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Home Improvements: Improving Your Existing Onshore Facilities
So, you've designed and constructed your onshore facility, and it's been operational for three or four years. The facility is operating well and producing (more or less) as expected, but the march of time does not stop. Systems degrade, personnel retire, and...
Offshore Training Centers Bring Added Value to the Entire Industry
The demand for a knowledgeable and experienced workforce has increased as signs of a brain drain in the offshore industry have become more apparent. And despite the recent downturn in oil prices and layoffs within the industry, the fact remains that a highly-trained...
How Can Offshore E&P Extend Its Long-term Value?
Over the last six months, companies in the exploration and production (E&P) sector have been taking a long, hard look at how they can improve their long-term value. This has largely been handled by means of consolidation and balance sheet improvement. However,...
Hurricane Season Spotlights Need for Preparedness Planning
As hurricane season gets closer, owners of offshore drilling platforms and transports are keeping a wary eye on short- and long-term weather forecasts and reassessing their emergency preparedness plans. Each season brings with it the potential for major damage to...
Quality Planning and Design Vital to Terminal and Storage Facilities
As major components of downstream oil and gas workflows, import, export, and storage terminals require thoughtful planning, design, and construction. These terminals act as waypoints for trucks, trains, boats, and pipelines to keep the flow of crude oil and...
GIS Data Makes Mapping and Other Operations Easier Across the Industry
In the oil and gas industry, exploration, project planning, drilling, and construction operations all require accurate geospatial, metrological, environmental, and seismic information to ensure the best possible outcomes of a project. In the early to mid-twentieth...
The Many Industry Benefits of 3D Laser Scanning
The survey, design, operation, improvement, and asset management of downstream facilities are complicated processes that have evolved with the advent of computing technology. The development of modeling software, process control software, and other automation tools...
Improving Offshore Production in ‘Lean’ Times
It's unavoidably true that offshore exploration and drilling companies — as well as the businesses that serve them — have been experiencing lean times lately, with contracts being shed and budgets being reduced. However, there's another type of "lean" that actually...