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GE opens Iraq facility Regional security situation continues to deteriorate Sealing solutions for pipeline expansion joints Determining valve reliability and performance Customised corrosion protection solutions Oil firms base decisions on ‘untrustworthy data’

Is the gas pipeline industry out of its depth?

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Contents Columns

Exhibition Preview 4

Industry news and executives’ calendar

Analysis 10

Regional Security

The security situation in the region is continuing on a downward spiral, says our special correspondent.

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Project Profile

Basra International Oil and Gas Hub (BIOGH) has entered into a joint venture agreement with the Iraqi Free Zone Authority to establish a free zone for oil and gas service companies at the Khor Al Zubair Port. The zone will be completed in five phases.plo

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SOGAT 2013

New sour gas field exploitation is focused on but not limited to the Middle East given the many interesting activities taking place in North and South America, Russia, Central Asia and the Far East. The forthcoming SOGAT event will tackle the latest issues.

Offshore Mediterranean 2013 (OMC)

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‘Charting a course’ is the appropriately nautical theme for this year’s Offshore Mediterranean Conference. With Libya back on stream the sea unites a wide region with huge potential.

Technical Focus 40

Innovations Introducing some of the latest technology for the oil and gas sector.

Exploration & Production 18

Iraq Are IOCs taking too many risks in Iraq?

ration & Production

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Pipelines Does pipeline supply of gas at extreme depths have to be limited to high priced, specially made and very thick pipes?

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Corrosion Protection

Gas 22

Interview

Rashid Al-Jarwan, Executive Director and Acting CEO of Dana Gas discusses the outlook for the regional gas market, including the latest developments in Egypt and Iraq.

Dr. Daniel Keßler, Deputy Business Segment Manager TIP TOP Oberflaechenschutz Elbe GmbH, a REMA TIP TOP Group company, on the subject of corrosion protection and its necessity

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Offshore Equipment Offshore Solutions has expanded its OAS operations in Qatar.

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Valves & Actuators

Petrochemicals & Refining 30

Developments The latest news from the regional petrochemicals and refining markets.

The importance of force friction ratio in determining valve reliability and performance in the energy sector.

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Pipeline Expansion Joints

Interview with Sherwin Damdar, whose current role is project leader for Garlock Sealing Technologies elastomer expansion joint division.

Communications & IT

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Analysis

Managing Editor: David Clancy

A survey undertaken by Oracle Corporation has revealed that close to 50 per cent of oil executives have been making decicions based on data they don’t trust.

Editorial and Design team: Bob Adams, Lizzie Carroll, Andrew Croft, Ranganath GS, Kasturi Gupta,

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Editor’s note OUR COVER STORY this issue asks whether the gas pipeline industry is out of its depth. Does pipeline supply of gas at extreme depths have to be limited to high priced, specially made and very thick pipes? Not necessarily, says our special correspondent, who discusses a new approach to deepwater pipeline supply that adapts some existing technologies and, potentially, cuts costs — without undermining safety standards. The thorny issue of the deteriorating regional security situation is covered from page 10. Our analyst says new frontier regions in other parts of the world could benefit from the volatility.

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Investcorp acquires oil field services firm Hydrasun BAHRAIN-BASED INVESTCORP HAS agreed to buy a controlling stake in Scottish oil field services provider Hydrasun from Equistone Partners Europe Limited.

The company did not disclose the size of the stake or the value.

Mohammed Al-Shroogi, Investcorp's president for the Gulf business, said, "We are excited about acquiring a leading company in a resilient and rapidly growing segment of the oil and gas sector. We believe that Hydrasun is well positioned to continue its growth."

Hydrasun is specifically engaged in the integration, manufacture and testing of hydraulic equipment and fluid connectors for the offshore oil and gas sector. Its products and services are mainly used across the offshore oil and gas sector with further application in the petrochemical sector. The company employs around 600 personnel.

Bob Drummond, chief executive of Hydrasun, said, "We are delighted to partner with Investcorp given their previous success in investing in the international oil and gas sector coupled with their global network and deep rooted heritage in the Gulf. We believe this transaction will enable us to continue to grow organically and pursue strategic acquisitions to further accelerate our international footprint."

Al-Shroogi added, "This acquisition is the result of a continuous effort to bridge international companies with expansion plans in the Gulf's growing oil and gas sector. Hydrasun represents an opportunity for us to fulfill our mandate from our investment partners in the Investcorp Gulf Opportunity Fund."

Saudi Arabia and Japan agree emergency oil deal JAPAN AND SAUDI Arabia have signed an agreement that allows Japan to make emergency requests for additional supplies of crude oil from Saudi Arabia.

Under the agreement, a telephone hotline would be set up between the two governments, allowing Japan to quickly seek additional oil supplies in the event of extraordinary circumstances such as a spike in the price of oil, according to Japan's Nikkei.

The amount of oil Japan is very oil import-dependent which could be sought

by Japan has not been disclosed. Nor did it specify on what terms Japan would be able to secure more oil nor whether a request for emergency supplies would be binding on Riyadh.

Saudi Arabia currently pumps approximately 9.05mn bpd and says that it has the ability to produce up to 12.5mn bpd if needed.

Japan has grown increasingly reliant on fossil fuels since the Fukushima nuclear disaster, which has led to the shutdown of most of the resource-poor country's nuclear power plants.

The deal represents a significant increase in co-operation between Japan, which is one of the world’s largest oil importers, and Saudi Arabia, which has been listed as the top producer in the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

Saudi Arabia signed a deal with Japan in June to store 3.8mn barrels of crude in the Asian nation's Okinawa Oil Base.

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GE Oil & Gas opens new facility in Iraq GE Oil & Gas has established a new technology and service centre near Basra City that brings the latest GE technology and expertise to local customers to help boost production in the Rumaila oilfield.

The facility will function as a base for the supply of pressure control equipment to Iraq’s drilling and production sector. The center will also provide a wide range of services including installation and maintenance, testing, inspections, repair and storage. Future services will include complete nondestructive testing capabilities, machine, welding and heat treatment, blasting and painting and API certification and recertification.

Rami Qasem, president and chief executive officer for the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey of GE Oil & Gas, said, “The new Basra center provides a broad spectrum of solutions under one roof and is situated locally to meet our customers’ demands for rapid drilling and production support."

The continued development of Rumaila is a key to Iraq’s long-term economic growth and more than 250 production wells are currently operating in the field. The oil produced from the field represents about 40 per cent of Iraq’s total oil production.

"Through our investment in strengthening our local presence, we are able to significantly improve our delivery time for products and services, while also giving us a base for training and developing a local work force," he added.

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OPEC output rises CRUDE OIL OUTPUT from OPEC countries increased in February, the first monthly increase since October, according to a Reuters and Bloomberg survey.

Supply from OPEC countries was 30.3mn bpd, up from 30.21mn bpd in January, the Reuters survey showed. The Bloomberg’s survey noted that OPEC output increased by 97,000 barrels to an average 30.69mn bpd in February from a revised 30.60mn last month.

Saudi Arabia boosted supply to market by 100,000 bpd in February according to the Reuters survey, to 9.2mn bpd. It had cut output sharply in the last two months of 2012, and again in January.

According to the survey by Bloomberg, Libyan output increased 130,000 barrels to 1.24mn bpd in February, showing the biggest gain of any OPEC member. The rise in production was due to the reopening of the country’s Zueitina export terminal early last month.

Iraq, the world's fastest-growing exporter, also increased supply.

But crude exports from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq were restrained by the dispute between the central government and the Kurdistan region over payments.

Iran experienced further supply decreases, which saw its crude exports fall in January to around 1.1mn bpd from a post-sanctions high of at least 1.4mn bpd in the previous month. Exports slipped further in February as well, the Reuters survey showed. Iran was OPEC’s biggest producer after Saudi Arabia a year ago but is now tied in sixth place.

Algeria was another OPEC country that saw a cut in production by 70,000 barrels to 1.13mn barrels a day in February, the least since May 2003, stated the Bloomberg report.

Gulf countries also saw a rise in supply, according to the Bloomberg report. The UAE and Kuwait saw output bolstered in February. The UAE increased production by 50,000 barrels a day to 2.65mn last month. Kuwaiti output climbed 50,000 barrels a day to 2.95mn, the biggest rise since September 2012.

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Iraq passes 2013 budget despite boycott THE IRAQI PARLIAMENT passed the country's 2013 budget, allocating US$650mn of central government payments to companies working in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, a fraction of the US$$3.5bn the Kurdistan Regional Government

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(KRG) had asked for.

Ibrahim Al-Mutlaq, a member of the parliamentary finance committee, was quoted by Reuters as saying that Kurdish lawmakers had boycotted the session which led to the passing of the budget.

The KRG claims that the US$3.5bn it requested includes outstanding payments covering all exports between 2010 and 2013.

The budget decision adds to existing tensions between the Kurdish region and Baghdad over

oil exploration rights, the redevelopment of oil fields in a disputed territory. The dispute over the payment of oil revenues has already led to the suspension of crude oil exports from the Kurdish region since December.

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Despite a loosened oil market, security in the region continues on a downward spiral.

Independent oil analyst, Samuel Ciszuk surveys the scene.

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HILE OIL MARKETS are shifting focus from last year’s preoccupation with perceived market tightness the fragility of the physical and political security situation in the Middle East and North Africa seems to be on the increase. Waves in the aftermath of the 2011 uprisings continue to roll across the region, raising unpredictability, while states find it increasingly hard to protect vital installations amid domestic and international challenges to their security forces.

The overall story has shifted in the global oil markets in Q1 of 2013. Oil prices have continued to hold up, but unlike last year, when the focus and fear was for market tightness, it is Saudi production cuts, counterbalancing a loosened supply and demand balance, which have underpinned oil prices.

Underlying risks The improved supply and demand balance has led the market actors to relax somewhat about security issues, although it is not escaping market watchers that the underlying risks remain high.

Indeed, while talk about the risk for a large conflagration between Iran and the US or Israel, has diminished so far this year, the underlying risks connected to the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme remain the same, while elsewhere direct threats to stability - and the oil and gas sector in particular - seem to proliferate.

Saudi Arabia, OPEC’s swing producer, again has a more substantial spare capacity ready to compensate for eventual crude production disruptions elsewhere. This tends to mean that industry risk issues to a lesser degree make it onto news headlines. That does however not mean that industry actors are in an improved position, whether NOCs from large producers, or IOCs working in the region, in one shape or another.

Outages Looking across the MENA region, three overarching security issues, all with a bearing on the oil and gas industry, stand out: Iran continues to be a problem, with sanctions hurting its economy and shutting more than one million barrels per day of its production capacity; Syria is sinking ever deeper into civil war and sectarian violence, keeping all neighbours on their toes and creating some severe instability spill-over; and Libya largely remains a in power vacuum, particularly from a security point of view, at a time when Islamist militants active in the Sahel region are relocating given the Western military

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Recent events at In Amenas drew Algeria into the circle of high-risk areas

Looking further east, the Syrian civil war is in itself creating only a limited impact on oil and gas production support to Mali’s government. These three main areas of concern have all in some ways deepened since 2012.

The increased room for manoeuvre Saudi Arabia has today, after throttling back on its production to just more than nine million bpd from 10mn bpd in mid-2012 is only a partial consolation. It means that significant further outages can be compensated by the kingdom, however it does not resolve anything with regards to the long-term instability to both the market’s production and risk calculations, as well as the industry’s own operational worries.

workers and damaged two of the complex’ three one billion cubic metres (bcm) capacity gas trains, which still remain offline.

The attack raised the North African region’s threat levels to new heights, as it drew in Algeria into the circle of high-risk areas, despite the country’s history of very successfully protecting its oil and gas installations, even during its bloody civil war in the 1990s. Operations in Algeria were seen as fairly safe, given its army’s capabilities and the inaccessibility and remoteness of its oil and gas fields in the Sahara desert.

Over the past decades, it was the national HQ and government relations operations of oil companies in Algeria, naturally located in Algiers, which were seen as high risk, due to the country’s problems with Islamist insurgents. This problem tended to be fairly urban in its nature and thereby confined to its cities and the densely populated countryside in its north. It was not spilling into its oil regions.

Offline The latter again came into focus in January, with the attack by militant Islamists on Algeria’s BPoperated In Amenas gas field. The attack and following hostage situation tragically killed 38

Overshadowed In Amenas was partly triggered and directly connected to the French-led intervention in Algeria’s southern neighbour Mali, repulsing a

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historically fractioned relations with its large Palestinian minority.

Main concern

Improved security has been adopted at many of the region’s oil, gas and petrochemical installations

Saudi Arabia, OPEC’s swing producer, again has a more substantial spare capacity ready to compensate for eventual crude production disruptions elsewhere successful militant Islamist takeover of much of that country’s north and centre. Piggybacking and then upstaging a long-standing rebellion among Mali’s northern Tuareg population, al-Qaidarelated elements were able to create a safe haven in a large swathe of the sparsely populated Malian hinterland.

As they suddenly were being forced to relocate, a spill over into Libya, where the central power remains very weak vis-à-vis local and regional tribal and political militias, seemed inevitable, but was overshadowed in media reports by the daring In Amenas raid.

It has later transpired that the In Amenas attacks were staged from across the Libyan border, underlining the new nature of the threat and exposing a new (long and hard-to-monitor) frontier for the Algerian’s to try to control. To complicate matters, there is no buffer region of hundreds of kilometres of empty desert and mountains between oil and gas installations and the border with Libya, as is the case with the southern border with Mali. Still, the In Amenas attack, while opening a new 'threat-frontier', took a lot of specific planning and cost the militants a significant amount of manpower and resources, which might mean that, given the Algerian security forces’ capabilities, other attacks might not follow immediately, making this more of a one-off, rather than a wave.

Potential bastions For Libya, this is less likely. The central government remains fragmented and largely unable to build the strong institutions the country would need, but which the former regime, under leader Muammar Qadhafi, kept it deprived of.

That means that a Libya increasingly infiltrated by

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al-Qaida-affiliated elements and awash with weapons in the wake of the 2011 uprising and civil war, easily could deteriorate into a situation similar to Mali’s, threatening the oil and gas production in the country.

The only potential bastions against the Islamists are the different armed tribal groups and militias across the country, but should the political process in the country flounder, rivalries between those groups - already so evident albeit still largely non-violent - could easily be exploited and hijacked by militants. As history far too often has showed, such deteriorating situations often benefit the most violent and extreme force, as it can start to look as a security guarantor to the civil population, particularly where there is a lack of credible protection from the government.

Investment programme The Libyan situation is further complicated by a deteriorating security and governance situation in Tunisia and Egypt, the other two countries seeing systemic political changes during the Arab spring.

The potential existence of a militant safe haven between Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria means that oil and gas companies will have to up their security planning and spending between Egypt’s Western Desert play, Tunisia’s onshore acreage and Algeria’s eastern Ghadames and Illizi basins.

As for Libya, where the threat levels must be said to have risen markedly across the whole of the country, investment programmes - barely restarted during 2012- are already being reconsidered.

Looking further east, the Syrian civil war is in itself creating only a limited impact on oil and gas production, as the country is a relatively small oil and gas producer and only a marginal oil exporter.

It is however located in the middle of one of the world’s most sensitive areas, given its ties to the Israel-Palestine conflict (not to mentions Syria’s own conflict with Israel), it remains heavily involved with and tied to several of Lebanon’s political factions, including the Hezbollah movement, as well as the Kurdish regional dilemma and some of Iraq’s Western Sunni tribes.

Syrian instability is also permanently threatening to spill over into Jordan and infect its

Iraq however remains the main concern from an oil and gas industry point of view, even though Lebanon might be the country most easily drawn into a civil war-like situation. The Kurdish ties to Syria, means that the hitherto most stable part of Iraq could potentially be either drawn in, or see its relationship with the both Iraq’s Shi’a dominated government, or the Sunni minority being complicated by events outside of Iraq.

Despite the autonomous region’s recent success in mending fences with Turkey and raising hopes for bilateral Turkish-Iraqi Kurdistan oil and gas export pipelines, it is clear that Kurdish militancy in Syria and its spill over into Turkey has spooked some parts of the Turkish political establishment, threatening to derail the region’s recent progress.

The spill over of militancy is however more visible in the Sunni population in Iraq. New regional flows of weapons have come at a time of boiling political - and largely sectarian- dissatisfaction with the central government and this is visible in recent levels of violence.

For oil companies this is a worry and it comes at a time of increasing IOC dissatisfaction with Iraqi investment terms and failures to cut red tape.

Working to tight upstream project deadlines, with potentially severe penalties, oil companies are frustrated by the government’s inability to lift hurdles largely caused by its bureaucracy.

As many oil companies are approaching the second phases of their investment programmes at the projects awarded in 2009-2010, there is reason to be somewhat pessimistic over their willingness to fulfil contracts without significant Iraqi fiscal concessions, something which looks unlikely given the current political deadlock.

Sanctions Over all this swerves the Iranian problem and its potential to escalate to a regional crisis. While recent months have seen a renewed willingness to negotiate, there is little expectation that any results will be produced until after the presidential elections in June. Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, will hope to have cleared the playing field of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and his allies, in order to better control the overall message communicated both externally and internally. In the meantime Iran’s economy is sinking deeper and deeper into the malaise caused by sanctions, making both the electorate and the political elite’s actions less predictable, should the desperation start to visibly grow - for good or for bad.

The global oil market has a greater redundancy this year than last year, which is of an immediate comfort, but for oil and gas companies - and in the longer run consumers- the underlying challenges and changes in the Middle East and North Africa have not been as hard to predict and as potentially fast-moving for decades, to the likely benefit of unconventional upstream plays and new frontier regions in other parts of the world. n www.oilreview.me

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Port of Khor Al Zubair

Analysis

BIOGH's International Oil and Gas Free Zone will be the only oil and gas free zone in Iraq and Oil Review heard from the company looking to set up the new free zone and DLA Piper who advised on the deal.

Iraq’s oil and gas logistics centre

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ASRA INTERNATIONAL OIL and Gas Hub Limited (BIOGH), which is a private company, has entered into a joint venture with the Iraqi Free Zone Authority, an independent authority that is part of the Ministry of Finance to establish a free zone for oil and gas service companies at the Khor Al Zubair port.

BIOGH is located within the major oil and gas production area of Southern Iraq and the four super giant oilfields Rumaila, Zubair, West Qurna, and Majnoon are all close by.

Richard Cotton, head of marketing & leasing at Basra Oil & Gas Free Zone stated, “The Basra International Oil and Gas Free Zone is the first oil and gas free zone to be developed in Iraq.”

The joint venture is effective for 50 years, but after 25 years the revenue share between BIOGH and the Free Zone Authority changes.

BIOGH aims to be similar to the largest free zone for the hydrocarbon sector, which is the Onne zone in Nigeria Cotton said that BIOGH Ltd has signed a development management agreement with EPGI, a global real estate, construction and infrastructure development specialist, to deliver the project.

“EPGI will manage the global systems integration, shared facilities, amenities, and public service components,” he added.

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Salem Chalabi, the head of the Iraq Practice at DLA Piper, the law firm that advised on the deal, described how the deal came about with the help of a little known Iraqi free zone law, enacted in 1998, that established free zones in a number of places in Iraq, including one in Khor Al Zubair.

"We entered into negotiations with the Ministry of Finance and the Free Zone Authority and negotiations took quite a long time as they had never done anything like this. Previously they had dealt with small free zone projects that included no infrastructure and the intention here was to build a big development, almost the size of a town. This is the uniqueness of this project," he noted.

BIOGH aims to be similar to the largest free zone for the hydrocarbon sector, which is the Onne zone in Nigeria according to Salem Chalabi.

Land for logistical operations in Iraq has been difficult to find and the opportunity offered by BIOGH could have a real importance in the growth of the oil and gas sector in Southern Iraq.

"Our clients thought it would be great to do a deal with South Oil Company (SOC) to actually develop the free zone for the purpose of bringing in oil and gas logistic operations and the model of this is a place called Onne in Nigeria," remarked Chalabi.

SOC has been one of the main supporters of the zone, which has been crucial in getting the project off the ground, as the state-owned oil company appeared to prefer focusing on its principal upstream activities, according to Chalabi.

"They have leased some land in the past but the demand is so high they have been looking at new ways to offer logistic space," he added.

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Size and scope The zone will be completed in five phases and will extend over 11 sq-km; the zone will comprise mixed-use industrial, logistics, oil and gas storage, commercial and residential accommodation and customs.

Cotton said that it has been estimated that BIOGH will employ approximately 10,000-15,000 Iraqi nationals over an initial period of 12 years.

Connecting the many facilities within the project will be an important task and transportation will be provided for the tenants within the Free Zone, which will be supported by a network of service roads. The main access road network from the Basra International Free Zone will provide excellent connections to the adjacent shipping port of Khor Al Zubair, local airports including Basra International Airport, the city of Basra, and other strategic centres in Iraq and surrounding regions.

"The critical thing with this free zone is that it will take a significant amount of investment and there has been a lot of interest from the oil companies, because being a free zone they can import their material free from customs and store it there," said Chalabi.

Cotton remarked, “There has been serious interest from a mixture of truly global oil and gas tenants, large and small, who are either working in Iraq or who have researched the country and are now wishing to begin operations and recognize the economic and operational advantages of being on a third party managed facility.”

The BIOGH Public Private Partnership with the Free Zone Authority will assist in enabling the latter’s ambition to provide the appropriate facilities within a Free Trade Zone for international companies to facilitate and optimise this significant increase in production capability.

Iraq has potentially the world’s second largest oil reserves and is currently the world’s third largest oil exporter. Iraq is looking to spend over billions of dollars on oil and gas infrastructure to increase production from the current three million bpd to a desired nine million bpd by 2020.

“This translates into significant financial rewards for tenants at the Basra International Oil and Gas Free Zone including no capital gains or corporate taxes, and free repatriation of capital and profit,“ argued Cotton.

"Our client has to develop the infrastructure and they will enter into a large number of leases (in the form of sub-development agreements) with oil companies and oil service companies and manufacturing companies all to supply the oil sector," Chalabi stated.

Cotton added, “The programme for the Basra International Oil and Gas Free Zone will be tenant driven: land parcels will be leased on a long term basis and tenants will have the opportunity to erect purpose-built structures and facilities to their desired specification and needs.”

On-line enquiries and interest for BIOGH are currently running at around 2,500 hits per week from all the major oil and gas world centres

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The service contracts in the South have quite a stringent ramp up process and the new free zone is meant to aid in building up the logistic private sector dimension of the oil and gas sector.

Exposure Cotton explained that BIOGH has worked over the past four years to successfully maximise the financial incentives and competitive advantages it can offer new tenants and residents.

“The core offerings to our tenants will be our biggest promotional tool,” noted Cotton.

Strategic benefits include the option of 100 per cent ownership in any business venture without the need for local partners within the development, all international imports and exports, including all imported machinery, equipment and raw materials, will be exempted from customs duties, and the project will have its own dedicated customs and administration facilities “BIOGH has built a dedicated and experienced in-house marketing and leasing team based in London, New York, Dubai and Basra, and supported by external agencies to ensure global exposure,” he pointed out.

Cotton said on-line enquiries and interest are currently running at around 2,500 hits per week from all the major oil and gas world centres.

In conclusion Chalabi, argued that, "Infrastructure for the oil sector is where the next really big focus will be and our client is aggressively making plans for the country's first oil and gas free zone."■

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In a bold public statement, the chairman of Iraq’s parliamentary oil and energy committee, Adnan Al-Janabi, criticised the central government for its lack of will in pushing ahead a unified oil law fearing that international oil companies are risking "work in a legal vaccum" in Iraq.

Are IOCs taking too many risks

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T IS TELLING that Iraq’s top parliamentarian in charge of resolving the stalemate surrounding the country’s oil legislation is dispirited by the government’s inaction on the matter.

Janabi's warning that international oil companies are operating in a legal vacuum in Iraq will cause further concerns amongst investors regarding their contractual arrangements and raises questions over Iraq’s long-term oil production.

At the heart of the dispute is Baghdad’s struggle with the assertive Kurdistan Region in the north; with or without a national oil law, however, both sides are entrenched in their positions, widening the gap between the two administrations with no agreement on a national oil law in sight. Meanwhile, the KRG continues its independent energy policy based on its own oil law enacted in 2007.

Yet, while Al-Janabi is right in stating that the lack of a unified oil law may have created legal risks for IOCs operating in federal Iraq, it has not discouraged companies from renewing contractual terms with the central government (i.e. the negotiations over the reduction of production plateau targets agreed between LUKoil, ENI, BP, and Shell and Baghdad are a case in point).

Neither has the missing oil law put off companies from investing in the Kurdistan Region thus far.

Consequences However, IOCs will need to question themselves over the possible consequences of dealing with two different contractual and legal models in Iraq, of which the deals in the Kurdistan Region are ultimately not recognised by the central government.

Will oil deals in the Kurdistan Region be considered valid in international arbitration tribunals and are there risks to service contracts signed in federal Iraq given that there are not based on a national oil law? Adnan Al-Janabi’s concerns over the lack of a national oil law are valid. The impasse in finding a national law will remain a risk for IOCs operating in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region – particularly if things go wrong.

Will oil deals in the Kurdistan Region be considered valid in international arbitration tribunals?

In the case of any expulsion, expropriation or other major disagreement between IOCs and the government in which either side faces a commercial loss of some sorts, taking a case to international arbitration tribunal would be problematic given the lack of reference to a national hydrocarbons law.

Yet, aside from legal concerns and risks for IOCs, Al-Janabi’s finger-pointing has to be analysed in the context of a deterioration of relations between the KRG and Baghdad.

Despite an ongoing oil-for-money payment dispute, military tensions in disputed areas south of Kirkuk province, and Baghdad’s repeated threats to expel companies from federal Iraq (such as ExxonMobil from West Qurna-1) because of their simultaneous involvement in the Kurdistan Region, the KRG has become more assertive in pushing its own energy-policy agenda.

Essential In the absence of a national oil law, the KRG has managed to push its policy ahead. There are three key driving forces at play: first, the KRG’s insistence on political autonomy as a federal region with the right to explore and export oil independently and a guarantee to share revenues with the federal government as per its own Kurdistan Region oil law enacted in 2007; second,

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The absence of a national oil law means the KRG has pursued an independent energy policy

the ongoing investments of IOCs seeking to take a share in the Kurdistan region’s geological prospects and who are prepared to build export infrastructure for hydrocarbons; and third, the political support of energy-hungry Turkey, which has increasingly antagonised Baghdad to counter Iran’s influence in Iraq and Syria, in particular.

Turkey’s role in getting KRG oil to the markets is essential but it is having an inflammatory effect on existing tensions between Erbil and Baghdad.

Recently, the US ambassador to Turkey, Francis Ricciardone, held a two-hour meeting with officials from the Turkish foreign ministry in which he reportedly warned that Turkey's energy policy and support for the KRG might cause the disintegration of Iraq and lead to chaos, according to Turkish media reports.

Secret agreement Nevertheless, he also insisted that Iraq needs to agree on a national oil law: "The Iraqis have been struggling to pass a hydrocarbons law. It is very important that they succeed in that," in quotes carried by Reuters.

To make matters worse, Iranian media reports have quoted Aytun Ciray, a Turkish opposition member of parliament from the Republican People’s Party, saying that Ankara and Erbil have signed a secret agreement to export KRG oil to the global market via Turkey without Baghdad’s knowledge.

Whether this deal is confirmed or not, the KRG’s oil minister, Ashti Hawrami, has made it clear recently that the KRG will press ahead with building its own oil export pipeline to Turkey despite Baghdad’s (and increasingly US) objections due to the risk of a disintegration of Iraq. Hawrami complained that the KRG is entitled to 17 per cent of Iraq’s refined products, but receives only three per cent – insufficient refining capacity to satisfy domestic demand. ■ www.oilreview.me

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WesternZagros spuds Kurdamir-3 well WESTERNZAGROS RESOURCES HAS spudded the latest well of its extensive exploration and appraisal program in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Drilling began on the Kurdamir-3 appraisal well on the Kurdamir Block on February 22, 2013.

3D seismic surveys are also underway on both the Kurdamir and Garmian Blocks, and preparations are progressing for the three wells on the Garmian Block planned for this year.

Simon Hatfield, CEO of WesternZagros commented, “2013 promises to be an exciting, transformational year for the company. We are actively delineating our two major discoveries at Sarqala and Kurdamir and also pursuing high-impact step-out exploration on our Baram and Hasira prospects.”

Drilling operations have begun at the Kurdamir-3 appraisal well on the giant Kurdamir Discovery. The well was spudded on February 22, 2013. The well is expected to take approx. four months to reach the planned total depth of 2,800 metres. The company expects the gross costs of drilling and testing operations to be US$50 mn.

The Kurdamir-3 well is being drilled on the southwest flank of the Kurdamir structure approx. three kilometres and five kilometres from the company's Kurdamir-1 and Kurdamir-2 discovery wells respectively.

Kurdamir-3 will further appraise the extent of the oil leg in the Oligocene interval previously encountered in the Kurdamir 1 and 2 wells.

A 3D survey started in January and is expected to be completed early in the Q3. The survey encompasses 184 sq-km on the Kurdamir Block and also extends into the neighbouring Topkhana Block in order to define more clearly the areal extent of the Oligocene, Eocene and Cretaceous reservoirs.

The data from this survey will be used to decide on future appraisal well locations and refine resource assessments of the existing discovery.

Gazprom Neft signs KRI deal RUSSIA'S FIFTH-LARGEST CRUDE producer, Gazprom Neft, has signed a deal to enter an oil project in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), a company official said. The contract was signed despite tension between local authorities and central government. International oil firms have hit problems developing fields in the KRI. The central Iraqi government claims authority over oilfields in the country while local authorities have been trying to secure separate deals with oil firms.

Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of the world's top gas producer, Gazprom, said it has secured 80 per cent of the Halabja project, the company's third project in the region.

“We entered the third project (in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq), the Halabja block.

It is close to the blocks www.gazprom-neft.com we already own,” Vadim Yakovlev, Gazprom Neft's first chief executive officer deputy, said in a conference call.

He said that the block's reserves are estimated at between 90mn and 100mn tonnes.

“Now, we have to prepare and approve the geological research programme,” he added.

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SINGAPORE-LISTED KS ENERGY (KSE) disclosed recently that it has signed a contract with Taq Taq Operating Company (TTOPCO) to supply a land rig for its drilling operations in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

The rig, KS Discoverer 4, is expected to start work in March this year. Under the terms of the agreement, the rig will be contracted for one year or until the www.ksenergy.com.sg completion of one exploration well and two development wells, whichever is later.

TTOPCO has the option to extend the contract for a further period of one year.

The contract, over the minimum period of one year, is worth US$16.8mn.

OCBC Investment Research noted in an analyst note that KSE has proven adept at raising funds from investors and partners such as Itochu, Dutco and Actis. OCBC added that it is expecting news of further tie-ups moving into the rest of this year.

ITALIAN MAJOR ENI reported recently that its average oil and gas output for Q4 of 2012 averaged 1.75mn barrels of oil equivalent (boe) per day, in line with expectations. The figure was a seven per cent improvement over Q4 of 2011 and a 3.6 per cent improvement over the previous quarter.

ENI confirmed that it had made a record amount of discovered resources during the year, with 3.64 bn barrels of oil equivalent (Bboe) found.

Meanwhile, proved reserves were at an eight-year record by the end of 2012 at 7.7 Bboe.

ENI CEO Paolo Scaroni commented in a statement: "2012 was a record year for exploration at Eni with discovered resources about six times yearly production thanks to our outstanding achievements in Mozambique and our other successes in West Africa, in the Barents Sea and in Indonesia. We have also made significant progress in developing projects, further increasing our reserves to best ever levels."

In Mozambique, ENI executed an exploration campaign during 2012 in its operated Area 4 offshore in the Rovuma Basin, where it proved the Mamba gas complex to be a world-class discovery. Eni estimates the full mineral potential of Area 4 at 75 trillion cubic feet of gas in place, and the firm plans to drill at least two more wells there to fully establish the upside potential.

The firm added that it expects production to grow further this year, the principal drivers of this being the start up of major projects: Kashagan in Kazakhstan, Angola LNG and the firm’s gas assets in Algeria.

With a capital budget of some EUR 12.8 bn, (US$16.78 bn) ENI said that during this year it will be focused on the development of reserves in West and North Africa, Norway, Iraq and Venezuela, as well as exploration projects in West Africa, Egypt, the US and emerging areas.

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Oil Review Middle East spoke to Rashid Al-Jarwan, executive director and acting CEO of Dana Gas about the Sharjah-based company’s outlook for the gas market in the region and the latest developments in Egypt and Iraq.

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L-JARWAN OPENED BY saying that with global demand for energy in general and natural gas in particular on the rise, the fundamentals of the energy industry remained strong.

Egypt prominence The growing importance of Egypt can be seen in the raft of new gas discoveries announced by Dana Gas all of last year. The firm entered the Egyptian market in 2005 and has invested more than US$650mn in exploration, development, production and infrastructure building, according to Al-Jarwan.

For the future, he said, "We have our commitment investments this year which we will use to fund a multi-well drilling programme and ongoing infrastructure requirements."

Last year Dana Gas undertook a 7-well drilling programme and made four discoveries. “We anticipate a similar success rate this year," noted Al-Jarwan.

The last two discoveries in Egypt, Alyam-1 and Balsam-1, were onshore wells located in the Nile Delta Basin and "were significant discoveries, in terms of reserve numbers but also as confirmation that the Nile Delta is a prolific hydrocarbon-bearing basin," Al-Jarwan said.

Appraisal drilling will be conducted on both discoveries and together with the third discovery at West Sama, Dana Gas has filed a declaration of commerciality.

Al-Jarwan explained that the firm's development plans for the area include making use of the company’s existing pipeline and processing infrastructure, commercialising these wells quickly and bringing additional cash flow to the company.

The new discoveries in Egypt have meant that Dana Gas's commercial reserves have increased, with initial estimates indicating that Alyam-1 and Balsam-1 could increase the company’s commercial reserves between 17 (1P) and 95 (2P) MMBOE. According to Al-Jarwan these estimates have enabled Dana Gas to maintain gross proved reserves (as of 31 December 2012) of 87mn MMBOE. He turned to the reason why overall production dipped slightly in Egypt last year, which was down to the firm's conservative cash policy last year which has meant a reduction in CAPEX investments which resulted in an overall dip in production in Egypt.

"For 2013, we have reaffirmed an increase in CAPEX and expect production to pick up as we bring on stream new wells and increase flow-rates at others whilst also investing in the overall infrastructure to sustain the long-term growth of our operations in Egypt," he said.

NGL push The firm is positive about its NGL progressing plant after it began operations in October last year. In its first three months, the EBGDCo NGL extraction plant has processed a combined 12,340 metric tonnes of Propane (10,500) and Butane (1,840). The average gas flow-rate for the quarter was 75mn standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd) with recovery rates of 98.9 per cent and 99.9 per cent respectively.

In fact Al-Jarwan said that the feed gas rate is expected to increase gradually once gas is received from gas fields in and around Ras Shukheir area.

"We have also completed all outstanding project items related to the plant other than the finalisation of the design and testing programmes on the gas flow-rate which is being conducted by Exterran," he noted.

Once testing is complete and the plant is fully operational, Dana Gas

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anticipates doubling their gas flow-rate and EGBDCo anticipates extraction of 120,000 tonnes per annum of propane and butane from a gas stream of 150 mmscfd.

Al-Jarwan sees a bright future for NGL as "it provides us with additional revenue streams and given the huge demand internally (in Egypt) and internationally, the project provides strong validation of our strategic investment in the gas plants, alongside our partners."

Iraq growth Al-Jarwan is fairly positive about the firm's prospects in Iraq and the firm and its joint venture partners celebrated the JV’s fourth year of operations in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Production growth continued and the Khor Mor field is now producing approximately 80,000 boepd with further plans to expand daily production in 2013.

This positive outlook is related to the optimistic outlook for increased gas production in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The Khor Mor field supplies gas to two power stations, providing electricity to more than four million people. Two LPG trains were commissioned and are operational and the average production rate has increased year on year.

"Our joint-venture partners have achieved an incredible amount in the four years of operations to date," he pointed out.

The longer-term plans are to increase production capacity to meet both the local gas requirements and for export.

Al-Jarwan touched on the wrangling between the central government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. He remarked, "It is well documented that both sets of authorities are in talks to diffuse the growing tensions

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regarding revenue sharing agreements. We understand discussions are on going with regular interaction and we look forward to a peaceful resolution, allowing us and others to get on with exploring and producing oil and gas for both the local population and for exportation internationally."

Sukuk offering Al-Jarwan was clear that the refinancing transaction announced in December 2012 "is the optimum solution for shareholders and for Sukuk holders, and enables the company to focus on growing reserves, steadily building production and ultimately delivering superior returns for shareholders."

He added, “The agreement allows a more flexible and sustainable financial structure, enabling the company to move forward in pursuit of its growth strategy."

One of the main hurdles the companies faces in both Iraq and Egypt is the outstanding receivables www.danagas.com from both countries amounting to US$550mn. Both governments have been proactive in settling these but over the short term, they continue to affect the company in relation to its investment in exploration, appraisal and development programmes and its ability to repay the sukuk.

Al-Jarwan noted, "I cannot predict whether all outstanding receivables will be paid this year. However, I am encouraged by the significant efforts made by both governments to address the backlog of payments due. "

Outlook Dana Gas revealed strong 2012 results and posted a 20 per cent profit growth, strengthened their cash position, grow their operations with production growth in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and new discoveries in Egypt.

"Combined with the proposed sukuk refinancing result, Dana is well positioned to push forward with their growth plans in 2013," argued Al-Jarwan. â–

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Conversion of FSRU Toscana completed DRYDOCKS WORLD ANNOUNCED that the FSRU Toscana conversion project at the Dubai based shipyard, is going to be finalised.

The Floating Storage and Re-gasification Unit is intended for a 20 year design life 12 nautical miles off the shores of north-west Italy, in the waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea close to Livorno.

Khamis Juma Buamim, chairman of Drydocks World and Maritime World stated, "We indeed keen to take on increasingly challenging projects for the offshore deep sea exploration and production sector as we have proven time and again that we have the capacity and capability to implement such projects."

The Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) carrier Golar Frost, a 2004 Korean built

The FSRU-Toscana naming ceremony was held in Dubai

vessel with a design draught of 11 meters and lightweight of 34,000 tonnes and storage capacity of 135,000 cu/m of LNG, came to Dubai in June 2009 for conversion for contractor Saipem and client OLT Offshore LNG Toscana SpA.

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PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN (PDO) has made a major gas discovery in Mabrouk Deep in the northern part of its concession area.

Mabrouk Deep, some 40 km west of Saih Rawl, Oman’s main gas field, has estimated inplace volumes amounting to 2.9 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of gas and 115 mn barrels of condensate. Exploratory drilling took place last year at depths of up to 5,000meters and a large field of some 60 sq km was located.

PDO managing director Raoul Restucci said, “The scale of the find at Mabrouk is tremendous news for Oman as it will enable a further significant boost to Raoul economic Restucci growth.

“The discovery underlines the truly excellent work that our Exploration Directorate is conducting to identify and appraise new hydrocarbon reservoirs which will sustain the Sultanate for many years to come.”

In 2012, PDO made five new oil discoveries, amounting to approximately 300mn barrels of stock tank oil initially in place (STOIIP) from Shuaiba and Gharif reservoirs.

Restucci added, “PDO accounts for around 70 per cent of the country’s crude oil production and nearly all of its natural gas supply so there is a huge onus on us to find and develop new fields of a challenging or “unconventional” nature to replace those that are declining.

Restucci said 2013 would see an intensification of effort in key areas such as exploration, enhanced oil recovery and business efficiency.

He stated that PDO’s Exploration Directorate is planning to drill around 100 wells over the next five years and spend more than $US800mn in its search for new reservoirs.

By 2022, Restucci said there would also be 16 significant new projects comprising over US$11bn of investment, with a target of developing more than a billion barrels of oil.

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Dana Gas starts production at Egyptian gas sites SHARJAH-BASED DANA GAS has announced that commercial production at West Sama-1 and Allium-1 fields in Egypt has begun, less than two months after initial well testing was conducted.

Gas production at West Sama-1 and Allium-1 has been routed through Dana Gas’ South El Manzala and El Wastani gas plant respectively.

Rashid Al-Jarwan, executive director of Dana Gas, said, "The wells will increase our production by 566,337 cu/m day, providing much needed additional production to the Egyptian market and maintaining vital supplies of gas for power generation.”

Production from the two wells is expected to add 3,450 bopd to the company’s 2012 Egypt year-end output rate of 32,000 bopd.

Dana Gas has planned to bring Balsam-1 into production in second half of 2013.

These new fields are among the three discoveries made by Dana Gas in Egypt’s Nile Delta Basin during the company’s 2012 multi-well drilling programme.

Patrick Allman-Ward, general manager of Dana Gas Egypt, said, “Dana Gas is well positioned to bring new discoveries on stream due to the onshore location of our assets where tie ins to our existing pipelines and processing infrastructure can be made quickly, relatively inexpensively and ensures a high return on our new gas discoveries.”

Dana Gas is currently the sixth largest gas producer in Egypt. Dana Gas Egypt operates in the Nile Delta through the El Wastani Petroleum Company (Wasco), Dana Gas’ joint-venture company with the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS).

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NORWAY'S GOLAR LNG has been selected by the Jordanian Energy Ministry as the preferred bidder to supply a 3.5 mtpa Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU), according to a top official.

"We will enter negotiations with the first-ranking bidder to conclude the lease agreement. The contract may be signed by the end of March," Marwan Bakain, director of the natural gas department was reported by Interfax as saying.

Golar LNG, the carrier fleet owner and floating storage and regasification unit provider, said it was encouraged by the Jordanian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources' decision to select Golar as preferred bidder for their FSRU requirement for which negotiations on a firm contract should begin shortly.

The terminal will have an initial base-case send-out capacity of 4.2mn cubic metres per day (MMcm/d), with the possibility of increasing send-out to 14.2 MMcm/d. The Energy Ministry intends to launch the tender for LNG supply to the facility within the next two months and aims to start imports in the second half of 2014.

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Honeywell awarded Four contracts by Borouge HONEYWELL HAS BEEN awarded four major contracts worth a combined US$40mn over an 18-month duration for the Borouge petrochemicals complex in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi.

Honeywell will be the main automation contractor (MAC) for this project, providing Linde and other engineering, procurement and construction (EPCs) contractors involved in the project with integrated control and safety systems.

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Dow Chemical awarded bigger payout from Kuwait

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DOW CHEMICAL CO. (Dow) has been awarded an additional US$318mn in an arbitration case with Petrochemical Industries Company of Kuwait (PIC) related to the K-Dow transaction.

The award, from the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce, brings the total amount Dow Chemical has been awarded to US$2.48 bn and is the last step in the disciplined arbitration process, bringing the process to an end.

The partial award of US$2.16bn was announced last May. The extra award is linked to a dispute over a scrapped multibilliondollar joint venture, know as K-Dow Petrochemicals, in 2008.

"Payment of these damages of nearly US$2.5bn will allow Dow to accelerate its priority uses for cash by further strengthening our balance sheet," Dow chief executive Andrew Liveris said. "Dow and Kuwait share a long history and strong partnership, and this award ruling brings suitable closure to the arbitration process."

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Orpic to connect refineries between Sohar and Muscat THE STATE-OWNED OMAN Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) said it is planning a new 280 km pipeline connecting refineries between Sohar and Muscat.

The project will increase the Mina Al Fahal Refinery storage capacity for diesel, petrol and connect the current storage facilities in Sohar and Mina Al Fahal refineries.

Musab Al-Mahruqi, CEO of Orpic commented, "The new storage and loading station will reduce the load on the current Mina Al Fahal station which considered as the main station for loading and distributing fuel in Oman. As much as 70 per cent of Oman fuel is being distributed from Mina Al Fahal and the rest from Sohar Refineries and Raysut Port."

"With this significant investment, we will remove the need to ship refined products from Sohar to Muscat and then truck them through the city, as we do today. This will bring a new level of efficiency," he added.

The implementation of the Muscat-Sohar Pipeline Project will be carried out in three phases. Under the first Phase, a pipeline will connect the Muscat International Airport and the Mina Al Fahal Refinery by a main storage facility, while in Phase 2 a pipeline will be built to connect the Mina Al Fahal Refinery and the Sohar Refinery as well as the construction of an intermediate storage facility in Muscat. In the final Phase, an additional strategic storage facility will be built, which will provide strategic reserves for Oman, allowing fuel stocking for 30 days.

Jacobs awarded Luberef Yanbu expansion deal JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP was awarded a contract from Saudi Aramco Lubricating Oil Refining Co. (Luberef) to provide project management consulting (PMC) services for an expansion project at its lube oil refinery in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.

Under the terms of the agreement, Jacobs will provide PMC services for both inside battery limits (ISBL) and outside battery limits (OSBL). The ISBL services include a new lube oil unit, a new sulfur complex, a new hydrogen manufacturing unit, and an expansion of the propane de-asphalting unit. The OSBL services involve all utilities, tanks and infrastructure.

Luberef's President and CEO Hasan Jamaan Alzahrani stated, "This expansion project will add value to the Kingdom's economy including employment, and provide high quality lubricants to the markets we serve."

Jacobs' Leiden, Netherlands office is managing the overall project in collaboration with Jacobs' offices in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia and other locations.

The Yanbu Refinery expansion is expected to increase base oil production to meet future demands for high quality GR-II and GR-III base oils; increase the GR-I Bright stock to almost double current production; produce higher-value byproducts (naphtha, diesel, and kerosene).

"In addition, it is part of Luberef's overall strategy to provide high quality base oil with different product slates of GR-I, GR-II, and GR-III to strengthen Luberef's position as a leading supplier. Luberef is looking forward to working with Jacobs to execute this major milestone of the expansion project," added Alzahrani.

Jacobs Group vice president Bassim Shebaro noted, "After our successful FEED efforts, we welcome the opportunity to continue to support Luberef's production of higher-grade clean fuels."

Luberef, a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Jadwa Industrial Investment.

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Iran to create petrochemical hub IRAN HAS ANNOUNCED plans to establish three energy hubs on the Gulf islands of Lavan, Qeshm and Siri.

According to Mahmoud Zirakchianzadeh, managing director of the National Iranian Offshore Oil Company (NIOOC), about US$70bn will be invested in the country's upstream sector of the oil industry, with the NIOOC planning to turn Lavan Island into a petrochemical hub.

Zirakchianzadeh said some 8.5mn cubic metres of natural gas will be fed into the Lavan Island for it to produce and directly export petrochemical products. He added that some US$12bn and US$16bn in investment were respectively needed for the development of Lavan’s upstream industry and petrochemical sector.

"Siri Island will become Iran’s gas export hub. Around US$14bn of investment is needed for the development of the three gas fields of Foruz-A and -B and Binaloud in the island," the NIOOC official added.

Iran is looking to invest in Lavan Island

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QP awards Al-Karaana FEED contract to Fluor QATAR PETROLEUM (QP) and Shell have awarded the Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) contract to Fluor for the joint AlKaraana Petrochemicals Complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City.

The award is an important milestone for the project as it completes the full scope and definition for the development of the project. The chairman of the project’s Executive Committee, Mohammed Nasser AlHajri noted, “The focus of the project team is on the delivery of a quality FEED that will be a major step towards successfully delivering this project.”

Mohammed bin Saleh Al-Sada, Qatar’s Minister of Energy and chairman & managing director of QP, said, “The Al-Karaana Petrochemicals Complex project has been envisioned to further boost Qatar’s rapidly growing stature in the global petrochemicals industry. I am very pleased to see the project taking a significant step forward.”

The scope under consideration for the Al-Karaana Petrochemical Complex project includes the following: a world-scale steam cracker, with feedstock coming from natural gas projects in Qatar; a 1.5mn tonnes per annum (tpa) mono-ethylene glycol plant using Shell’s proprietary OMEGA (Only MEG Advantaged) technology; a 300,000 tpa linear alpha olefin unit using the proprietary Shell Higher Olefins Process; and a 250,000 tpa OXO products.

Graham van’t Hoff, executive vice president for Shell Chemicals remarked, “The proposed Al-Karaana Petrochemicals Complex project underlines Shell’s growth aspirations in the Middle East.”

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Saudis to invest heavily in India SAUDI ARABIA'S STATE-OWNED fund and private companies plan to invest heavily in a host of vital economic sectors in India, said Saudi Ambassador to New Delhi Saud Al-Sati.

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"Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC) is the largest public sector firm. It is looking for joint ventures to expand operations globally. In India it is in the process of investing around $ 100 million," IANS quoted Al-Sati as saying.

He added: "Several other Saudi firms are exploring similar opportunities. They are finding India attractive."

Will Iran overtake Saudi production?

IRAN HAS EARNED nearly US$3 billion in exports of petrochemical products during the first 336 days of the Iranian calendar year that began on March 21, 2012.

The exports of paraxylene, benzene and other petrochemical products from the Assaluyeh port, located in the southern part of the country, fetched US$ 2.856 billion for Iran, Mehr News Agency reported.

According to the www.nipc.net report, Iran’s petrochemical products were mainly exported to China, India, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Afghanistan, United Arab Emirates, Spain, Taiwan, Malaysia, Turkey, Vietnam and the Netherlands during the period.

In the last calendar year, Iran exported a total of 18.2 million tons of petrochemicals and polymers worth around US$14.2 billion to over 60 countries.

Iran’s National Petrochemical Company (NPC) is currently the secondbiggest manufacturer and exporter of petrochemicals in the Middle East, next only to Saudi Arabia.

The petrochemical production capacity of Iran is likely to reach 100 million tons by 2015, Mr. Abdolhossein Bayat, an Iranian Deputy Oil Minister, has said.

Bayat, who is also the managing director of National Petrochemical Company (NPC), said Iran’s petrochemical production capacity would increase to 60 million tons by August this year, as several new petrochemical projects are likely to come onstream by then.

New petrochemical hubs are being set up in Lavan Island in the Persian Gulf, in the southeastern port city of Chabahar, and in Sarakhsh in northeastern Iran, which are together expected to make Iran the largest petrochemical producer in the Middle East. www.oilreview.me

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SOGAT 2013 Open for business

New sour gas field exploitation is focused on but not limited to the Middle East given the many interesting activities taking place in North and South America, Russia, Central Asia and the Far East.

HUS WITH SO many international sour hydrocarbon projects there is a real need for operators to work closely with partners and service companies to ensure that project management, risks and costs are properly controlled for successful field development given the range of contaminants that need removing in order to sweeten the gas for industrial use.

The increasing domestic demand for gas at a rate of 15 per cent per annum within the Middle East has meant expanding sour E&P developments as one of the major priorities for the region’s governments.

Current developments in Saudi Arabia include the offshore Karan field where the gas processing operations from this field have commenced at the Khursaniyah Gas Plant.

PDO are continuing their efforts on the Harwell project as well as its interests in sour gas reinjection, and have significant future development plans in Southern Oman together with a new challenging brown field mega sour gas project located below currently producing sweet reservoirs.

In Kuwait, Shell is also assisting KOC with their HPHT Jurassic sour gas fields.

These deep exploration wells present some of the most challenging drilling conditions currently known.

Of the 24 phases of South Pars in Iran only 10 are operational and doubts exist over the 12th phase expected to be operational and producing 84 mcm of sour gas per day.

In Qatar, with its world dominance in LNG, they have recently started up another two of the largest LNG trains each having a capacity of 7.8 MTPA and are still producing around two million t/a of sulphur from natural gas processing at the Common Sulphur Facility at Ras Laffan.

When the Shah Field in the UAE is operational it expects to increase gas capacity by 10.34 bcm/y and all aspects of this project will serve as an international benchmark in future sour gas development.

UAE sour gas interests are not limited to Shah as technical assessments have commenced for the Bab Field prior to tendering in 2015 which after expansion

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should increase production to 36.6 mcm per day. ADNOC have also invited Wintershall and OMV to investigate the potential of the Sour Shuwaihat Field. Similarly the offshore Hail Field is under technical review given its potential of producing 14.2 mcm per day of sour gas. This increase in sour gas output will be addressed by the Asab Gas Processing Facility and a further fifth plant at Habsham allowing 198.2 mcm per day to be processed.

Certain fields under development contain significant amounts of CO2. The interest in CO2 – EOR in the region as a whole continues and within Abu Dhabi, ADMAOPCO is conducting a feasibility study for the Thanama Reservoir and ADCO’s plans with the Rumaitha Field are ongoing.

Throughout the region there will also be a need for more plant to manage the increase in liquid sulphur by-products.

So the SOGAT 2013 Conference will see several examples of the latest acid/sour gas removal techniques being presented. Also featured will be the impending environmental needs to improve SRU efficiency, how to overcome the detrimental effects of various

contaminations in sour gas processing, managing polluting emission risks, the proper management of engineering material selection to combat various corrosion scenarios and to avoid costly repair or redesign aspects, CO2 issues with respect to amine treatment and EOR usage and the all important HSE challenges with sour gases in protecting employees as well as the proper handling of liquid and solid sulphur to mitigate serious subsequent issues for the supply and distribution chain.

Thus together with the pre-conference range of detailed workshop topics and the increased number of exhibitors participating together with specific software demos from one exhibitor, SOGAT 2013 will provide a unique and one stop opportunity to benefit all from the latest developments in international sour hydrocarbon technology management and will continue to serve as the premier international meeting place for the sour gas community.

Visitors to the Exhibition are welcome and can attend for free but need to register at www.sogat.org.

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'Charting a course' is the appropriately nautical theme for this year’s Offshore Mediterranean Conference (OMC).

With Libya back fully on stream the sea unites a wide region with huge potential.

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HE 11TH OFFSHORE Mediterranean Conference & Exhibition will be open in the Italian oil port-and-processing city of Ravenna from 20-23 March. Back in 2011 – a momentous year for the regional industry as a result of events in Libya – more than 1,200 delegates attended the many technical sessions, and more than 10,000 visited the focused trade exhibition alongside.

Says this year’s chairman Innocenzo Titone: “OMC 2013 will continue to provide a unique venue for discussing the latest developments in oil and gas technology and their applications, across the entire E&P chain, providing a platform for technical knowledge exchange and networking opportunities.”

And he comments in his welcome message (issued along with all relevant details including the full conference programme at www.omc.it/2013) on the momentous challenges and changes facing the industry in general and this enormous region in particular. These include: the unstable financial context generally; continuing political unrest in energyproducing countries; the development of unconventional resources, now including crude itself in North America; retraining of skilled workers; and the opportunities offered by new giant fields – to name but a few. He places special emphasis on the growing social responsibilities that the industry now faces, the subject of a special session on the morning of 22 March.

OMC 2013 will continue to provide a unique venue for discussing the latest developments in oil and gas technology and their applications, across the entire E&P chain “Integrating social responsibility activities into project planning and execution ... assures companies of having a licence to operate” he says, referring to operations in frontier and mature areas – with social responsibility being the “fourth element” of HSE. Introduced by eni’s CEO Paolo Scaroni leading officials from Algeria, Egypt and Libya will participate in the opening non-technical session, concentrating on the general issues raised by Eng Titone above.

All will remember very clearly how it was during the previous OMC that the Libyan crisis with its momentous consequences - for the whole region and the whole wider world - was brewing up fast. The plenary will concentrate on the new strategies needed to cope with just some of the ongoing regional results.

Detailed technical sessions follow as listed here: 20 March, pm 6 Exploration prospects 6 Flow assurance 6 Advances in drilling technology 6 Seismic interpretation, satellite field exploration 6 Gas valorisation 6 Drilling optimisation 21 March, am

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22 March, am HP-HT and E&P challenges Field and production optimisation Technologies for the future II New logging techniques Offshore pipeline integrity Safety enhancement for facilities and materials A lot of detail about the technical workshops also on offer is provided on the website, participation being negotiable on an individual-registration basis.

These cover such topics as Aspects of automation (in association with the well known Italian ANIMP association, 21 March, am), Offshore service vessels (21 March, pm), as well as Developing offshore wind resources on the 22nd.

Oil Review Middle East along with its Oil Review Africa equivalent are proud to have been appointed Official Regional Magazines for this highly regarded two-yearly technical conference which focuses on a vital but generally under-exposed region.

All delegates will receive a full set of conference proceedings, and additional copies can be obtained at cost from new associated publishers OnePetro at http://shop.omc ■

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What the industry says

Seminar series confirmed

“…a unique opportunity to interact with industry partners and discuss the changes that are occurring in the upstream sector, the ever so important environmental aspects of our operations, technological innovation and the development of international infrastructures.”

[Nicola Monti, Edison Spa]

PRECISION POLYMER ENGINEERING (PPE), a leading manufacturer of high performance moulded elastomer seals will be delivering a series of seminars at the OMC (Offshore Mediterranean Conference) in Ravenna, Italy, between 20th and 22nd March alongside key Italian specialist sealing distributor Fridle Sistemi di Tenuta.

PPE and Fridle are also jointly exhibiting at the show, showcasing their range of specialist O-Rings and sealing solutions for the offshore oil and gas Industry, focussing on key PPE brands Perlast and Endura.

The three seminar sessions will take place on Wednesday 20th March between 10am and 1pm in room “Sala Verde” (1st floor Hall 6) and will cover topics including; 6 Elastomer seals in high concentration sour gas (H2S) – what you should know, 6 Rapid Gas Decompression (RGD) tests for offshore sealing: the good, the bad and the just plain inappropriate, 6 Low temperature elastomers for the oil and gas industry – how low can you go?

These seminars will aim to address the key sealing issues affecting the oil and gas industry in an ever more demanding marketplace. Places at the seminars are free to attend but are limited to only 40 delegates and both PPE and Fridle are anticipating strong demand for the tickets.

PPE has experienced significant growth in recent years providing specialist seals for the oil and gas industry and attendance at OMC is viewed as an excellent opportunity to meet new and existing customers to enable them to discuss technical issues surrounding effective sealing technologies. PPE are especially interested in talking to valve manufactures and manufacturers of other specialist flow control equipment that supply the oil and gas industry.

Italy is a hotbed of specialist valve manufactures and PPE has identified this as a significant opportunity to penetrate the European manufacturing market further.

Paul Gillyon, managing director, PPE said “we have a number of excellent partner distributors around the world who do a superb job of communicating our value proposition and in a market as important to us as Italy, we are delighted to work together with Fridle on joint promotional projects. We expect demand for the seminars to be very strong, in 2011 there was standing room only so we are advising that people pre-register for these sessions to avoid disappointment.”

“There is a focus, unique within the industry, on the issues and opportunities which are important to those of us who are exploring for and developing the resources in this area.” [Giuseppe Tannoia, eni e&p] “…a unique networking opportunity for upstream companies … With the world’s energy systems facing profound changes it provides an excellent insight into innovations in the technologies on which our business relies and a chance not to be missed to discuss them and share knowledge …” [Marco Brun, Shell Italia E&P] “OMC is a key opportunity for us to communicate who we are, what we do and what are our strengths and values.” [Thierry Normand, Total E&P Italia] Other major companies including Baker Hughes, Halliburton, Schlumberger and Saipem (eni Group) are again proud to be associated with this major regional event.

Address e-mailed queries to conference@omc.it and/or exhibition@omc.it (tel +39 0544 219418 and +39 0630 883030 respectively)

Accurate analysis of fluid types BAKER HUGHES ANNOUNCED the availability of its SOr™ (saturation oil remaining) sponge liner coring system, which provides an accurate analysis and measurement of fluid types and oil saturation levels in cores. This information helps operators optimise their asset life cycle and determine if formations have sufficient reserves in place to continue field development and production. Conventional sponge coring methods do not always accurately determine fluid types or quantify residual oil volumes because the sponge can be easily damaged, allowing oil seepage during core extraction. The SOr system, which includes a 3½-in. ID sponge liner, modified pilot shoe, proprietary pressure-compensating piston design, LaserCut™ aluminum inner-barrel liner system, and custom-designed coring bit, reduces the risk of drilling fluid invasion and captures all of the expelled oil as the core is brought to the surface. The system’s application-specific bit minimizes eccentricity and helps ensure that a precisely sized core is cut for entry into the sponge liner. The molded, oil-absorptive sponge liner with protective mesh ensures a close fit between the core and the sponge so that expelled oil is absorbed rather than lost in the formation or wellbore. This tight fit also provides additional core integrity and protects it during acquisition, recovery, surface handling, and transportation to the laboratory for analysis and short-term storage.

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Jasmine (UK) ÂŁ5 million supplied to ConocoPhillips for specialist fire resistant cables for Phase 1 of the Jasmine development in the Central North Sea

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Innovations

Schlumberger releases new slimhole RSS SCHLUMBERGER HAS LAUNCHED the slimhole PowerDrive Archer high build rate rotary steerable system (RSS). The new RSS delivers build rates of up to 18°/100 feet (ft), with full directional control and dogleg assurance for complex 3D well profiles and multilateral well designs.

“The slimhole PowerDrive Archer RSS can drill well profiles previously only possible with motors, in one run, with the ROP and wellbore quality of a fully rotating RSS,” said Steve Kaufmann, president of Drilling & Measurements at Schlumberger.

“Expanding the capabilities of our high build rate RSS services, this slimhole edition has drilled 130,000 ft in carbonate, sand and unconventional reservoirs as part of our integrated drilling systems offering, including advanced Smith PDC drillbit technology,” he added.

Schlumberger said in a statment that the slimhole PowerDrive Archer RSS uses a combination of push-and point-the-bit technologies, and introduces a step change in drilling performance in geosteering and openhole sidetrack applications.

The new product has been built on the reliability of the PowerDrive X6 system.

It has proven itself in more than 130 field test runs in North America, the Middle East, West Africa, Europe and Asia.

The slimhole PowerDrive Archer high build rate RSS can drill well profiles previously only possible with motors

In the Permian Basin, Cimarex Energy needed to drill a 6 1/8-in horizontal section within a 7-ft thick true vertical depth zone in the Bone Spring shale formation. The well design included high dogleg severity with a 10°/100-ft curve. The slimhole high build rate RSS was selected to eliminate additional trips downhole, and the challenging curve and lateral were drilled in one run, saving 26 hours of drilling time.

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HALLIBURTON’S FORAYSM 3D microseismic fracture matching analysis service is now available as a real time application. A component of Halliburton’s Knoesissm service, the Foray service provides a new method of fracture diagnostics that uses microseismic event data as it is generated in real time to develop an image of the fracture network being created in the formation.

Halliburton noted that real-time analysis provides the technical team the knowledge it needs to make changes to treatments during the Knoesissm service job. Every fracturing treatment can be tailored for maximum effectiveness. This capability is particularly important for fracturing treatments in shale formations.

The Foray service, according to Halliburton, can help to reduce the cost per barrel of oil equivalent and maximise asset value for an operator through improving fracturing treatment design and execution.

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Maersk Oil Qatar signs major drilling contract MAERSK OIL QATAR and Gulf Drilling International (GDI) have signed a four year agreement worth US$211mn in which Maersk Oil Qatar will contract the Al Jassra, GDI’s new-build jack-up drilling rig.

The contract covers drilling and well work-over activity in the Al Shaheen field, Qatar’s largest offshore oil field. The Al Jassra will be one of the drilling rigs used to deliver Maersk Oil’s current field development plan, FDP 2012, which was agreed in November 2012 and calls for the drilling of 51 new wells in the Al Shaheen oil field.

Lewis Affleck, Maersk Oil Qatar’s managing director said, “By working closely with our partner Qatar Petroleum, Maersk Oil has started to unlock the significant potential of the Al Shaheen oil field. We have already drilled in excess of 300 wells, and we expect to drill many more in the years ahead to optimise recovery from this giant offshore oil field.”

The state-of-the-art Al Jassra rig is a Pacific Class 400 jack-up drilling rig.

The rig will come with a 75’ cantilever outreach and will provide accommodation for 150 persons. It will provide the capacity and ability to drill the extended reach wells that are needed to access the long thin reservoirs of the Al Shaheen field.

Ibrahim Al-Othman, GDI’s CEO added," This deal signifies an important milestone for GDI, as we begin to provide an essential role in the future development of Qatar’s largest offshore oil field. Both companies have worked tirelessly to ensure that a credible, economic and sustainable drilling rig solution is delivered.”

The Al Jassra rig is currently under construction at PPL shipyard in Singapore. Following commissioning and dry tow, the rig is expected to arrive in Qatar mid-year, 2013.

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Innovations

Halliburton adds new features to its Foray service

Saudi Aramco and Welltec trial new well tractor system

Foster Wheeler and Shell agree technology Enterprise Framework Agreement FOSTER WHEELER HAS signed a five-year global Enterprise Framework Agreement (EFA) with Shell Global Solutions International (Shell).

Under this agreement, Shell may request Foster Wheeler to provide support in the preparation of basic engineering packages for the following Shell technologies: distillation, hydrocracking, hydrotreating, thermal conversion, ethylene oxide, pyrolysis gas, fluid catalytic cracking and CANSOLV sulfur dioxide scrubbing.

The agreement is for a five-year period, with an option for Shell and Foster Wheeler to agree to extend the agreement for another five years.

Foster Wheeler already has in place a five-year Asian Enterprise Framework Agreement initiated last year with Shell under which Foster Wheeler is providing engineering and project management services for Shell downstream and midstream projects in Asia and elsewhere.

“We are already working with Shell on a diverse portfolio of their planned investments under the Asian Enterprise Framework Agreement, both within Asia and elsewhere, and we are very pleased to have signed a second EFA under which we will provide additional global support to Shell, this time in the development of technology packages,” said Umberto della Sala, President and chief operating officer, Foster Wheeler AG. “It is a key strategic objective of Foster Wheeler to develop and extend long-term relationships with our clients to leverage our technical expertise, global reach and local project delivery to support their global investment plans,” he added.

THE EXPEC ADVANCED Research Center (EXPEC ARC) and Welltec have collaboratively developed and successfully field tested the first 2-1/8 inch well tractor that can pull a coiled tubing through to the total depth (TD) of the well to perform stimulation and logging jobs.

The tractor is a tandem set-up equipped with dedicated turbines and generators that can provide the necessary power to the tractors to pull the stimulation and other tools down to the TD. “This new development will add significant value in ongoing operations, such as in the Manifa field, where extended reach wells need to be stimulated to meet the expected targets,” said Nabil Al-Habib, chief technologist of EXPEC ARC Production Technology Team (PTT).

The Upstream business line has been developing Extreme Reservoir Contact (ERC) wells with advanced completions to complement their Extended Reach Drilling (ERD) in achieving wells that can span kilometers and increase reservoir contact to improve sweep efficiency and ability to recover. To overcome the difficulties of producing hydrocarbons through laterals of such long distances, electrical submersible pumps (ESP) are deployed within the ERC laterals to boost hydrocarbon production over the long well distances.

The challenge remains in pulling tools to the TD of the well, especially for a stimulation job that needs to be performed using a coiled tubing (CT). A tool has to be designed small enough to go through small diameter constrictions, yet powerful enough to pull the load needed. EXPEC ARC and Welltec had to overcome this challenge through their development of the first tandem 2-1/8 inch well tractor and have proven its viability in a recent Saudi Arabia field test.

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DURING THE PAST DECADE, thousands of Rotork IQ intelligent electric valve actuators have been installed on stages one and two of the 4000 kilometre long West-East Gas Pipeline (WEPP) network that runs through sixty-six counties in the ten provinces of China.

Huge new testing facility for T&C partner VIAR VALVOLE, AN established Italian manufacturer of floating and trunnionmounted ball valves, has invested heavily in a new testing facility close to their factory in Sumirago. The company is represented by Trouvay and Cauvin Ltd.

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Plasma cutting and gouging system HYPERTHERM, A MANUFACTURER of advanced cutting systems recently announced the release of the MAXPRO200®, a 200 amp LongLife® air and oxygen plasma system. The system is engineered for heavy-duty, highcapacity cutting and gouging.

Full details can be found at www.oilreview.me The system boasts rapid cutting speeds

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Automated test capability for sealing materials PRECISION POLYMER ENGINEERING (PPE), a leading manufacturer of high performance moulded elastomer seals has invested in a third, advanced test system for the laboratory at their UK headquarters. This system provides automated testing of the resistance of sealing materials to high pressure conditions such as those deep in undersea oil wells.

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AVEVA Everything3D now available AVEVA RECENTLY ANNOUNCED the commercial availability of its brandnew plant design software, AVEVA Everything3D (AVEVA E3D), which the company claims sets a new level of performance for major capital engineering projects.

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Does pipeline supply of gas at extreme depths have to be limited to high priced, specially made and very thick pipes? Not necessarily. Phil Desmond discusses a new approach to deepwater pipeline supply that adapts some existing technologies and, potentially, cuts costs — without undermining safety standards.

Is the gas pipeline industry

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ANY FLOORS ABOVE ground level is possibly not where you would expect to be when discussing technology that is to run along the sea bed. However, if you’ve got a good story, it really doesn’t matter where it’s told. And X-Stream is a very good story, as DNV, a global provider of knowledge for managing risk, made clear in a press conference earlier this year in a high-rise building in central London.

X-Stream is a new pipeline concept researched and developed by DNV. Its aim is to lower the costs of deep-and ultra-deepwater gas pipelines but still meet safety standards.

If it can be done it will probably find the market receptive. Gas fields are going deeper and further offshore and the likeliest alternative gas transport option — FLNG — is not particularly cheap. XStream of course would need some upfront investment and testing but DNV presents it as a reasonably priced option, if it can be commercialised.

DNV would not be the company that commercialised X-Stream; that’s for the oil and gas industry itself to do — with DNV’s help if required.

However, based on past experience, DNV is not being overly optimistic in promoting this concept.

The company has been instrumental in developing and upgrading the safety and integrity regime and standards for offshore pipelines over a number of decades. Today, more than 65 per cent of the world’s offshore pipelines are designed and installed to DNV’s offshore pipeline standard.

The selling point of the concept is that by controlling the pressure differential between a pipeline’s external and internal pressures at all times, the amount of steel and thickness of the pipe wall can be reduced by as much as 25-30 per cent — and possibly more. That’s an important claim because today’s very thick pipelines can only be produced by a limited number of pipe mills and laid by a limited number of vessels. Reduced thickness means more pipe mills and vessels, which means more competition, more economies of scale and cheaper pipelines. That, at least, is the idea.

Downloads and videos explaining the technical details of the concept can be found at http://www.dnv.com/resources/video/x_stream_ga s_transport_concept.asp and http://www.dnv.com/binaries/X_Stream_gas_trans port_concept_tcm4-506349.pdf. However, a brief summary goes as follows: during installation, it is necessary to fully or partially flood the pipeline to

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Its aim is to lower the costs of deep-and ultra-deepwater gas pipelines but still meet safety standards.

Its aim is to lower the costs of deep-and ultra-deepwater gas pipelines but still meet safety standards.

control its differential pressure. An inverted High Pressure Protection System — i-HIPPS — and inverted Double Block and Bleed valves — i-DBB — are used to ensure that the system immediately and effectively isolates the deepwater pipe if the pressure starts to fall. In this way, the internal pipeline pressure is maintained above a critical level for any length of time.

A concept study As we have noted, this is a concept study; a basic and detailed design will need to be carried out before the X-Stream concept is realised on a real project. DNV intends to work further with the industry to refine and test the concept.

Experienced players in the pipeline industry will notice that much of this is not new — and that is something DNV freely admits. The company based its concept on improving existing technological systems rather than inventing new ones, as DNV’s global pipeline manager, Asle Venås, explains. “We looked at several technologies, some new and

some based on existing technologies. This one was what we saw as the most promising,” he says.

That, however, begs an important question: if the systems existed already, why was DNV the first to come up with this concept? In fact, says Venås, several authorities have already suggested using continuous internal pressure in pipelines as a concept, “but without giving details on how this can be done. We put several technologies together in a way that makes this safe and reliable.”

The fact that this is not a system requiring a totally new approach is important. After all, technological change is often slow in the oil and gas world. While he does not estimate a specific timeframe from acceptance of the concept to development, testing and launch, Venås does say: “X-Stream is based on already proven technology so I guess it should be relatively easy to qualify and implement.” However, he adds: “Time is dependent on the resources put into development.” In any case, “it is a concept that needs to be studied further”.

But it could clearly meet a need. “We know that the cost of long-distance gas transport in ultradeep water is a serious challenge,” says Venås. “XStream was started after our CEO Henrik Madsen had been told this by the CEO of Petrobras, which faces this challenge on its pre-salt development. “ Bear in mind also that even though areas like the Middle East tend to carry out E&P at modest depths, pipeline transport of gas overseas (from Oman to India, say, which has been mooted) will

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inevitably involve greater depths. Venås explains: “The Middle East has a lot of gas and in principle only one country to export to that is within reach for pipelines — and that is India. However, the Arabian Sea is ultra deep.”

Of course African gas involves depth of production as well as supply. “A large part of the oil and gas field offshore West Africa is in very deep water and the new licences issued are in even deeper water,” says Venås. And there is a clear opportunity to monetise that gas if transport costs can be driven down. “In West Africa most of the associated [offshore] gas is flared because it is too costly to send to shore. The only country in West Africa where it is forbidden to flare the associated gas is Ghana.”

And Africa will have a lot more gas to deal with soon, he suggests: “There are also several new oil and gas fields in other areas offshore Africa, such as Mozambique, which has discovered large reserves.”

FLNG, which has been, and will be, regularly covered in these pages, remains costly and will take a long time to develop. If pipeline production costs were to fall as a consequence of adopting XStream (or a version of X-Stream designed for commercial use), it might quickly pay back the money spent on development. That, however, depends on a number of factors: the type of projects that use it, the timing of its adoption, and

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It will be important to maintain the minimum pressure in the pipeline during pre-commissioning.

Africa will have a lot more gas to deal with soon. customer demand for example. Pipelines may become cheaper as thickness becomes less of an issue but really big economies of scale may be a bonus that arrives a lot further down the line.

And DNV may be among those to benefit, even though from DNV’s point of view this is a research concept rather than a project. The company would,

however, hope to gain from the application to the new deepwater pipeline environment of its established profiling, consultative, verification, standardisation and certification business.

Of course without X-Stream the deep sea gas pipeline business is not necessarily doomed.

However, as Venås notes, “If the cost goes down more projects will become financially feasible.” And those projects will start at levels unimagined in the past. How deep would Venås suggest? “No limit. By looking at the trend it appears the industry will go deeper and deeper.” ■

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Risk management solution for pipelines PIPELINES ARE IMPORTANT because they are economical means to transport liquids and gas, and they continue to be the safest way to transport. However, pipeline accidents pose considerable risk, threatening the public and/or environment, and exposing the pipeline industry to scrutiny.

With the ageing of both onshore and offshore pipelines the likelihood of pipeline failure is increasing. Pipelines that were once remote at the time of installation are now often encroached upon.

Increased shipping and increasingly aggressive fishing practices, such as trawling, bring offshore pipelines in harm’s way as well. As a result of increasing likelihood of pipeline incidents and severe consequences as related to safety, health and environment, the higher risks of operating pipelines must be understood, so that a risk informed management plan can be carried out.

Risk on a pipeline is location dependent; therefore any risk management tool must be able to address risk by location. Predicting future risk of a pipeline system over time requires an ability to connect the causative factors in a quantitative manner to failure processes.

Past failure data alone is not sufficient as the environment around pipeline changes with time (e.g., population density, soil movement, shipping lanes, etc.). For example, a Bayesian Network (BN) based risk management tool developed by DNV (Multi-Application Risk Visualization or MARV) enables prediction of future risk, drawing from theoretical models and empirical learning, and provides a robust probabilistic method of reasoning under uncertainty.

Technological developments have enabled us to receive information electronically via touch screen interfaces anywhere we go. Therefore, the future of risk management will involve mobile devices.

By taking advantage of developments in these technologies, MARV is

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capable of integrating diverse datasets to evaluate risk and present this in a visually comprehensive manner, whereby the results of the risk predictions as well as the networks are visualized in a user friendly manner on a mobile device.

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Dr. Daniel KeĂ&#x;ler, Deputy Business Segment Manager TIP TOP Oberflaechenschutz Elbe GmbH, a REMA TIP TOP Group company, recently spoke to Oil Review on the subject of corrosion protection.

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IP TOP OBERFLĂ„CHENSCHUTZ Elbe GmbH located in Lutherstadt-Wittenberg and Warstein is a wholly-owned subsidiary of REMA TIP TOP GmbH, Munich, and a leading supplier of industrial corrosion protection systems. The company says that its products, which protect against corrosion and wear have repeatedly set new standards and benchmarks within the industry.

Corrosion protection is an important subject for many industries in order to avoid plant downtime and the resulting lost output. What has in general been happening in recent years in the area of industrial corrosion protection?

Currently, no dramatically new developments are expected in the corrosion protection sector.

However, the ever-increasing number of detailed customer requirements has resulted in more and

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more customised corrosion protection solutions becoming available. In the area of corrosion protection in Germany alone, around 1.5 to two million square meters of rubberized materials and one to 1.5 million square meters of coatings have been applied over the last 25 years. The markets here demand materials that are resistant over the long term and thus permanently ensure protection against corrosion. The main cause of wear can be found in the direct corrosive effect of media, but also in the diffusion of the medium into the corrosion protection lining or coating. This is often combined with stresses due to pressure and temperature.

How far back do the roots of corrosion protection go?

They go back to the beginning of the 20th century, because increasing industrialisation caused the demands on the materials used to also rise.

Corrosion protection was of course needed before that, but the range of applications could only be extended when tar and asphalt products came into use. Considering the chemical industry, we can still certainly find areas where very old linings or ceramic sheeting are present and on top of which an asphalt layer acts as a protection against corrosion. From about 1900 on, however, these systems were supplemented by organic materials such as rubberised coatings.

What are the challenges that industrial operations face with regard to effective corrosion protection?

The situation now is that due to the complexity of production plant, for example in the chemical industry, the failure of just one component often leads to a complete stoppage of the plant. As well as the loss of pure production capacity, this may cause damage to the environment or to the plant itself. For

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this reason, corrosion protection must guarantee smooth and trouble-free operation. Should, in spite of this, a breakdown occur in the plant, the corrosion protection must be designed such that it can be repaired in an extremely short time.

What demands does this place on you as a provider of corrosion protection?

Chemical, thermal and often mechanical resistances are in the forefront because many processes in the industry take place under high temperatures and utilise aggressive media. For this reason, rubberized coatings from REMA TIP TOP can generally be used up to 100°C when subjected to wet conditions. For certain applications, we have in the meantime developed rubberised coatings that are suitable for temperatures of up to 120°C. If the temperatures encountered are higher than that, additional mineral protection such as ceramic or acid-resistant brick must be used.

How would you generally assess the lifetime of corrosion protection products?

This differs a lot and often depends on the individual conditions of use. In the chemical industry, for example, corrosion protection must satisfy completely different requirements than those needed in power stations.

What services or products does REMA TIP TOP offer in the area of corrosion protection?

We are in the fortunate situation that we not only have corrosion protection coatings and rubberized coatings in our portfolio, but that we are also the market leader in the area of abrasion-resistant rubberised coatings. Based on this fact, we offer our customers a complete package comprising the analysis, design and, if necessary, also application and servicing of corrosion protection systems. The range of materials we can use includes classic materials such as rubber or ceramics, but equally polymer-based systems based on polyurethanes and polyurea, which, by the way, we produce entirely ourselves.

What are the typical production quantities of your rubberised materials?

In 2012 this was around 1900 tons for rubber sheeting. At a thickness of five millimetres, this represents around 330,000 square meters, or around fifty football fields.

Dr. Daniel Keßler, TIP TOP Oberflaechenschutz Elbe GmbH

How do you bond the corrosion protection to the surfaces to be protected?

For coatings, we need hardly any additional material for bonding. A base coat is applied to the steel or concrete that acts as an adhesion bridge.

Rubber sheeting, in contrast, requires more complex systems consisting of primers and adhesives that must be applied to both the rubber material and the substrate utilising different processes.

Can a plant operator also retrofit corrosion protection if this is necessary?

Yes, of course, this is almost always possible.

However, if there has been no previous protection, it depends on the condition of the steel. How heavily has it been subjected to adverse conditions?

How deep has the medium migrated into the steel?

If the effort required to refurbish such a container and apply protection is too great, the operator should consider whether a new container would perhaps be a better alternative. Retrofitting can make sense and may even be necessary if, for example, the container is intended to be used with a different chemical.

Have you specialised in certain sectors?

We deliver to everywhere where chemicals are used because it is there that chemicals such as acids, leaches and salt solutions can cause corrosion. This is not so much the case in the petrochemical industry itself. We also deliver our products worldwide since we have access to a network of 170 agents.

What is the situation regarding corrosion protection in the chemical industry?

Last year we carried out, for example, a project in Saudi Arabia. The task here was to manufacture, deliver and install more than 10,000 rubberised pipe sections for a phosphoric acid plant.

So you still see markets with a good potential for development?

Correct. Even although the development of materials for corrosion protection has hit certain limits, we remain of the opinion that through developing corrosion protection systems that meet the necessary requirements it will be possible to open up new markets and applications. ■

Magnetrol expansion confirmed DUE TO ITS continued strong growth, Magnetrol International NV is expanding its production and office facilities in Zele (Belgium) by more than 5,000 sqm. Completion of the building is scheduled for May 2014.

The building expansion is designed and constructed in accordance with BREEAM, a leading design and assessment method for sustainable buildings. It will be one of the first industrial buildings in Belgium with

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BREEAM certification.

Magnetrol International NV has been located in the industrial park of Zele, Belgium for over 40 years. The company employs more than 1,300 people at its Belgian facility. Over the last five years Magnetrol Belgium has been nominated four times for Trends Gazellen awards, which are given to large companies as a result of outstanding results.

More than 95 per cent of the Belgian

production is exported to the EMEA markets.

Magnetrol says it is a recognised leader in providing customer solutions to its customers for level and flow measurement.

The company’s primary technologies include guided wave radar, ultrasonic and thermal dispersion.

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Offshore Solutions expands OAS

operations in Qatar

The OAS is an hydraulically operated telescopic gangway

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FFSHORE SOLUTIONS BV (OSBV), the joint venture between AMEC and Cofely Nederland NV, has continued to build on recent successes in The Gulf, after being awarded a Variation Order (VO) to its existing contract with Qatar Shell GTL Limited (Shell Qatar) for a second Offshore Access System (OAS), bringing its operational units with oil and gas majors in the region to three.

The latest addition is to support Shell Qatar’s Wells Reservoir Management Campaign and will see an OAS unit deployed on the Halul 50 multi purpose offshore vessel for a period of seven months with a possible option to extend.

Challenging environment The VO comes on the back of a three-year agreement with Shell Qatar to service Pearl 1 and 2 platforms of the Pearl GTL project, the world’s largest gasto-liquids plant, which is a joint venture between Qatar Petroleum and Shell.

Based on their positive experience to date of using an OAS equipped vessel, Shell Qatar have exercised their two one-year options, extending the contract duration to the end of 2015.

During this agreement, OSBV has already achieved more than 62,840 safe personnel transfers mounted on board the Bourbon Gulf Star and has been connected for more than 5,000 hours since operations began, with 100 per cent availability for the past 12 months.

OSBV has been operating in Qatar since 2010, and as a result of excellent safety and operational efficiency in a challenging environment, the company has seen growing demand for the OAS. In line with increased enquiries, OSBV will have an additional unit available in June 2013. The company also underlined its commitment to the region by registering a branch office in Qatar.

Greater access Lindsay Young, managing director of OSBV, said: “We continue to build on our impressive track record in Qatar, with three units now present in the region.”

“We have demonstrated outstanding operational efficiency throughout our projects and as an outcome of this, we are in serious discussions with other operators in Qatar and see further potential growth in the region during 2013.”

“An OAS equipped vessel provides safe and cost effective offshore accommodation that during the winter months in Qatar, offers significantly greater access to offshore installations than by crew vessels or helicopters. The additional offshore man-hours made available by marine access can have a positive impact on production and radically reduce construction and maintenance costs.”

Marcel Goedhart, Engineering Services Manager added “Due to the good performance and high level of safety achieved over the last two years of utilising the first OAS unit, this made the decision very easy to go for a second (free-standing) unit.”

Offshore Solutions BV is a joint venture between AMEC and Cofely Nederland N.V. Offshore Solutions BV is the world market leader in the invention, development, manufacture and safe operation of the industry’s most advanced marine access systems, translating these technologies into safety and value for our customers.

The OAS is a patented 21 metre, hydraulically operated telescopic gangway fitted with an active heave compensation system. The motion reference unit in its active hydraulic system allows the gangway to safely connect to a fixed offshore installation in sea states of up to three metres significant wave height when installed to a suitable vessel. ■

The OAS on board the Halul 50 multi-purpose offshore vessel

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The importance of force friction ratio in determining valve reliability and performance in the energy sector, by Richard Harvey, Key Account Manager, Norgren.

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VER MORE STRINGENT international safety requirements on valves for the energy sector, such as the IEC 61508 and 61511 standards, are placing a growing burden on manufacturers to design products offering optimum performance in the most demanding conditions.

Historically, many solenoid valves not originally designed for these applications have been widely used, with the potential to compromise overall system performance - giving them an undeserved reputation for unreliability.

Meanwhile, as well as Cv, temperature rating and certification, designers and customers have often traditionally relied mainly on mean time between failure (MTBF) to judge valve reliability.

However, MTBF is not a particularly good metric for determining solenoid valve reliability as it frequently relates to the number of operations a valve can withstand. In low demand mode applications – an attribute applicable to most safety functions where equipment often sits unused for months at a time - a measure of how likely the valve is to close on demand is clearly more relevant.

Probability of Failure on Demand is a measure used to determine the likelihood that a valve will operate if required - but even this tells the operator nothing of the intrinsic design principles of a valve. This has led to the concept of Force Friction Ratio (FFR).

What is Force Friction Ratio (FFR)?

Lubricant condition, time between operation, the presence of debris and contamination, and temperature cycling can also all cause the frictional forces experienced by the dynamic seals to increase over time, reducing FFR.

There is no definitive set of design parameters to create a ‘perfect’ valve of maximum FFR Mechanical operation of a solenoid valve All solenoid valves in process industry are either poppet or spool type solenoid valves.

In this 2/2 poppet valve there is only one static seal to perform the isolation process. There are also two dynamic seals. In this design these seals keep process media isolated from the valve’s armature assembly – known as a “dry armature”. In this valve design, the spring has to overcome the frictional resistance of only two dynamic seals. A 3/2 design would require the addition of a single static seal and no dynamic seals.

The FFR of a solenoid valve is a measure of the relationship between the force presented by the spring return mechanism and the frictional resistance within the valve. The higher the FFR, the more likely the valve is to operate when required.

In principle, creating a high-FFR valve sounds easy, as a designer can simply use a large, powerful spring. However, as the spring force increases, so does the required magnetic flux from the solenoid to open the valve and hold it open.

The knock-on effect of this is an increase in the electrical power required to operate the valve.

Causes of friction in a solenoid valve Friction is caused by the interaction of o-ring seals with the valve body. There are two types of seal interfaces – dynamic, or spool type seals, and static, also known as ‘poppet’-type seals. In a static seal there is only interaction between the seal and the body at the end of the valve travel, where the seal contacts a flat surface in the valve body. This type of seal has a minimal effect on the friction within a valve.

In dynamic seals, the seal is in permanent contact with the valve body for the duration of the valve’s movement. Dynamic seals can impact significantly on friction as the seal is laterally distorted against the valve body surface during operation. The higher the number of dynamic seals, the higher the friction. An additional drawback is the effect of thermal expansion on both friction and seal quality.

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In a typical 3/2 spool type valve, there are four dynamic seals, doubling the frictional resistance of the poppet-type assembly.

Magnetic field lines follow the path of least resistance (similar to electrical current), with metals offering significantly reduced magnetic resistance compared with air. Magnetic field lines are easily concentrated in magnetic metals but any gaps in the construction around the coil will cause a “leakage” in the magnetic flux and thus power loss. Magnetic flux leakage must therefore be minimised to increase the valve’s FFR. However, this is not so simple in the area surrounding the coil as this is the solenoid valve’s body and issues such as ease of assembly and servicing must also be considered.

This diagram demonstrates a coil housing design where magnetic flux leakage has been efficiently minimised by a solid, uniform housing surrounding the coil.

In order to maximise FFR, frictional force must be minimised. A poppet-type sealing mechanism allows the designer to minimise the friction by reducing the number of dynamic seals.

Spring force, magnetic flux and electrical power The maximum possible spring force is limited by the available magnetic flux.

The higher the flux, the stronger the permissible spring force. However, the magnetic flux is limited by the solenoid housing’s design efficiency and the magnetic core material, both of which affect the ability to transform electrical energy into a strong magnetic field.

The FFR of a solenoid valve is a measure of the relationship between the force presented by the spring return mechanism and the frictional resistance within the valve In any safety system, the available electrical energy from the control system is limited by the PLC output card capability. To maximise magnetic flux, the electro-magnet efficiency of the solenoid valve must be maximised. Ideally, all the electrical energy would be transformed into magnetic energy, allowing for the minimum possible electrical power. However, in reality this is not possible , meaning the design must limit the effect of the coil housing and core material to maximise the efficiency of the valve. Furthermore, any increase in the required coil power can raise the coil temperature, potentially leading to failure and a higher trip rate.

Coil Housing Design A significant factor in electromagnet efficiency is the coil housing design. To produce the highest possible magnetic force, the magnetic field lines must be uniform and concentrated as shown here.

Core materials The valve core is a section of magnetic material upon which the magnetic field is concentrated. When the coil is energised, the magnetic field acts upon the core, generating a magnetic force which itself acts on the armature, causing it to move and operate the valve. The magnetic properties of core materials impact significantly on the core’s ability to generate a strong magnetic field and therefore on valve operation.

All magnetic materials contain pockets of localised magnetic dipoles called “domains”. In an untreated material, these domains have a random arrangement that gives zero net magnetism. However, when a magnetic field is applied, these domains align their dipoles to create a magnetised material.

When the field is removed, a percentage of these dipoles return to an unmagnetised state.

The key property of any magnetic material used for the valve core is the dipoles’ ability to align and then return to normal. This characteristic – known as “magnetic flux density” - is critical in core material selection.

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Technical Focus With a wet armature, the core material is exposed to the process media and therefore must be corrosion-resistant. Most ‘soft magnetic’ materials have lower corrosion resistance. Corrosion-resistant magnetic materials typically have a high carbon content but are generally ‘hard magnetic’. To enable the use of a ‘soft magnetic’ core material, a dry armature design must therefore be selected.

In this diagram showing a typical hysteresis curve for a material’s magnetic properties, the x-axis is the magnetising force applied to the material and the yaxis the materials’ magnetic flux density. In solenoid valves, the magnetising force is directly proportional to the current applied and the magnetic flux density is directly proportional to the force applied to the valve armature.

Initially, where there is no applied magnetising force, there is no magnetic flux. As the applied magnetising force increases, so does the magnetic flux density. This is the dashed line, indicating a non-linear relationship.

At point (a) the material has reached magnetic saturation, where further increasing the magnetising force will not further increase flux density. When the magnetising force is reduced, the magnetic flux density follows the curve to point (b). At this point there is no applied magnetising force, but there is still residual magnetic flux density. This is called the “retentivity” and is critical for core material selection as this residual magnetic flux will be working against the solenoid valve spring, reducing the effective FFR. Put simply, the lower the retentivity, the better the FFR. When the coil is next energised, the curve will move from the origin to point (f). As the coil current is increased there is initially no increase in magnetic flux or force applied to the valve armature. This is called the ‘coercivity’ and as with retentivity, the higher the coercivity, the less suitable the material. Then as the magnetising force is increased it will continue on the curve from point (f) to point (a). This is the path that the curve will take for all subsequent energising operations.

In the graph below, hysteresis curves are shown for two different materials.

Materials with a narrow curve are called ‘soft magnetic’ and those with a wide curve ‘hard magnetic’. The narrower the hysteresis curve, the lower the retentivity and coercivity, therefore the more suitable the core material for delivering high FFR. However one important design feature limits material selection – whether a wet or dry armature is used.

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Heat dissipation The final key attribute is the ability to dissipate excess heat. When energised, all electrical coils generate heat which must be dissipated to maximise coil efficiency. The most efficient method is a good thermal path to the atmosphere to allow air cooling, meaning all materials used between the coil and atmosphere should offer good thermal conductance.

Thermal conductivity, k, is measured in Wm-¹K-¹. Stainless steel has excellent thermal conductivity of 16 Wm-¹K-¹ at 20°C whereas air has only 0.024 Wm-¹K-¹ - approximately 700 times worse. This means any air gaps in the construction dramatically reduce the coil’s ability to dissipate heat and so reduce the magnetic force generated in the valve as more electrical energy is being wasted as heat. Measured in °C, this is often quoted as the valve’s ΔT. The lower the ΔT, the better the performance, and so the higher the valve’s FFR.

What makes an ideal solenoid valve design for high FFR? There is no definitive set of design parameters to create a ‘perfect’ valve of maximum FFR, however valves designed to the following rules will be optimised for a high FFR. a. Reduce the friction by using a poppet-type design to minimise the number of dynamic seals b. Regular, continuous coil housings reduce magnetic flux leakage c. A dry armature allows the use of a soft magnetic core material, improving magnetic flux density d. Minimising air gaps in the thermal path between the coil and external surfaces improves heat dissipation, optimising improving solenoid valve efficiency e. Use the maximum spring power permissible by optimising parameters a to d ■

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Chikezie Nwaoha* interviewed Mr. Sherwin Damdar who has been working in the fluid sealing industry for the last four years. His current role is project leader for Garlock Sealing Technologies’ elastomer expansion joint division.

Pipeline expansion

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XPANSION JOINTS ARE flexible connectors used to reduce vibration, dampen sound, and compensate for movement in piping systems handling pressurised fluids. They are used in HVAC and power generation systems, sewage and water treatment plants, pulp and paper mills, chemical processing, primary metals production and petroleum refining plants. Pipe movement (face-to-face, angular, compression, lateral, elongation and vibration) can be caused by a number of factors, including system pressure or vacuum, temperature gradients, equipment vibration, system weight and structural settlement. Expansion joints are typically located at the suction or discharge side of pumps, and at directional changes and long runs of piping. They offer a number of advantages compared with pipe loops and bends, which are less expensive, but have hidden costs in terms of space requirements, installation labour and pipe supports.

Recent technologies “Many of our customers are moving beyond operational excellence to focus on safety and sustainability as important business objectives,” said Sherwin Damdar Manufacturers of expansion joints are working on developing next-generation products and

services to help customers achieve these goals.

The two primary types of expansion joints are elastomer and metal. Elastomer expansion joints are usually fabricated from natural or synthetic rubber and reinforced with fabric. In some cases, metal body rings are added for reinforcement.

Elastomer expansion joints accommodate greater pipe movement than metal units, offer a wider range of spring rates and have higher abrasion resistance. They also provide acoustical impedance and visible signs of fatigue, alerting users to potential failure.

Metal expansion joints are usually constructed in a bellows-like configuration from relatively thingauge material designed to absorb mechanical and thermal movements. They can withstand temperatures of up to 982°C and pressures up to 1,000 psi, both of which are beyond the capabilities of elastomer joints.

Selection strategies It is important to understand how process conditions will affect expansion joints. In selecting the proper expansion joint for a particular application, the following factors should be taken into account: 6 Pipe size 6 Fluid medium 6 Medium temperature 6 System pressure/vacuum 6 Expansion joint environment 6 Face-to-face dimensions 6 Pipe misalignment 6 Drilling pattern (i.e. bolt holes, bolt-hole diameters, etc.)

6 Retaining rings 6 Control units

Expansion joint accessories

It is important to understand how process conditions will affect expansion joints.

Retainer rings should be used for all elastomer expansion joints to distribute bolting pressure evenly and prevent flange damage during tightening. The rings are installed directly against the back of the expansion joint flanges and bolted through to the mating pipe flanges. This helps to ensure that a seal is created between these flanges.

Control units are recommended for most applications to prevent damage due to excessive pipe movement. These units consist of two or more control rod assemblies to minimise potential damage from excessive axial movement. They also prevent over-elongation and excessive compression if compression nuts are used.

Flow liners extend service life by protecting elastomer expansion joints from abrasive materials, particularly in high-velocity applications. These liners prevent fast-flowing fluids or highly abrasive slurries from prematurely degrading the expansion joint tubes.

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The service life of an elastomer expansion joint is subject primarily to service conditions and pipe misalignment. With proper storage and installation, this type of expansion joint can be expected to last approximately five years under moderate service conditions and minimal misalignment.

It is critically important to work with an expansion joint manufacturer that offers a complete package of products and technical support. A full-service supplier that can recommend the correct expansion joint for a given

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application will help improve plant safety, the mechanical integrity of the system in which it is installed, and ultimately the user’s competitive position in the marketplace.

Common pitfalls The biggest pitfall is subjecting expansion joints to conditions beyond their specified capabilities.

Expansion joints are designed to operate within certain ranges of temperature, pressure and movement.

When operating conditions exceed these parameters, premature failures occur. It is therefore recommended to work with your supplier to assure the correct expansion joint is specified for a particular application.

Expectations and recent technologies Many industries such as power generation and chemical processing have associations and user groups that meet regularly to review members’ concerns. These meetings cover technical issues and provide an opportunity for members with similar problems to compare their experiences and pursue corrective action.

The best innovations are customer-driven through continuous feedback via sales and applications engineers. This type of innovation, which sometimes involves direct collaboration

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between the manufacturer and customer, focuses on the latter’s need to improve not only operational performance, but also sustainability and plant safety.

The future An area of particular focus is providing customers technical support training seminars for installation and maintenance personnel to address topics such as expansion joint removal, visual inspection, proper bolting, lifting and lugging, troubleshooting, dimensional verification and others.

It is also important to instruct customers in preventative maintenance through routine on-site

inspection of all the expansion joints in their facilities. This enables timely replacement of worn joints to avoid catastrophic failures.

Also provided are failure analysis reports, offering insights into the root causes of expansion joint failures. These reports help improve the mechanical integrity of plant equipment, and can be used to create and maintain a data file for future reference. ■

* Chikezie Nwaoha (AMIMechE) is a graduate of Petroleum Engineering (with speciality in process engineering, covering flow systems design) from Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria.

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A survey undertaken by Oracle Corporation has revealed that close to 50 per cent of oil executives have, in the past few years, been making decisions based on data they do not trust.

Oil firms base decisions on

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HE SPEED WITH which more and more data has become readily available to decision makers within the global oil and gas sector has moved faster than rational decision making would allow, according to Oracle vice president Hossam Farid.

Speaking to Oil Review Middle East, Farid said that the amount of data accumulated by North American-based oil and gas companies – many who have operations in the Middle East and Africa – has, over the last five years, undergone "exponential growth" and a "sudden increase" making data management difficult for companies within the sector to deal with.

Farid said that over the last 10 years, a lot of oil companies had initiated digital oil fields in order to utilise smart technology, which has led to the collection of an "unmanageable amount of data".

"These firms are now struggling to close the gap between their execution capability and their data collection figures," noted Farid.

In the company's 2012 report, Vertically Challenged IT: Is Business Insight Coming Up Short?, Oracle revealed that 27 per cent of the oil and gas executives interviewed for the six-year-long study gave their organisations a ‘D’ or ‘F’ grade for their company's preparedness for a data deluge.

Rational decisions "This figure was a great surprise," Farid remarked. "Oil companies were traditionally on top of technology in terms of data management, but to get ‘D’ or ‘F’ from almost one third of the companies is staggering to us, because we expected it to be closer to 13 per cent."

"Close to 50 per cent of the people we spoke to said that they did not have the data required to be able to make rational decisions," Farid revealed.

"Companies have been complaining that they have been making decisions based upon data that they do not even trust. This is staggering when you consider that business intelligence has been around for at least 15 years."

Farid added that 74 per cent of the survey's respondents said that their companies were now collecting more business information and data than they were two years ago, while 96 per cent said that there has also been an increase in technical data collection over the same period.

"If you look at the upstream exploration production sector, many of the super majors are today managing approximately 10 petabytes of upstream data every year, with an annual 40 per cent increase," Farid explained.

"Most importantly companies are realising they are losing money, because of their inability to focus on all their data."

Farid stated that large oil companies had, in the past, been unable to act quickly on falling oil prices unless they had all the correct data at their disposal.

Complexity "If you go back to the financial crisis of 2008 when oil prices dropped from US$147 a barrel down to about US$43, at that time and for more than six months after a lot of oil companies were still operating at a cost level of about US$80 per barrel. Therefore, within the course of three to four months, companies went from generating huge profits from their operations to making great losses," he commented.

According to Oracle study, 22 per cent (equivalent to US$103.6mn) of average annual revenues were being lost as a result of companies not being able to fully leverage the information they collect.

Among the executives interviewed by Oracle, 32 per cent claimed that their number one management gripe was their inability to give business managers access to the information they need, due to their reliance on IT.

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Among the executives interviewed by Oracle, 32 per cent claimed that their number one management gripe was their inability to give business managers access to the information they need, due to their reliance on IT.

Farid said that over the last 10 years, a lot of oil companies had initiated digital oilfields in order to utilise smart technology While Oracle spoke to US- and Canadian-based companies for the study, Farid said that Middle Eastern- and African-based NOCs and private companies were facing a "slightly different situation".

"This is due to the fact that their maturity level in terms of data collected smart technology is somewhat slower than that of the US and Canada," he remarked.

"Having said that, the operations of these companies in Africa and the Middle East have been expanding and the complexity of their oil operations is increasing – whether it is a deep water operation or dealing with declining reserves.

"The move towards ultimation and more data required is happening as we speak," he added. "You can see that clearly in Kuwait, for instance, where it is investing heavily in smart technology; ADCO in Abu Dhabi is doing exactly the same."

Advantage Farid said that one advantage evident from the study was that the region's oil companies would be able to learn from the mistakes made by their Canadian and US counterparts.

"Look at the calendar of activities and events in the Middle East over the last 18 months and you will find oil companies such as Saudi Aramco, for example, initiating specific conferences and activities regarding data management, and we have been inviting companies such as Shell, Statoil, and BP to these events in order for companies to learn from them," Farid noted. n www.oilreview.me

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Colin Sanderson, Senior Technology Analyst of ITF said, “Unconventional gas could potentially account for around half of total recoverable gas reserves, and companies are keen to develop this important resource. We are looking to fill some of the technology gaps that currently exist.

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Competitive advantage in the energy sector is increasingly being secured by the quality of the technology deployed. Lauren LaFronz of Triple Point Technology makes the case that ongoing tightening in the markets combined with technological developments will push the next battle for differentiation into the mobile arena.

ETRM goes

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HE ECONOMIC ROLLER-COASTER ride in the energy markets has been well documented. Rapid and large price swings have become commonplace, particularly in the oil industry where it’s become a non-event for prices to swing between 15 and 30 per cent¹. This volatility is caused by multiple factors, including extreme weather phenomena that are changing consumption habits, political instabilities that are disrupting strategically important geographies, and biofuels and other renewables that are complicating financial models. This price volatility and uncertainty is making it exceptionally difficult for energy companies to make long-range business decisions, and if price fluctuations are not properly managed, profitability suffers.

Energy companies need every possible competitive advantage, and have increasingly turned to specialised systems for energy trading and risk management

Opportunities In addition, demand from developing countries, notably China and India, is rising, and this trend is expected to continue.

According to several sources including IHSCambridge Energy Research Associates, by 2030 energy demand will jump between 30 and 40 per cent from 2010 levels primarily due to requirements from emerging economies. While this growth presents big opportunities, it also presents big challenges related to supply, operations, and logistics.

Furthermore, the cost of doing business has risen due to stringent regulations regarding environmental practices, corporate governance, and financial management. And last but certainly not least, the complexity of the energy market has increased exposure to all four key types of risk as identified by the Committee of Chief Risk Officers (CCRO): price risk, operational risk, counterparty credit risk, and regulatory risk.

Streamline In this challenging environment energy companies need every possible competitive advantage, and have increasingly turned to specialised systems for energy trading and risk management (ETRM).

These systems have such a critical role that they are the subject of an annual ‘Magic Quadrant’ report from global analyst house Gartner, which examines the offerings of leading ETRM vendors.

Sophisticated ETRM platforms enable energy firms to: Optimise trading by fully integrating physical and financial positions for multiple commodities.

Minimise risk by delivering complete visibility into the four key areas of exposure identified by the

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Mobile business applications were originally limited to delivering news and information CCRO, and providing tools for analysing positions and exposure in real-time.

Streamline the supply chain by managing the unique scheduling and logistics requirements of coal, power, natural gas, and liquids.

Increase productivity and reduce manual errors by providing straight-through processing (STP) from the front- through to the back-office.

Increasingly mobile These systems have typically been provided through a desktop or laptop interface. However, the current overwhelming trend in enterprise technology is the move to mobile. The wholesale use of Blackberries in the early years of the 21st century, and more recently the advent of iPhones, iPads, and other tablet computing devices has taken enterprise computing to a new level, and created new ways of increasing productivity.

As a result, the workforce as a whole is becoming increasingly mobile. In a survey conducted for IBM, 75 per cent of executives stated that the deployment of mobile devices is critical to the long-term successes of their companies. The Fortune 500 has already embraced modern mobility: according to Apple, iPhones and iPads are already being deployed or tested by over 90 per cent of the world’s biggest companies. And furthermore, research from Forrester shows that 75

per cent of companies report increased worker productivity from deploying mobile applications.

The power and prevalence of today’s mobile devices is transforming the shape of the modern enterprise. Mobile applications empower executives to make informed, rapid decisions by giving them the data and analysis they need, when and where they need it.

Secure margins Mobile business applications were originally limited to delivering news and information, or serving as generic productivity tools. Recently, however, there have been big advances in the development of applications for specific business environments.

These applications have the power to revolutionize the way companies in the energy sector do business.

Due to its global nature, the energy market lends itself to the adoption of mobile technology.

The energy industry operates across multiple time zones, frequently involves co-ordination of efforts, resources, and information within very short timeframes, and is subject to rapid changes and fluctuations in both price and operating conditions.

It depends on informed, time-sensitive decisionmaking on a continual basis to maintain productivity and secure margins.

When looking for suitable mobile applications, there are a number of points to consider. The most valuable tools are not simply lighter versions of full desktop applications - they are developed precisely for the device concerned. The idea of moving an entire desktop solution to a mobile platform is also sub-optimal: the ideal solution will include only those tasks that are suitable to the mobile

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The new reality of the energy industry means that industry participants must adopt the latest sophisticated technology-based tools, and do so now. Market volatility and complexity are here to stay. Early adopters of desktop and now mobile solutions are already gaining competitive advantage; their competitors risk being permanently left behind. ■

Due to its global nature, the energy market lends itself to the adoption of mobile technology environment, and will offer seamless performance of just the key functions that are appropriate and/or necessary for the designated users.

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Hi-Force Ltd. ........................................................................33

Safehouse Habitats ..........................................................24

All World Exhibitions (KOGS 2013)..............................53

Hyderabad Industries Ltd ................................................32

Saga PCE Pte Ltd. ..............................................................61

All World Exhibitions (GEO)............................................69

Jal Group Italia S.r.l. ..........................................................36

Samson Controls FZE........................................................28

BAPCO ..................................................................................79

Jotun Paints U.A.E. Ltd. (LLC)............................................5

Saudi Leather Industries Company Ltd. ......................40

Bauer Kompressoren Middle East ................................29

Magnatech International BV ........................Cover wrap

Saudi Steel Pipe Company ............................................59

Blueback Reservoir AS ....................................................44

Magnetrol International N.V...........................................41

Schlumberger Oilfield Mktg Communications............2

Bredero Shaw Middle East Ltd. ....................................13

Metscco Heavy Steel Industries Co. Ltd.....................31

Schlumberger Technical Services, Inc. ..........................6

Canusa-CPS ........................................................................23

Middle East Tubular Services Ltd. ................................26

Shree Steel Overseas FZCO............................................16

Chevron ..........................................................................8 & 9

National Pipe Company ..................................................38

Societa' Italiana Elicotteri S.r.l.......................................43

CompAir Middle East ..........................................................3

Nexans ..................................................................................21

Society of Petroleum Engineers....................................25

DMG (ADIPEC 2013) ........................................................71

Nylacast................................................................................50

Suraj Limited ......................................................................17

DNV........................................................................................49

Oeltechnik............................................................................17

Tenaris ..................................................................................51

Duferco..................................................................................45

Oman Cement Company ................................................57

Tendeka ................................................................................55

Emirates................................................................................11

Orbcomm..............................................................................67

TMK, OAO ............................................................................35

Euroblast Middle East L.L.C...............................................7

People Worldwide ............................................................72

Trans Asia Pipeline Services FZC..................................63

Global Pipe Company ......................................................52

Prakash Steelage Ltd. ......................................................27

Tratos Cavi S.p.A.................................................................39

GRACO BVBA......................................................................42

Qatar Expo............................................................................74

United Metallurgical Company / JSC OMK ..............47

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