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Technology Drives

Exploration Focus

n With more than 40 major upstream projects slated through the end of

the decade, BP is relying on technology and a talented workforce to meet

future energy demands.

BP plans to help meet the world’s growing energy de￾mand by pumping as much as 80% of its capex into

upstream operations.

Technology will be at the heart of meeting the demand,

which is expected to jump 36% by 2030, creating a need

for 16MMb/d more oil than is needed today, according

to Lamar McKay, BP’s upstream chief executive.

Speaking during the sold-out “Unlocking the Future:

BP’s Global Upstream” topical breakfast Monday at OTC

2013, McKay said BP plans to drill as many as 25 new ex￾ploration wells per year as the company continues to ac￾quire and interpret seismic data.

“By testing at least 10 new material conventional and

unconventional opportunities every decade, we want to

be able to add at least two more new significant produc￾ing areas over the next 10 years, each with multibillion

barrel potential,” McKay said. “Worldwide, we have ac￾cessed acreage covering

more than 150,000 sq miles

since 2010. at’s an area

roughly the size of Califor￾nia and twice as much as we

acquired in the previous

nine years.”

Areas holding promise

include Brazil, Canada,

Trinidad & Tobago,

Uruguay, Australia, and the

US, among others. However,

BP is focused heavily on Angola, Azerbaijan, the Gulf of

Mexico (GoM), and the North Sea, areas that combined

are expected to generate half of the company’s operating

income by 2020, McKay said.

Admittedly an upstream-biased business, BP has slated

BY VELDA ADDISON

The operator-funded DeepStar global technology

initiative has been the upstream industry’s most

successful collaboration in tackling the challenges of

the deep.

But according to a panel of leading experts from

oil companies and contractors, the need for plenty

more collaboration and standardization as the off￾shore industry pushes into the world’s ultra-deep wa￾ters is crucial if it is to achieve its aims of both

accessing new reserves and also maximizing produc￾tion from its existing assets.

Speaking at an OTC 2013 DeepStar panel session

on Monday, Occo Roelofsen, director of the global

oil and gas practice at McKinsey & Co., highlighted

the offshore industry’s success in pushing its average

water depth 100 m (328 ) deeper every year over the

past 10 years. “We predict that over the coming 10

years the industry will also see its deepwater liquids

production grow by 7% over that period.”

The need, therefore, for collaboration initiatives

such as DeepStar is vital for its success, he contin￾ued. If the Gulf of Mexico was being operated by

one single company, it would dramatically speed up

the process of bringing fields onstream, developing

standardized technical solutions, and maximizing

the value of its assets. This theoretical single opera￾tor, Roelofsen said, would have around US $50 bil￾lion of projects today in action but would have the

potential to turn those projects into assets with a net

present value of up to $110 billion mainly through

optimization.

It also would have the ability to reduce capex and

opex by an estimated $46 billion over the next

decade, he added.

Although this single company is, of course, just

theoretical, Roelofsen’s point is that further industry

collaboration could go a long way toward achieving

some of the gains that the single entity company

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Petrovietnam

Expands Operations

n Diversification through offshore exploration and foreign ventures

helps achieve growth.

Petrovietnam has gone from being an E&P company

in Vietnam to a vertically integrated energy company

in Vietnam that is involved in oil and gas production, re￾fining and petrochemicals, international E&P, power

generation, and oilfield services. e company has been

expanding its operations internationally to increase its

reserve position.

Petrovietnam has gone from being an E&P company

in Vietnam to a vertically integrated energy company in

Vietnam that is involved in oil and gas production, re￾fining and petrochemicals, international E&P, power

generation, and oilfield services.

e company has been expand￾ing its operations internation￾ally to increase its reserve

position.

“We have been producing oil

and gas mostly on the continen￾tal shelf. We are exploring off￾shore. We have not found much

onshore,” Dr. Do Van Hau, pres￾Dr. Do Van Hau ident and CEO of Petrovietnam,

COLLABORATION

IS KEY TO

DEEPWATER

ADVANCES

n Joint industry projects can

lead to increased technology

capable of maximizing production.

See BP continued on page 46

See PETROVIETNAM continued on page 21 See ADVANCES continued on page 3

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9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ........................................University R&D Showcase

9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. ...................................Exhibition

9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m...................................Technical Sessions

12:15 p.m. to 1:45 p.m..............................Topical Luncheons

2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. ...................................Technical Sessions

3 p.m. to 4 p.m. ........................................Happy Hour

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would achieve. “Deepwater and oil and gas has been all about

technology. Technology is a very important component, but I

would say an important next step is in the economics and col￾laboration to find more value.”

Another speaker, Steve urston, Chevron’s vice president of

deepwater exploration and projects, said, “e fact is that what

is normal today was considered ‘impossible’ 10 years ago. And

what is ‘impossible’ today will be normal in 10 years from now.

So in terms of technology, we need it all, from top to bottom.”

He highlighted dual-gradient drilling technology as being a clear

example of a DeepStar technology that went from an initial re￾search project in 1996 to full deployment in 2013. e technique

essentially eliminates water depth constraints for deepwater wells

by replacing the mud in the riser with sea water density fluids.

Projects such as this are the lifeblood of DeepStar, which re￾mains the industry’s most well-known collaboration, having

been in existence for more than 20 years and having successfully

identified and executed hundreds of R&D projects so far. It has

invested more than $100 million in these projects and 325 tech￾nical reports.

e focus of its current Phase 11 work program is on deepwa￾ter developments in water depths of up to 3,048 m (10,000 ),

involving more than 30 separate projects, but its goals are aimed

at developing new enabling technologies for economic produc￾tion in depths of up to 3,658 m (12,000 ).

According to Greg Kusinki, Chevron’s DeepStar director, the

joint industry project is already under way with the process of

deciding what will be tackled in Phase 12. e member company

operators will start discussing potential projects in June before

voting on which ones to select in September or October. Phase

12 will kick off officially in January 2014.

e current member operators of DeepStar are Anadarko Pe￾troleum, BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Maersk Oil, Marathon

Oil, Nexen Petroleum, Petrobras, Statoil, Total, and Woodside

Energy, but it also has more than 60 contributing member com￾panies for Phase 11.

“Generally, DeepStar will continue with the successful need￾driven process with strategic overarching top-down direction,”

Kusinki said.“e needs will be both near-term to five years, and

longer term to 10 years.”

He said that the management committee will be encouraging

bigger impact projects that are conducted in a more collabora￾tive manner, particularly with larger contributors. “DeepStar

expects to continue interaction with regulators to ensure Deep￾Star-developed technologies can be readily accepted for deploy￾ment and use.” n

Panelists in the DeepStar plenary session yesterday at OTC focused on key issues such as standardization and collaboration and

how the industry can improve its economic performance on major deepwater projects. Panelists included moderator Greg Kusinski

of Chevron (speaking at the podium), Kevin Kennelly of BP, Ram Shenoy of ConocoPhillips, John Gremp of FMC Technologies,

Solange Guedes of Petrobras, Steve Thurston of Chevron, Alain Goulois of Total, and Occo Roelofsen of McKinsey & Co.

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Spotlight Award Winners Address Subsea Challenges

OTC2013’s SpotlightAwardwinnersinclude companies

and technologiesthat are helping to move the offshore

industry forward.In Monday’sshowdaily, the first of the 15

award winners were reviewed. ey included ABB for its

OnboardDCGrid power distribution, automation, and elec￾tric propulsion system and Baker Hughes for the Fastrak

LWD fluid analysis sampling and testing service. Dow Oil

and Gas, PIH, Trelleborg Offshore, and Bayou Wasco Insu￾lation alsowon forthe NeptuneAdvanced Subsea FlowAs￾surance Insulation System. FMC Technologies won for its

Condition and Performance Monitoring (CPM) soware

service, and FMCteamed upwith Sulzer Pumps Ltd.to take

home an award fortheHigh-SpeedHelico-AxialMultiphase

Subsea Boosting System. Finally, GEOil & Gaslewith two

awards, forits RamTel Plus and ROV Subsea Display Panel,

and anotherforthe Deepwater BOP Blind Shear Ram.

Riserless drilling technology addresses deepwater hazards

Reelwell has received an award for the Reelwell Riserless

Drilling Method (RDM) technology. e company de￾scribed its RDM technology as a new solution for drilling

E&P wells, enabling the drilling of well sections with

challenging pressure conditions and

drilling to targets beyond conventional

reach. Reelwell developed the new method

with support from Petrobras, RWE, Shell,

Total, and the Research Council of Norway.

e RDM technology involves a dual￾drillstring or closed-loop flow circulation

system, top-drive adapter, dual-float valve,

and flow-control unit. It differs from con￾ventional drilling in the circulation flow

path of the drilling fluid, with the dual￾drillstring acting as a riser. During conven￾tional drilling, the drilling fluid returns to

surface via the wellbore annulus, whereas

in the new riserless drilling technique, the

fluid returns to surface via the inner pipe

of the dual drillstring. RDM is based on

pumping the drilling fluid into the dual

drillstring annulus through the top-drive

adapter and down to the dual-float valve at

the top of the conventional bottomhole as￾sembly. From the dual-float valve, cuttings

are transported back to surface inside the

innerstring, ensuring that the hole remains

clean at all times, the company said.

According to Reelwell, the system im￾proves offshore drilling safety because of its

ability to perform managed-pressure and

under-balanced drilling operations without

pressurized equipment on surface. More￾over, the design eliminates the potential

hazards from drilling with a riser in ultra￾deep water.

For more information about RDM-R,

visit Reelwell at booth 5241.

Drilling riser transport system

reducescost and risk

SBM Offshore has received an award for its

Drilling Riser Trip Saver technology. e

rail-mounted transport apparatus relocates

a suspended drilling riser with a drilling

riser tensioner system and surface BOP in

place. e technology can be used while

drilling multiple subsea wells consecu￾BY HART ENERGY STAFF

In Reelwell’s Riserless Drilling Method,

omitting the riser is possible using a dual￾drillstring to transport cutting to surface.

(Image courtesy of Reelwell)