Deepwater Petroleum Exploration
and Production:
A Nontechnical Guide
by William L. Leffler
and Gordon Sterling

Written by a team of offshore pioneers, Deepwater Petroleum Exploration and Production: A Nontechnical Guide is the most comprehensive and authoritative text available on the business, engineering, and technology of this multi-billion dollar industry.

Readers will find extensive coverage of all aspects of deepwater operations—including an historic background and an outlook to future deepwater operations. The authors compare and contrast offshore operations to the shelf and onshore operations throughout the text.

Packed with pictures, graphs, and illustrations, readers will turn to this handy reference many times throughout their career for valuable information on:

• Deepwater exploration
• Drilling and completing wells
• Development systems
• Fixed structures
• Floating production systems
• Subsea systems
• Topsides
• Pipelines, flowlines, and risers

Contents

1. Introduction
2. List of Acronyms
3. A Century Getting Ready
4. Letting Go of the Past
5. Exploring the Deepwater
6. Drilling and Completing Wells
7. Development Systems
8. Fixed Structures
9. Floating Production Systems
10. Subsea Systems
11. Topsides
12. Pipelines, Flowlines, and Risers
13. Technology and the Third Wave

Index

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