Offshore World is an all-encompassing magazine for the hydrocarbon and allied industries. A quarterly magazine launched in December 2003, Offshore World disseminates authentic, critical and well-researched information on global hydrocarbon industry innovations.
The magazine offers latest and strategic information on the upstream and downstream hydrocarbon industry. The endeavour of Offshore World is to become a vehicle in making "Hydrocarbon Vision 2025" a reality in terms of technologies, markets and new directions, and to stand as a medium of reflection of the achievements and aspirations of Indian hydrocarbon industry.
The magazine extensively covers technological advances, reviews & forecasts, new products, processes & solutions, upcoming projects, market trends, R&D, events, products review, book review, industry surveys, environment management, news & views, interviews, awards, outstanding performance by individuals & organizations, case studies and practice oriented and well researched articles and features by industry experts.
April - May 2010 Issue
VIEWPOINT
Gearing Up for the Future Challenge!
India's hydrocarbon potential remains vastly unexplored, with only 22 percent of its sedimentary basin area being well explored. The dgh have institutionalized a very systematic licensing round and the eight successful nelp rounds have increased the intensity of domestic exploration activities and also the participation of Indian private sector and select international players in exploration activities in India. This has in turn led to increased private investment in the sector in recent years. Although a number of significant discoveries have been made during the past six - seven years, increased efforts are required to unlock India's untapped Hydrocarbon potential...
- Rahul Dhir,
Managing Director and CEO, Cairn India
FEATURES
Exploring India's Sedimentary Basins
Energy safety is amid the primarily stern apprehension for the countries all over the world and more precise to emerging nation like India. Within the existing circumstances the key driver for energy augmentation appears to be exploration efforts in Indian sedimentary basins...
- S.K. Srivastava, DG, DGH
Growth Drivers for Energy Security for Decade
Energy Security is the major alarm for a rapidly growing country. India necessitates an additional decade or two for this incredible augmentation to be in the league of urbanized nations. Energy is the driver for the growth engine as well as for constant expansion persistent energy contribution is mandatory...
- DK Pande, Exploration (ONGC)
Blood is Thicker than Gas
The Supreme Court ruling closes a chapter on a high profile feud between two Ambani borthers Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani that could set the tone for the country's policy on gas pricing and aloocation...
- Zafrus Salam
Indian Gas Transmission Business
Gas supplies are expected to be more than double in the next five years in India. Well developed infrastructure of transmission pipe lines is necessary to support demand supply chain. Positive results from NELP rounds and new gas discoveries in the country have generated significant interest among various industry players in gas transmission business...
- Revati Kasture
New Drilling Techniques Yield Positive Results in Russia.
New technologies are making way into the field of E&P activities. Oilmen are more open to trying out innovative technologies to increase production. At TNK Uvat Fields, the geologists have tried new commingled technology and achieved success. Russia has sourced this technology from abroad and being novel technology very few companies have used so far.Commingled production has yielded good production results in Ethiopia and Ecudor...
- T N K - Uvat
Emerging Trends in Riser Technologies
As a consequence of increasing energy demand, field developments have significantly increased in the areas with hostile environments. Field developments across the globe utilize different riser systems. Hariharan discusses solutions to handle riser challenges at different water depths...
- Madhu Hariharan
Enhanced Laser Diode Spectroscopy Design for High Integrity Gas Detection Applications
Operators of gas detection systems used in safety-critical applications in the hydrocarbon processing, petrochemical and other industries are increasingly looking for rugged fixed, open path (line-ofsite) gas detectors featuring high safety integrity with low levels of maintenance and total cost of ownership Enhanced Laser Diode Spectroscopy™ (ELDS™) is a unique class of laser diode spectroscopy that includes techniques for increasing sensitivity and reliability for gas detection applications. The design of an open path gas detection (OPGD) system with ELDS can meet industry requirements for high safety integrity and low maintenance with two proprietary ELDS techniques: harmonic fingerprints and automatic functional testing of gas detectors...
- Lee Richman
Silicone in the Oil and Gas Industry
Silicone is a class of specialty chemicals that have unique properties that result from its origins at the frontier of inorganic and organic chemistry. This paper describes the nature of silicone and the physical and chemical properties that make it unique. The relationship and utilization of these properties to applications throughout the petroleum production and refining chain are discussed in the paper...
- Dow Corning Corporation
Demanding Performance Requirements
of Oil and Gas Industry Require
Careful Safety System Selections
Asset and system availability along with process uptime are more critical than ever in the oil and gas industry. At today’s high fuel prices, each minute of uptime counts. Any disruption of the supply chain creates a strain in the market and puts companies at risk for incurring substantial downtime losses...
- Rockwell Automation
Managing the Shipping Carriers
Tanker management is just not a profession but passion for Capt. Mohan Naik, General Manager, Dynacom Tankers Management. The company is headquartered in Athens and set up its Indian operations around 18 years back under his leadership. The company operates one of the biggest fleets of carriers for the oil & gas industry. He shared his views on few of the concerned issues in a candid conversation...
- Capt Mohan Naik, General Manager, India
Tapping the Unconventional Gas Sources
Gas hydrates is described as a very large global reservoir of natural gas, estimated to contain more organic carbon than all other known fossil fuel. The worldwide amount of methane in gas hydrates is about twice the amount of carbon held in all fossil fuels on earth and is considered to contain at least 1x104 gigatons of carbon in a very conservative estimate...
- Merly Simon
Two Down In Three Weeks
About sixty percent of world’s energy need is met through hydrocarbons. Drilling oil and gas wells in deepwater is risky and costly process. Time and again, the hydrocarbon industry has witnessed accidents that have not only resulted in huge financial losses but also had a deep impact on the environment...
- OSW Team
