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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

SPE/IADC 163568 Expandable Liner Hanger Milling: North Sea Case Histories .......................................................... 1
Thomas Berge, Kim Daniel Mathisen, Olav Storebø, Michael Muir
SPE 166535 Insulation Monitoring Device for Subsea Industrial Applications ............................................................... 6
Jawad Arif, Nick Golledge
SPE 166537 Online Transient Simulation to Support Production Operations Planning in a Wet Crude
Oil Gathering System .......................................................................................................................................................... 17
Ramon Mollinedo, Luis Fernando Lopez, Abigail Martinez, Mandar Kulkarni, Juan Lazcano, Francisco
Villanueva, Pedro Vivas, Sergio Palaci
SPE 166538 Case History: Clay-Free Invert Fluid in Norwegian High-Temperature Well Provides
Consistent Low ECD Profile............................................................................................................................................... 25
Mads Rødsjø, Erik Akutsu, Steven Morris, Renate Mikalsen
SPE 166539 Anti-Vibration Sub Allows High Signal-To-Noise Ratio and Improved Borehole Quality ...................... 34
P. C. Bates, C. Bouziane, D. Nicholl, R. Teelken, M. Z. Bin Bidi, F. Schlichting, A. Benzamouche
SPE 166541 Putting Pressure on Subsea Pipeline and Umbilical Blockages .................................................................. 48
Rob Bain
SPE 166544 An Innovative Wireless H2S Sensor Based On Nanotechnology to Improve Safety in Oil
& Gas Facilities.................................................................................................................................................................... 57
Marco Piantanida, Maurizio Veneziani, Roberto Fresca Fantoni, William Mickelson, Oren Milgrome, Allen
Sussman, Qin Zhou, Ian Ackerman, Alex Zettl
SPE 166545 Development and Field Trial of a Non-Aqueous-Based Mud Lubricant ................................................... 66
Jean Lescure, Jerome Teng, Didier Degouy, Bernard Espagne
SPE 166546 The Use of Multi Rotor Remotely Opearated Aerial Vehicles (Roavs) as a Method of
Close Visual Inspection (CVI) of Live and Difficult to Access Assets on Offshore Platforms....................................... 80
Philip Buchan, Malcolm Connolly
SPE 166547 Improving Hydraulic Fracture Geometry Characterization: Integrating Advanced
Acoustic Measurement and Geomechanics with Hydraulic Fracturing Field Data....................................................... 89
Marie Van Steene, Magdalena Povstyanova, Mahmoud Semary, Anil Mathur, Aziza Ali, Jeff Edelman, Karim
Maghrabia
SPE 166548 Jack-up Drilling on Conventional Subsea Wellheads.................................................................................. 98
Johnnie Kotrla, Ray Cummins
SPE 166550 Offshore Horizontal Well Fracturing: Operational Optimisation in the Southern North
Sea ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 104
Marc Langford, Brian Holland, Christopher A. Green, Bogdan Bocaneala, Mark Norris
SPE 166551 Secondary Intervention for Blowout Preventers........................................................................................ 114
William P. Klassen
SPE 166552 Minimising Underwater Noise Impact from Offshore Activities.............................................................. 128
Natalia Fulton, Chengi Kuo
SPE 166554 Low Cycle Fatigue Analysis of Threaded Connectors for Subsea Drilling and Production................... 140
B. Zhu, T. L. Steen, W. R. Patterson, M. Thomas, Durai Balaji, G. Rajeshkumar
SPE 166556 Umbilical Communications Condition Monitoring ................................................................................... 148
Phil Bagley, Alisdair Gillespie, Kevin Grant, Dafydd Neale
SPE 166558 Subsea Cable Applications in Offshore Oilfield Facilities......................................................................... 156
Xiaodong Liang, John Stevens, Dwayne Kelly
SPE 166559 Managing Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Issues in the Challenging Environment of
the Alaskan North Slope ................................................................................................................................................... 168
Michele Marconi, Francisco J. Vacas, Larry Burgess, Paola Maria Pedroni
SPE 166560 From Schiehallion to QUAD 204 FPSO, Turret Mooring System Experience and
Enhancements .................................................................................................................................................................... 177
Lionel Fromage, Jean-Robert Fournier, Pieter Drijver, Alwyn McLeary
SPE 166561 Bundle Technology for the Future .............................................................................................................. 190
Martin Goodlad
SPE 166562 Deep Sea Installation with Fibre Rope Technology – A New Concept in Winches for the
Best Performance and Durability of Rope....................................................................................................................... 211
T. B. De Boer, J. Braadbaart, J. O. Nieuwenkamp
SPE 166563 Novel Survey Method Using a Rotary Steerable System Significantly Improves the
Dynamic Inclination and Azimuth Measurement ........................................................................................................... 219
Ross Lowdon, Junichi Sugiura, Adam Bowler
SPE 166565 Umbilical Lay In Challenging Environmental Conditions........................................................................ 227
Renaud Gueret, Subhajit Lahiri
SPE 166566 Drillers’ Situation Awareness ...................................................................................................................... 239
R. C. Roberts, R. Flin, J. Cleland
SPE 166567 Integration and Assurance of Well Documents and Data – Essential Preparation for
Tomorrow........................................................................................................................................................................... 246
S. J. Sawaryn, L. Pirie, I. Green, A. Scott, B. Cosgrove, I. Emslie
SPE 166568 Positioning Challenges of the Arctic Subsea............................................................................................... 259
Sam Hanton
SPE 166569 Subsurface Interpretation and Pre-Messinian Deposits Prospectivity of the Algerian
Offshore Basin ................................................................................................................................................................... 270
Nahim Khennaf, Sadek Benabdelmoumen
SPE 166570 Hull Inspection Techniques & Strategies.................................................................................................... 278
Raymond Caldwell
SPE 166572 Compact Processing Solutions: Inline Gas-Liquid Separator On The Santos Wortel Field .................. 287
Imaduddin Imaduddin, Mika Tienhaara
SPE 166573 Understanding Of Fire Induced Progressive Collapse Of Offshore Structures As A Tool
For Reducing The PFP Requirements ............................................................................................................................. 293
Enrique Munoz-Garcia
SPE 166574 Shearwater - Securing the Chalk - Effects of Depletion of a HPHT Reservoir on Chalk
Overburden ........................................................................................................................................................................ 307
P. F. Van Bergen, S. De Gennaro, F. Fairhurst, R. Hurry, M. Concho, J. Watson, L. Sturgess, M. Bevaart
SPE 166575 Next Step In Offshore Heavy Oil - Mariner Reservoir Development....................................................... 315
Eirik A. Berg, Simone Silcock, Bodil Østbø-Bjåstad
SPE 166576 Subsea Water Treatment and Injection Station......................................................................................... 327
Jon-Erik Olsen, David Pinchin
SPE 166578 Corrib Low Temperature Start-up ............................................................................................................. 335
Rainier Duijts, Paul Nagle, Charles Smith, Sandrine Bourdel, Alexandre Levet, Camille Mahie
SPE 166579 Reservoir Management: Preparing for Field Redevelopment and Restart ............................................. 355
Hugh Rees, Jeff Parke
SPE 166581 Pull or No-pull: Risk-based Decision Support for Subsea Blowout Preventers (BOPs) ......................... 363
Pieter Van Asten
SPE 166583 Approximations of Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Recovery Factor in Viscous and
Heavy Oil Reservoirs......................................................................................................................................................... 368
Rafael Kaczmarczyk, Julio Herbas, Juan Del Castillo
SPE 166584 Abnormal Situation Management and its Relevance to Process Safety for Offshore
Operations .......................................................................................................................................................................... 377
Dal Vernon Reising, Peter Bullemer, Bruce Colgate
SPE 166585 The Return to the North Sea: Looking To Unlock Further Value ........................................................... 386
P. J. Mayland, B. Conley, W. De Boer, L. Robertson, R. Clark
SPE 166586 Development of Spilled Oil and Gas Tracking and Monitoring Autonomous Buoy System
and its Application to Marine Disaster Prevention......................................................................................................... 393
N. Kato, H. Senga, H. Suzuki, M. Choyekh, R. Kimura, T. Akamatsu, M. Yoshie, T. Tanaka, N. Sakagami
SPE 166587 Post-fire Structural Integrity of Composite Gratings for Offshore Platforms ........................................ 399
R. J. Holliday, A. G. Gibson, J. Humphrey, P. Di Modica, S. Christke, G. Kotsikos
SPE 166589 Structural Response Monitoring of Huntington HP Drilling and Completion Riser.............................. 405
A. Rimmer, B. Bamra, R. M. Allan, G. Proud, S. Davidson, B. Parker
SPE 166590 Following The Safe Evacuation of All Offshore Personnel...The Environmental Response
Takes Primacy: Learning From The Elgin G4 Well Major Incident ............................................................................ 421
Michael Dale, Rachel Keown, Gordon Wilson
SPE 166592 Critical Buckling Load Assessment of Drill Strings in Different Wellbores Using the
Explicit Finite Element Method........................................................................................................................................ 430
Mehdi Hajianmaleki, Jeremy S. Daily, Lev Ring, Raju Gandikota
SPE 166593 An Organisation-Wide Investigation Into The Human Factors-Related Causes Of
Hydrocarbon Releases On Offshore Platforms ............................................................................................................... 447
Jenny Gilroy, Derek Dumolo
SPE 166594 Is The Helicopter Safety Message Reaching the Right People? ................................................................ 456
Duncan Trapp
SPE 166595 Effect of Buried Depth on Quasi-Steady-State Heat Transfer Characteristics for Pipeline
Flow Assurance .................................................................................................................................................................. 463
Jungho Lee, Dong-Wook Oh, Jang Min Park, Kong Hoon Lee, Erich Zakarian
SPE 166596 NUGGETS Gas Field - Pushing the Operational Barriers........................................................................ 472
P. Saha, A. Parsa, J. Abolarin
SPE 166597 BP North Sea Miscible Gas Injection Projects Review.............................................................................. 488
Pinggang Zhang, James Brodie, Victoria Daae, Demet Erbas, Euan Duncan
SPE 166598 Barrel Chasing Through Well Interventions - Can We Get Better At This? .......................................... 499
S. Kitsios, C. A. Shields, S. Vroemen
SPE 166599 Integrated Marine and Integrity Monitoring of FPSOs in Hostile Environments - The
Importance of Observed Data........................................................................................................................................... 506
Louise Ledgard, Igor Prislin, Thomas L. Johnson
SPE 166602 10 Years Experience of North Sea FPSO Moorings Repair, Renewal and Life Extension
Work ................................................................................................................................................................................... 518
Martin G. Brown
SPE 166603 Role of Artificial Lift in Wells With a Downhole, Flow Control Completion .......................................... 529
Sandro Gasbarri, Khafiz Muradov, David Davies
SPE 166604 Seismic Full Waveform Inversion Improves Valhall Reservoir Management ........................................ 541
Kent Andorsen, Olav Barkved, Christian Idsøe, Lukasz Wrobel, Tron G. Kristiansen, Gunnar Tjetland
SPE 166607 Application of an Integrated Analysis of Pressure Transient Test and Numerical
Simulation for a Gas Condensate Reservoir.................................................................................................................... 546
C. K. Quispe Cerna, Rosangela B. Z. L. Moreno
SPE 166609 VRR < 1 Is Optimal for Heavy Oil Waterfloods ........................................................................................ 560
E. Vittoratos, C. C. West
SPE 166612 Estimated Fluid Contact Using Material Balance Technique and Volumetric Calculation
Improves Reservoir Management Plan............................................................................................................................ 569
P. Ghahri, G. Berthereau, S. Milner, M. Orta, A. S. Sikandar
SPE 166614 Ninian Southern Platform Jacket Repair Readiness Strategy: Development of a Modular
Hyperbaric Habitat System .............................................................................................................................................. 578
Gavin Mann, Mark Wilson, Robert Martin, Atkins Ian Branch
SPE 166615 A Guide to Better Wells: Environmental Life-Cycle Assessment of Historical, Current
and Future Best Practice in Drilling ................................................................................................................................ 601
Johan Berg Pettersen, Christine Hung, Christian Solli, Rosetta Steeneveldt, Scott Kerr, Nina Aas
SPE 166616 New Real-Time Casing Running Advisory System Reduces NPT ............................................................ 610
Colin J. Mason, Jan Kåre Igland, Edward J. Streeter, Per-Arild Andresen
SPE 166617 Improving the Economics of Marginal Fields through Technology Transfer from the
Defence and Renewables Industries ................................................................................................................................. 625
Paul Watson, Tim Stiven, Mike Mekhiche, Kate Edwards, Tamara Sebire, James Rixon, Chris Morris
SPE 166619 Real Time 24/7 Integrity Monitoring of Mooring Lines, Risers and Umbilicals on an
FPSO Using 360 Degree Multibeam Sonar Technology ................................................................................................. 646
Angus Lugsdin
SPE 166620 Providing Additional Offshore Resources Using “Walk to Work” at the Captain Field........................ 657
Gerald Pena, Stephen McKeown
SPE 166622 Cement Sheath Integrity in Fast Creeping Salts: Effect of Well Operations........................................... 668
S. Jandhyala, Y. R. Barhate, J. Anjos, C. E. Fonseca, K. Ravi
SPE 166623 Fulmar - Increased Production From A Mature Reservoir ...................................................................... 678
Nathalie Franck, Julian Slater Talisman
SPE 166625 Achieving Hull Structural Hotwork Repairs On Board an Operational FPSO ...................................... 689
Calum Maclean, Matthew Lewin
SPE 166626 Wave Glider - Introduction to Innovative Autonomous Remotely Piloted Ocean Data
Collection Platform............................................................................................................................................................ 697
Sudhir Pai
SPE 166627 Managing Mature Gas Fields in the Netherlands - Future Outlook ........................................................ 707
Ferhat Yavuz, Eric Kreft, Ricardo Gijbels
SPE 166629 Real Time Velocity and Pore Pressure Model Calibration in Exploration Drilling................................ 712
Julia Kemper, Martin Richards, Matthew Taylor, Neil Kelsall, Marcus Turner, Jean Claude Puech
SPE 166630 The Mid-Atlantic Current Hindcast ........................................................................................................... 729
M. J. Bell, C. K. O’Neill, J. Waters, M. J. Martin, A. Sellar, A. T. Cox, S. A. Spall, R. V. Stephens
SPE 166631 Installation of a Pre-Assembled Unit on an FPSO & Replacement of a Platform Crane ....................... 749
William Wright
SPE 166635 Methods for Community Mapping Using Integrated Biological and Side-Scan Sonar Data ................. 764
Y. Gubanova, A. Isachenko, M. Tokarev, V. Mokievsky, P. P. Shirshov
SPE 166637 The Benefits and Challenges of Maintaining Offshore Structures within Lift-Installed
Parameters ......................................................................................................................................................................... 779
David Maclare
SPE 166638 The Successful Implementation of a Competency Program in a Large Global
Organization: A Case Study ............................................................................................................................................. 789
Jorge Leuro, Todd Kruger
SPE 166639 An Assessment of the Impact of Water Injection System Uptime on Well and Reservoir
Management on Two Northsea FPSOs ............................................................................................................................ 802
Olawale Adeola
SPE 166640 Total Risk Approach .................................................................................................................................... 809
Dimitri A Schellings
SPE 166641 Unlocking Small Gas Field Development In The Southern North Sea With The
Application Of Modern Seismic Imaging Technologies ................................................................................................. 822
Mathieu Darnet, Peter Van Loevezijn, Frans Hollman, Rob Wervelman, Matthias Bruehl, Juan Pi Alperin, Richard
Shipp
SPE 166644 Qualification of InLine DeWatering Technology....................................................................................... 825
R. W. Westra, B. L. Knudsen, H. Bjartnes, B. Ibouhouten
SPE 166647 Integrated Play-Based Exploration Methodology for Screening and Prospect Assessment
Using 3D Seismic Data from Makassar Strait, Indonesia............................................................................................... 836
Ananda Shankar Roy, Sonali Roy, Pebrina Puspa Sari
SPE 166649 Using Technology as a Lever to Reduce Seismic and Environmental Interference ................................ 845
C. R. Allinson, W. A. Jardine
SPE 166650 Relative Permeability Characterization for Water-Alternating-Gas (WAG) Injection in
Oil Reservoirs..................................................................................................................................................................... 855
H. Shahverdi, M. Sohrabi, S. M. Fatemi
SPE 166651 E-Case - Managing Expectations................................................................................................................. 867
Jos Tissen, Ian Buchan
SPE 166652 Use of Sonar Metering to Optimize Production in Liquid Loading Prone Gas Wells ............................ 872
C. A. Shields, M. Dollard, S. Sridhar, G. Dragnea, M. Illingsworth
SPE 166654 Successful Approach to Push ERD Limit, Optimize Production, and Optimize Reserve
Recovery of an Extended Reach Oil Field ....................................................................................................................... 888
Xiaoping Zou, Yingshi Huang, Youliang Zeng, Xiuying Li, Guoda Yu, Thanh Tran, Palindungan Monris
Halomoan, Amarjit Singh Bisain, Jeanmi Denichou
SPE 166656 Tight Hole Spotting in 3D Virtual Drilling Simulator ............................................................................... 902
S. A. Mirhaj, V. A. Oteri, G. Sælevik
SPE 166657 Case History: First Intelligent Well with Feed-Through Zonal Isolation in a Multilateral
Sidetrack Completion in the Troll Field .......................................................................................................................... 909
Bjørn Olav Dahle, Leon Prebeau-Menezes, Peter E. Smith, Geir Gjelstad
SPE 166661 Flow-Induced Vibrations of Subsea Piping: A Screening Approach Based on Numerical
Simulation .......................................................................................................................................................................... 918
J. P. Pontaza, B. Abuali, G. W. Brown, F. J. Smith
Author Index