65 sept Voice 2012 of the ISSN 1948-3031 Industry Offshore Energy Edition In This Issue: Important and Necessary: The Rising Requirement of Oil Behind The Scenes Of A Cable Repair: A Brief Overview Improving System Procurement: Can We Make a Difference? ISSN No. 1948-3031 PUBLISHER: Wayne Nielsen MANAGING EDITOR: Kevin G. Summers riday the 14th. My day started at new systems are being delayed or even the orthopedic surgeon’s office scrapped due to the scarcity of financing, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Stewart Ash, where I was told that in order to get and older systems are being rejuvenated Derek Cassidy, Digital Energy Journal, Stephen F Jarvis, Stephen Lentz, Vicky Liang, Kris Ohleth, another half century out of my shoulder, to last that little bit longer. 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Despite some initial issues with Book, as of 2009, the world was must always be machines to produce overheating, requiring replacement of Ausing 83.62 million bbl/day of it and people to produce the machines. parts, it has proven to be as effective as it oil, which has risen to 85.51 bbl/day in Believing in this dream, countries around has been proclaimed. one year. The US alone used just over 18.5 the world have begun efforts to create million of that, thirty percent of which large-scale energy farms, specifically Since then, a number of new farm projects comes from offshore oil. In one year, this taking advantage of wind. have been started in many other countries. went up to 19.1 million bbl/day. Despite Some include a number of places in the recent push for more renewable energy In 2010, Germany completed Alpha America, approval in Ontario, Canada, sources, the need for oil has only increased. Ventus, an offshore wind farm. It promised and recently released news that China will enough energy to power 50,000 homes (220 require its dominant electricity producers Renewable energy is the dream of the gigawatts), and was hailed as the first of to have at least 15% of their energy coming energy industry. Clean, consistent energy many such efforts as large multi-national from wind. that will never run out and, best of all, companies sought approval to create their Being a relatively new niche market, the Offshore Fiber industry only really took off during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Since then, the low latency and reliability of fiber has proven to be an asset to platform owners, shown above as a steady increase in total kilometers of fiber added per year. Once the technology was proven, the demand for fiber doubled in 2008, almost 10 years after fiber started to become widely accepted. As the applications for fiber expand, the total number of systems and the required fiber is expected to grow exponentially. In 2001, the total length of all fiber cable in use was less than 1,800 Km, by 2020 that number is anticipated to increase over 550%. 8 And of this sounds very good; the dream require a wind farm roughly 68,018 square the same problems. On the large scale, it of clean energy. But the realities can be miles. Even offshore, that’s a large chunk simply isn’t viable; whether because of the a bit daunting. Alpha Ventus, arguably of land. amount of space it requires or the cost to the most effective use of wind energy to returns. For the time being, fossil fuels are date, produces 220 gigawatts annually. In This isn’t to say that wind energy doesn’t the only option. Oil predominantly. the same time, America uses 3.741 trillion serve a purpose. Combined with the kWh (3,741,000 gigawatt hours). The AV other renewable energy sources, green Offshore oil has become a particularly wind farm take up roughly four square technology can shave down the extremely important facet of the industry. According miles. To produce the kind of energy the large drain the world does on oil. to the Interior Department, as of 2010 there nation would need with wind alone would However, all such technology runs in to were 3,500 offshore platforms.