
Blake Wright
Freelance Writer and Editor at Freelance
Technology Editor at Journal of Petroleum Technology
Articles
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1 week ago |
jpt.spe.org | Blake Wright
Offshore construction specialist Allseas has unveiled a 5-year plan to begin using nuclear power via integration of small modular reactors (SMR) both on land and aboard its vessel fleet. SMRs are advanced nuclear reactors that have a power capacity of up to 300 MW(e) per unit—about one-third of the generating capacity of traditional nuclear reactors—and can produce a significant amount of low-carbon electricity.
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2 weeks ago |
jpt.spe.org | Blake Wright
Newly minted owner of veteran floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Petrojarl I Amplus Energy, headquartered in Aberdeen, has tapped Spain’s Astican Shipyard in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to carry out a multimillion-dollar reactivation program on the unit. The acquisition of the FPSO from UK-based Altera Infrastructure was announced in February of this year and just recently closed. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal marked Amplus Energy’s entry into the FPSO market.
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2 weeks ago |
jpt.spe.org | Blake Wright
The Pacific Energy Corp.-led Woodfibre LNG project reached a major construction milestone with the safe arrival of the first seven LNG modules to the facility site. The hardware delivered comprises pipe rack modules transported by heavy cargo vessel Biglift Baffin and are the first large-scale modular components to arrive at the site for installation. Woodfibre LNG CEO Luke Schauerte called the arrival of the modules “a significant step forward” in diversifying Canada’s energy export market.
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2 weeks ago |
jpt.spe.org | Blake Wright
If you want to catch a wily mouse, you need to build a better mouse trap. If you want to tap into increasingly more difficult reservoirs in the search for oil and gas, you need to drill a better well. When it comes to global hydrocarbon reserves, the low-hanging fruit was picked over years ago. What’s left and available for exploration is generally ultradeep, super-hot, overpressured, or some combination of that trio.
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3 weeks ago |
jpt.spe.org | Blake Wright
Rising global demand for FPSOs has prompted contractor BW Offshore to acquire the FPSO Nganhurra, one of very few capable floating production storage and offloading vessels not working.
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