced piping and valves that ensure oil and gas recovery in the safest but most proficient way.

And a number of innovations are designed to identify potential problems before they occur by combining remote monitoring, with technology that encourages lower maintenance-schedules as well as solutions that can sense a potential fault or risk before it occurs. For example, the prevention of corrosion, a particularly common concern for those working in high-pressure environments, can have positive maintenance, health and environmental impacts on people and assets. Signal, alarm and surveillance solutions operate in extreme environments utilising a secure technology that protects its network during a disaster and reconfigures automatically if a unit goes down, providing alerts and messages that continue broadcasting without interruption. The system can be custom built from lightweight flameproof horns to explosionproof relays and bells to ensure the correct level of monitoring is providing for the surrounding environment.

The oil and gas industry is one of the most complex for the power industry, with the need to provide solutions that accommodate remote, hazardous locations, a high-pressure and temperature industrial environments, and can help facilitate complex power requirements. This requires highly evolved technology that can continually meet the demands of the industry, while providing the necessary risk-management and safety requirements to ensure that businesses and their employees can take on their daily work without worrying about the power behind it.

Upstream, changes in oil

and gas recovery are increasing opportunity for growth, as well as potential risks to people and profit

Gardiner Henderson, Eaton

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