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Key Technologies in Deepwater

and Arctic Development

TechnoForum2014, Tokyo, Japan

November 27, 2014

Technical Development Team

Technical Solutions Project Group

Offshore Oil & Gas Resources 1

Offshore Oil & Gas Productions

Off

sho

re (

%)

Year

Oil & Gas Production ・ Oil ： 30% of world total production（25 MMbpd from offshore）

・ Gas ： 25% of world total production（60 MMscfd from offshore）

Oil

Gas

Source：Offshore Engineering Handbook (JOGMEC)

Discovery of Deepwater Fields 2

Deepwater discovery in GOM, Brazil, West Africa and Asia/Oceania

Source：Offshore Engineering Handbook

(JOGMEC)

Drilling Records 3

Drilling Records Source：Offshore Engineering Handbook (JOGMEC)

4 Potential of Arctic Resources

Source：The USGS Circum –Arctic Resource Appraisal for the work

Arctic reserves; Oil: 90 Bbbl , Natural Gas: 1,670 Tcf

5 Oil & Gas Activities in Greenland

Block 9

Block 14

Successful Award of Exploration Licenses offshore Greenland

GreenPex: 29.1667%

Chevron: 29.1667%

Shell: 29.1667%

Nunaoil: 12.5% Source: JOGMEC’s News Release

6 Overview of Offshore Development

Source：Offshore Engineer July 2005

1. Exploration

4. Production

2. Drilling

3. Construction

Floating System

Wave

Current

Wind Shuttle tanker

Riser System Mooring System

DP(Dynamic

Positioning) System

Proven

Ice strength structure

Proven

Ice strength structure

Weight saving, high tension

Ice-load, dis-connectable

Proven

Ice load

Weight saving, high tension

Ice collision

Subsea

System

For Deepwater Oil & Gas

For Arctic Oil & Gas

Installation

Maintenance

Stable operation

Ice

Environmental Condition

7

8

high-

tension

rope

High-tension rope for mooring system

Wave

Current

Wind

polyester

rope

Reducing drift

offset

Carbon fiber composite cable application

to TLP’s tendons

Source: TOKYO ROPE MFG. CO., LTD.

Tendon of TLP

Source: Offshore Engineering Handbook (JOGMEC)

Light weight, high tensile strength and flexible stranded shape cable.

TOKYO ROPE MFG. CO., LTD.

9

4 m

0 50 100 150 200 250km

20W 15W 10W 5W

20W 15W 10W 5W25W30W35W 5E0

80N

78N

76N

74N

72N

80N

78N

76N

74N

72N

80N

74N

Greenland

Study Area

Pre-Round Licensing Area

Ordinary-Round Licensing Area

Month

North Japan Port Consultants Co., Ltd.

0.0

0.5

1.0

1.5

2.0

2.5

3.0

3.5

4.0

Aug-93 Oct-93 Dec-93 Feb-94 Apr-94 Jun-94 Aug-94 Oct-94

Ice

Thic

kn

ess, m

Month

Measured

Calculated

Ice

Th

ick

nes

s (m

)

*Vinje, T., 1998. Journal of Geophysical Research,

Vol. 103, No. C5, pp. 10,437-10,449.

Ice

Concentration

10

The University of Tokyo

Snap Shot for analysis

Drift Angle : 15°

National Maritime Research Institute

Kitami Institute of Technology

Kogakuin University

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