Contents | 2ND QUARTER 2010
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January - December 2009
5 Editorial comment
Jack-up rig market is in deep water
6-17 News
6-11 News 12-17 Equipment News
18-19 In-depth
18-19 environment: I Flared gas recovery becomes commercial reality
20-42 Features
Feature 1 Rules and regulations
20-22 Well Intervention Units: faster, deeper, cheaper
23-24 RS puts safety first in field of oil and gas 25 RINa to class first offshore LNG FSRU
Feature 2 Support vessels
26-27 Simek delivers North Sea PSV to Simon Møkster
28-29 Craig Group welcomes support vessels for Chevron
30 Second emergency support vessel for Topaz 32 De Hoop delivers support vessel to Noordhoek
Feature 3 Deck and hydraulic equipment
34-35 Innovative anchor concept for deepwater operations
36-37 MacGregor crane orders add to growing subsea market
Feature 4 Gulf of Mexico
38 Next generation deepwater drilling rig begins ops in US GoM
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39 Keppel AmFELS delivers Tuxpan jack-up to Mexico
40 Harvey Gulf inks deal for new OSV
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Feature 5 Jack-up rigs
41-42 Gusto MSC wows market with wind turbine installation design
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