Silver Sponsor: Aramco innovation solving offshore challenges … – Chron.com

By Rebecca Maitland, correspondent

Silver Sponsor: Aramco innovation solving offshore challenges

Saudi Aramco continues to strengthen and expand its offshore oil and gas exploration and production program to meet growing global energy demand. Innovation and collaboration are two approaches the integrated energy and chemicals company takes in many areas to safely deliver energy around the world.

For example, new offshore transportation models, engineering excellence, and collaborative efforts with global offshore drilling contractors and offshore engineering and construction firms such as Rowan Companies and McDermott International Inc. illustrate Aramco's continued long-term commitment to its core upstream sector.

Also, delivering rig crews and critical equipment to and from some of the world's largest offshore oil fields is no easy task, yet Saudi Aramco's active network of offshore fields continue to be serviced safely and efficiently. The company's marine department instituted a Sea Bus Service employing Fast Crew Supply Vessels (FCSVs) instead of conventional crew boats and helicopters. With significant cost savings, the program uses fewer vessels, thereby reducing the helicopter fleet load and greenhouse gas emissions.

This program began early last year with more than 45,000 passengers safely transported to rigs from the Tanajib Marine Facility, located on the northeast coast of the Arabian Gulf. The company anticipates approximately 55,000 passengers will be transferred each year by the service.

Saudi Aramco's research and development advances will be recognized during OTC with three Meritorious Awards for Engineering Innovation from one of the world's largest energy industry publishers, Hart Energy.

With more complex onshore and deeper-water offshore plays driving demand for improved subsurface depth imaging, Aramco's Exploration and Petroleum Engineering Center - Advanced Research Center (EXPEC ARC) has been pushing the limits of seismic resolution advances and data imaging approaches.

"Seismic and EM Joint Inversion for Accurate Depth Images" was the winning entry in Hart's Exploration Category. Aramco will receive two awards in the Formation Evaluation Category for "3D Mapping of Reservoir Saturation from Crosswell Electromagnetic in Horizontal Wells" and "Multifunctional Nano-Tracers with In-situ Detection."

Expanding global relationships, Aramco and McDermott recently signed a memorandum of understanding to create a regional engineering and offshore fabrication hub for offshore structures at the King Salman International Complex for Maritime Industries and Services in Ras Al Khair, Saudi Arabia.

Aramco has also entered into a landmark agreement with Rowan Companies to create a joint venture offshore drilling program to own, operate and manage jackup drilling rigs in the Kingdom.

At OTC, visit Saudi Aramco, booth #1861, to learn about company activities, research and development programs, or expatriate career opportunities. http://www.aramco.jobs.

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