BIG CHALLENGE MET BY INNOVATIVE MIND

摘要

As onshore oil yields decline andrnnear-shore fields are tapped out, oil development is pushing into ever-deeper waters. The engineering challenges of deepwater production demand innovative thinking and vastly increase the risks of opening new fields.rnThe oil industry saw development of the deepwater Lower Tertiary trend 200 miles south of Freeport, Texas, containing an estimated 3 billion to 15 billion barrels of oil as a daunting enterprise.