The risk of epidemics represents an important challenge in offshore petroleum activities. All personnel are needed for regular operations, and the outbreak of an epidemic will soon affect the operations. The economical consequences can be vast. The risk of an epidemic is raised due to the closeness of living and catering offshore combined with frequent changes of personnel who travel offsho...

The exploration community, from the earth scientist to the investment manager, has surely recognized the recent surge of interest in the use of controlled source electromagnetics for offshore hydrocarbon detection and assessment. The targets, petroleum, natural gas and gas hydrate, are resistive zones in an otherwise conductive background. I trace the academic and commercial development of mari...

The paper introduces the Oil-Slick Hub (OSH), a computational platform to facilitate data visualization of large database petroleum signatures observed on surface ocean with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) measurements. This Internet offers an information search and retrieval system resulting from >20 years scientific projects that interpreted ~15 thousand offshore mineral oil “slicks”: natur...

Off-shore petroleum exploration nowadays routinely uses the marine controlled-source (MCSEM) survey, which consists of a set of sea-bottom receivers and a moving electrical bipole transmitter. We show that the MCSEM survey with its dense system of transmitters and receivers, is extremely well suited for application of the holography/migration method. The combined EM signal in the receivers form...

BACKGROUND Since 1992, physicians have reported work-related diseases among workers in Norway's offshore petroleum industry to the Petroleum Safety Authority, as required by law. AIMS To analyse the number of reported work-related musculoskeletal disorders and risk factors (occupation and reported exposure) from 1992 to 2003. METHODS Data from the Petroleum Safety Authority's registry of wo...

The offshore oil industry is an important industry employing a huge number of employees, involving a huge amount of money, having a huge influence on national and international economies, and thereby representing a huge political impact and influence. Despite being a huge industry, it has many characteristics of a small family. The number of operators, service-companies, and contractors is rela...

An offshore elements layout project consists of positioning oil wells, manifolds and platforms in offshore areas, as well as routing the pipelines that connect these elements. The design process involves a set of restrictions, a great number of decisions and an infinite number of design alternatives. This paper presents a new model to solve this problem based on combining two strategies: divide...

When individual petroleum-producing firms make their exploration decisions, information externalities and extraction externalities may lead them to interact strategically with their neighbors. If they do occur, strategic interactions in exploration would lead to a loss in both firm profit and government royalty revenue. Since these strategic interactions would be inefficient, changes in the gov...