... 1s drawn from the work of Petrodata Research whlch has been carrylng out analysls and forecasting in global offshore markets for more than 13 years NEW WARS, NEW WEAPONS The battle for shares of 011 company capltal spendlng In the offshore market In the decade to 2005 will be fought across...

... objectives became obvious as the work developed. To develop algorithms for delineating sediment boundaries from sidescan data records. To ensure these algorithms are robust and operate in real time on IBM PC compatible machines software whlch underwater vehlcle objective artificial...

... vehlcle trunkllne platform gooder auv mlsslon power source recovery operator cost remote marine operation technology autonomous underwater vehlcle vehicle veh cle whlch offshore operator upstream oil & gas subsea system wlth AN AUV FOR PIPELINE SURVEYS-THE NEXT STEP...

..., and to produce acceptable jolnts, ~t will contlnue to be used by the offshore Industry. At present, no facl l~t~es xlst for hyperbar~c weldlng research at depths sign~ficantly greater than 1000 metres. Cranfield IS currently commissioning a 250bar research facll~ty, whlch IS capable of undertaking s tud~es...

... ~ b and recess whlch form the seallng elements The connector 1s currently produced In slzes ranglng from 16 to 48" but larger and smaller diameters are possible There are over two thousand MerllnsTM In use and there 1s an exhaustwe history of testlng to draw on (F~gure 3 shows a plpe test plece w~th...

... in different chambers, glve very different perforn~ances These results suggest that investing large sums of money to design new unscramblers may be wasteful and much smaller Investments, whlch produce Integrated systems to s u ~ t he particular space In which each wlll be used, will glve much greater...

... the des~gn was Implemented and a summary of the expenence gamed during the ~nstallat~on The paper descnbes the changes to the CDTM process whlch reduced the slze of the fleet requlred to Install the bundle and outllnes the way In whlch parts of the lnstallat~on process were ach~eved remotely, w~thout he...

... nozzle cold cutting cutting durlng sequence cuttlng shell expro salm buoy removal hyperbaric centre buoy upstream oil & gas hub steel plate whlch subsea system track system fulmar salm buoy removal trolley application buoy removal FULMAR SALM BUOY REMOVAL...

... data, and the agillty and speed wlth whlch these can be assembled into a usable graphical form, and then manipulated. The use of a Digltal Terrain Model to vlsualise the seabed means that submarine pipelines can be designed much more accurately and subsequently monitored throughout then lives Indeed...

... Certlficates of Exemptlon Issued under the Dlvlng Operatlons at Work Regulatlons 198 1 and current attitudes to the use of Nltrox In ~n-shore commerc~al dlvlng GENERAL CERTIFICATES O F EXEMPTION By the lntroductlon of the Dlvlng Operatlons at Work Regulatlons 1981 (DOWR), whlch covered all commerc~al dlvlng...

...PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY FOR SUBSEA DEVELOPMENT WELLS S.D. GOMERSALL Marathon 011 UK Ltd Rublslaw Hlll Anderson Drlve Aberdeen AB2 4AZ ABSTRACT. Thls paper provldes a dlscusslon of the many polnts whlch should be consldered when plannlng the engineering aspects of subsea development wells. The multl...

... to the well stream In the export plpellne(s), whlle the water 1s thoroughly cleansed and released lnto the sea. To prevent the gas from freezlng In the plpellne, glycol 1s added. In addltlon, corroslon of the llne 1s lnhlblted by the glycol, whlch wlll be recovered at the processlng plant and returned...

... systcm dcslgn ~dent~flcs the cost effcctlve approach w~thout affcctlng thc SSIV rel~abll~ty After ~dent~fylng testlng, lnspectlon and maintenance requlremcnts, the papcr d~scusscs thc~r Impact on the des~gn Flnally, a conccptual dcslgn of a malntcnance framc 1s presented whlch should hclp In reduclng...

... operatlon operation sultablllty assessment wlth dp vessel trlal sultablllty vessel sultablllty safety assessment operator procedure audlt dp system guldellne whlch support vessel marine transportation dp audlt sltuatlon charterer ABSTRACT This paper looks back...

... operation compensator whlch SUBSEA SUPPORT VESSEL FOR THE NINETIES JENS CHR LINDAAS, KJARTAN VARTDAL, ARNFINN VIKA Stol t-N~lsen Seaway AIS PO Box 370 Stoltenberggt 1 5501 Haugesund ABSTRACT In t h ~ s paper Seaway's development project "Underwater Support Vessel for the 1990'1es" IS descr~bed...

... to carry out repalr and maintenance to qulte sophisticated electronic equipment on the deck of a heaving vessel In a severe storm, can challenge the sklll and patlence of the most quallf led and experienced Technlclan. Ocean Currents The buslness end of an ROV system IS basically a vehlcle whlch IS able...

... receptacle electrical industrial apparatus provlde thl redundancy electrical connector connector deslgn tolerance rov provlslon lt 1 utlllse requirement matlng force whlch connectlon rov mateable connector stab plate wlth ROV OPERATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR D B PYE TRONIC...

...AN END T O DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS? A NEW APPROACH T O THE DECOMPRESSION DISORDERS T J R FRANCIS, D J SMITH and J J W SYKES hsrrrure of Naval Medrcrne Alversroke Gosport Hampshrre PO12 2DL England ABSTRACT The current classlficatlon of the decompress~on d~sorders, from whlch our dlagnost~c "labels...

..., whlch employs a sw~tch to a hellum and oxygen m~xture and oxygen dur~ng decompress~on The safety of the table has been val~dated using two types of ultrasonic monltor~ng 1 Introduction The problem of neurologlcal decompress~on slckness In the air range has now been acknowledged In the U K and act...

... photograph information whlch deo camera processlng system real time photogrammetry personal computer stereo technlque turner lmage real time system pixel photogrammetnc camera processing system storage wlth software photogrammetry REAL TIME PHOTOGRAMMETRY - A TECHNIQUE...