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Coiled Tubing Drilling and Intervention Systems Using Cost Effective Vessel
The primary objective of this project is to provide the basis for detailed design of a cost-effective deepwater Coil Tubing (CT) system for downhole work in deep water Gulf of... -
Development of Advanced CFD Tools for the Enhanced Prediction of Explosion...
The objectives of the project was to provide oil and gas companies operating in the GOM with the tools necessary to design "inherently safer" offshore facilities that can... -
Reconciling top-down and bottom-up greenhouse gas and air pollutant emission...
The objective of the project is to provide the scientific and industrial communities with a tested, standardized research protocol for estimating methane emissions from onshore... -
Ultra-Deepwater Dry Tree System for Drilling and Production 2
Houston Offshore Engineering (HOE) has prepared designs, analysis and performed wind tunnel and wave tank tests of their proprietary Paired Column Semisubmersible to support dry... -
Ultra-Deepwater Dry Tree System for Drilling and Production in the Gulf of...
The primary objective of this project is to mature two concepts of very large floating systems that are suitable for drilling and production in up to 10,000-foot GOM Ultra-... -
Ultra-Deepwater Riser Concepts for High Motion Vessels
Vessel imposed motions affect the long-term integrity of riser systems on offshore floating facilities. This is amplified for vessels tagged as "high-motion" such as... -
Construction and Testing of Deepwater Permanent Subsea Pressure
The objective of the project was to develop a functional and qualified subsea chemical storage and injection system design with an effective 3,000 - barrel chemical storage... -
Lowering Drilling Cost, Improving Operational Safety, and Reducing...
The objective of the project was to undertake a comprehensive study of the cementing process applied in the Marcellus Shale play along with the effects of zonal isolation... -
Measurement of Hydrocarbon and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Uncharacterized...
This project will quantify emissions from uncharacterized area sources, including produced water evaporation ponds, land farms, areas with natural (and human-enhanced)... -
A Self-Teaching Expert System for the Analysis, Design and Prediction of Gas...
Develop a self-teaching expert system, available as a Web application/computer program, that is located on Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory servers and is distributable... -
Displacement & Mixing in Subsea Jumpers Experimental Data and CFD...
The objective of the project is to conduct an experimental and computational study of the mixing and displacement phenomena that take place during hydrate inhibition of jumper... -
Autonomous Inspection of Subsea Facilities Fact Sheet
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are becoming more capable and reliable. Implementation of AUV-based IRM in ultra-deepwater fields will provide game-changing improvements... -
Low Cost Flexible Production System for Remote Ultra-Deepwater Gulf of...
The objective of this project was to study the feasibility of a circular shaped floating platform unit as compared to two current FPU concepts, semi-sub, and spars. The floater... -
Evaluation of Fracture Systems and Stress Fields Within the Marcellus Shale...
The objective of the project is to use rock physics in combination with new seismic data-acquisition technologies based on cableless boxes and accelerated-weight and vector... -
Characterizing Stimulation Domains, for Improved Well Completions in Gas...
The objective of the project was to create an innovative user-friendly software prototype (called DomAnal) that can be used by operators to characterize flow properties of... -
Conductivity Of Complex Fracturing In Unconventional Shale Reservoirs
The objective of the proposed research was to conduct a systematic experimental study of fracture conductivity in shale oil and gas formations. The study focused on the... -
Ultra-Deepwater Resources to Reserves Development and Acceleration
The objective of the project is to facilitate the development of ultra-deepwater resources by developing techniques to assess the connectivity characteristics of deepwater... -
Design Investigation of Extreme High Pressure, High Temperature, (XHPHT),...
Regulations require the deployment of a SCSSV in Offshore wells. Current SCSSV designs are not available for XHPHT conditions. Rice University graduate students have been... -
Biogeochemical Factors Enhancing Microbially Generated Methane in Coalbeds
The project objective was to investigate microbial agents and their ability to convert coal into methane under in-situ conditions. The types of microbes, conversion rates and... -
Ultra-High Conductivity Umbilicals
The goal of this project is to develop an ultra-high conductivity power cable suitable for use in undersea umbilicals. The overall objective is to design, build, and test an...