Longer, deeper, colder

摘要

As oil and gas companies push the limits in terms of water depths and remote locations, the challenge of developing technologies and practices that can lower huge upfront costs is being met collaboratively through joint industry initiatives and technology partnerships around the world. Deepwater and ultra-deepwater E&P activities mainly carried out until recently in the established "Golden Triangle" of West Africa, Brazil, and the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) are being rapidly expanded by operators and contractors to include emerging remote frontiers offshore East Africa, the eastern Mediterranean, Northwest Australia, and Southeast Asia. There also is a large crossover in terms of the same deep-water technologies and solutions being potentially applicable to harsh environment areas such as the Arctic and sub-Arctic.