The odyssey - Site Map

The odyssey - Site Map

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		In the beginning The Big-bang Gravitation Geology Exploration The petroleum geophysist The petroleum geologist Exploratory well The drill string The drill-bits Drilling a deflected well Offshore drilling platforms Drilling technologies Development Nkossa Production Frigg The oil producers Refining Demand evolution Separation processes Conversion processes Performance enhancement processes
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		Exploratory well Offshore drilling platforms Production Offshore production Oil by sea Aboard a tanker Portrait Exploration Michel Nutten Exploratory well Michèle Rigaud Claude Dardeau

In the beginning

Exploration

Exploratory well

Big Bang
Solar system
The Earth
Advent of life
Life, and death
Decomposition
Sedimentation
Motion
Maturation
Migration
Trapping

Buried treasure
Detective...
Host of clues
An ear...
Seismic surveys
Treatment
Offshore
Calculation
Now what?

Suspicions
Where to drill
Mast
Drill assembly
Hoghead
Comparing...
Core sampling
Uncertainty
Testing
Appraisal
Offshore
Deflected Wells

Development

Production

Oil Trade

Considering...
Making decision
Men at work
Prod. well
Special types...
Pipe networks
Prod. center
Life on site

Green light
Producing
Treatment
Enhanced...
Stimulating...
Safety
Reappraisal
Last drop
Offshore

Oil geography
Flash-back
Oil crisis
Reactions of...
Effect on trade
Financial risks
Hedging risks
Markets...
Crudes...

Oil by sea

Refining

Under
construction

A necessity
Organisation...
Types of tanker
The tanks
The engine room
The bridge castel
Shipping routes
Influences...
Safety

Different oils
Basic principles
Separation
Conversion
Performance
Blending