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.
June - July 2010 Issue
LEADERSPEAK
"We are scouting for younger fields, with proven oil and gas reserves that are in need of investments".....
Sudhir Vasudeva, Director (Offshore), ONGC started his career with this organization, as trainee in the same year when India’s hydrocarbon major had put the Mumbai High field into production .He is the oilman with extensive hands on experience in various E&P projects of the ONGC. When he took charge of his current position in February 2009, two main things that topped the agenda were to improve recoveries from Mumbai High and bring East Coast fields on stream at the earliest. In a free wheeling interview with Mittravinda Ranjan, he talks about various projects the company is working on and the strategy of the corporation to augment the hydrocarbon supplies in the country...
- Sudhir Vasudeva, Director (Offshore), ONGC
INTERVIEW
Powergas will play significant role in monetizing Indian hydrocarbon assets...
Sanjay Joshi is the Managing Director, Aker Powergas Pvt Ltd, India, the Indian arm of Aker Solutions. He is a chartered chemical engineer with extensive experience in upstream and downstream projects. He has held various positions in his professional career in engineering design, project management and business development. Joshi talks about the robust growth of oil and gas sector in the country and the role of the Indian arm in global operations of the group in a face to face interview with Mittravinda Ranjan...
- Sanjay Joshi, Managing Director, Aker Powergas Pvt Ltd
FEATURES
Seabed Processing Systems; Key to Unlock Hidden Deposits
Subsea field discoveries have rapidly increased over the past years. However, very high field development costs restrict the operators from exploiting the available resources. Siemens has developed power grids to address the challenges for the offshore industry to produce oil from marginally economic fields and unlock the potential of isolated fields...
- Bjoern Einar Brath
Using Laser Scans for Offshore Platforms
Complete information about as built plant status is critical for the EPC companies for revamps of old platforms. As compared to conventional methods of gathering the data, use of laser scanning technology in surveys results in generation of highly accurate data. This minimizes the overall cost by fast tracking on site data gathering without the necessity of plant shut downs. The authors have discussed various advantages of this technology for offshore platforms...
- Dr Heiko Hosse, Madanan Sankara Marar and Margarete Kreppert
Controlling Corrosion with PTFE Coatings for Fasteners used in Marine Environments
Offshore structures are used worldwide for a variety of functions and in a variety of water depths, and environments. The most commonly used offshore platforms are made of steel and are used for oil/gas exploration and production. The design and analyses of these offshore structures must be made in accordance with recommendations published by the American Petroleum Institute (API)...
- Kirtan R Dhami
Best Practices in Hazard and Operability Studies
Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOP) remains a very powerful tool in the armory of modern designers and engineers in minimizing hazard and operability related concerns from process plants in continuous as well as batch operations. In a world moving towards increased environmental awareness, HAZOP techniques will continue to find traditional as well as novel applications...
- Ram K Goyal and S Kugan
Managing Time for Professional Success
"The most important principle of corporate management is Time Management." - Thomas Watson, IBM. Time is the most precious resource. Few things are more important to us than learning how to manage time well. What is Time Management? Is it only making schedules or working faster? Often approaches to time management are very mechanistic...
- Nikhil Desai
India Steps on Shale Gas
Companies including Reliance Industries Limited (E&P), RNRL, and Genpact, have expressed interest in exploring for shale gas in India. Reliance Industries paid a reported USD 1.7 billion for a 40 percent share in Atlas
Energy’s leasehold in the Marcellus shale gas play in the eastern US. A complication to shale gas in India is that the government-issued leases for
conventional petroleum exploration do not include unconventional sources such as shale gas....
- Merly Simon
Cairn-ONGC Pipeline Operational
Commissioning of this crude oil pipeline marks a successful completion of a technological marvel in the Rajasthan project and would facilitate more cost-effective and augmented crude oil production directly accessing the buyers...
- Merly Simon
India Eyes BP's Hydrocarbon Assets in Vietnam
While BP is mulling to sell fields in Pakistan, Colombia, Venezuela and Vietnam to meet the USD 20 billion clean-up bill of the worst oil spill, India is eyeing to acquire company's assets in Vietnam. Murli Deora led Indian delegation for talks to Vietnam in July...
- Zafrus Salam
