Contents | 4TH QUARTER 2008
5 Editorial comment
Editor Angela Velasco A class of their own
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6-9 News
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6-7 News
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8-9 Equipment news
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10 In-depth
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Feature 1 Gulf of Mexico
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12-13 The frontier: ultra-deepwater Gulf of Mexico
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14-15 First FPSO for GoM
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Feature 2 FPSO technology
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18-19 First FPSO for PetroProd
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20 Aker Solutions awarded contracts
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21 Keppel Shipyard expands FPSO repertoire
23 FPSOs dominate offshore industry boom
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Feature 3 Environment and renewable energy
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24 Commercial wave power project goes live
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25 Six biofuel agreements for Shell
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25-26 Catching the breeze
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the fi rst FPSO
bound for
GoM.
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Pelamis wave converters during
sea trials.
Aker Ram-
Winches
shown
onboard
Independent
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