Agree or disagree with the following sentences:

1) More than half of the gas needed over the next 25 years will come from under the ocean bed.

2) In future the oil we need will have to be found at far greater depths.

3) All the cylindrical cells of the base are used for storing oil.

4) The Condeep platform consists of three cylindrical cells.

5) The Condeep platform can be used for drilling and as a production platform.

6) The complete platform is built in a dry dock and then floated out to the site.

 

41. Use Passive Voice in the following sentences:

1) The third column (to use) for services.

2) Production facilities (to need) to get the oil out of the ground.

3) They (can use) for drilling.

4) The base (to build) in a dry dock last year.

5) The deck (to support) by columns.

 

42. Put in the prepositions about, from, of, out, over, to, under:

1) Sixteen of the cells are used to store … a million barrels of oil.

2) These cells form a base … 300 feet in diameter, … which three columns project to support the deck.

3) The base has to be floated … a deep water site.

4) I'm sure we'll need a lot … oil … the next 25 years.

5) And most … this oil will come … … the ocean bed.

 

43. Change the following sentences from Direct into Indirect speech:

1) My friend said “I prefer to work on the submersible drilling platform.”

2) The captain said “Yesterday we started drilling of the first well.”

3) The diver told his colleague “I will carry out the underwater welding of
this pipe tomorrow.”

4) The sailor asked “When will the supply vessel arrive?”

5) The geologists asked the engineer “Why did you use this equipment to repair the derrick?”

6) The electro engineer said to the boatswain “Don't use this winch.”

7) Alex asked his friend “Do you see anything on the helicopter deck?”

8) The engineer said “The logging equipment is being surveyed by the specialists now.”

44. Reproduce the text given below in English:

Вспомогательное буровое судно Коммандор

Вспомогательное буровое судно Коммандор было построено в 1996 г. Это буровая установка, способная осуществлять мониторинг дистанционно управляемых средств (remotedly operated vehicle). Судно имеет вертолетную палубу в кормовой части. Она может принимать любые вертолеты, включая вертолеты класса Супер Пума.

Буровая шахта расположена посередине судна. Площадь обсадной колонны судна больше, чем у ее предшественников (predecessors). Глубоководное бурение возможно осуществлять как через буровую шахту, так и с борта судна. На судне имеется современное навигационное оборудование, системы динамического позиционирования, акустическая система.

Судно приводится в движение четырьмя мощными дизелями, кроме этого на судне установлено два подруливающих устройства (thrusters), имеющих силу тяги (thrust) 8 тонн, а также винт фиксированного шага (fixed pitch propeller) и винт регулируемого шага (variable pitch propeller).

Количество членов экипажа - 80. Все члены экипажа размещают­ся в одноместных и двуместных каютах. На судне имеется спортзал, прачечная, кают-компания, кинозал, библиотека. Что касается спасательных средств, здесь есть две 60-местные самодвижущиеся шлюпки.

Unit 4

Norwegian Ports of Oil and Gas Industry

Read and translate the text using the vocabulary below

North Sea Gold

South Rogaland is the centre of oil and gas industry of Norway. The main ports of this area are Sola, Sandness, Rogaland, Stavanger. Some of the biggest names in the oil industry have set up business in the ports of South Rogaland and contribute enormously to the local economy. As investment in oil development goes up they are here to stay.

Stavanger and South Rogaland are the undisputed oil capital of Nor­way, with oil and offshore activity responsible for 60 per cent of jobs across the region. More than 20 000 people in Rogaland owe their live-hoods to the oil industry including several thousand working for more than 100 companies at both Dusavik and Tanager offshore bases. Almost every kind of oil related activity, from the construction of platforms and drilling equipment by huge multinational organisations to the provision of supplies and services by a host of smaller, specialised companies, is represented in the region.

And with more than 60 billion NOK set to be invested in the Norwegian oil industry over the next few years, the importance of oil to the region shows no sign of declining for at least the next 50 years.

The region's decision to seize the initiative has led to 12 international oil companies and more than 100 international service and technology companies establishing operations in South Rogaland since the discovery of oil back in the late 1960s. These include Statoil, BP, Shell, Norsk Hydro, Saga, Total, Norske Agip, Esso, Amoco etc, while Norway Directorate of oil is also based in the Stavanger region.

Norske Shell's depot and refinery at Sola alone handles 5.45 million tons of gas and fuel oil a year, ensuring that the company enjoys a 20 percent share of the Norwegian gasoline market.

Phillips Petroleum Company Norway, which currently employs 1,350 staff on platforms in the eight most southern North Sea fields uses offshore base at Sola's Tananger terminal to provide 320,000 tons of supplies yearly to Ekofisk. The company has been a key player in the Norwegian oil sector since making the first commercial find of oil nearly 30 years ago.

Phillips' 30 platforms in the Ekofisk field, located 1.5 days steaming time from Tananger or a 90 minute helicopter ride, have to date pro­duced more than two billion barrels of oil and nine million cubic feet of gas for the European market.

Aker Maritime Group is another huge oil company working in the re­gion, it is the parent company of Aker Base, which operates offshore supply bases at Dusavik and Tananger, is a market leader in the pro­duction of floating production platform systems, with 20 percent of all "floaters" worldwide having been built to its designs. The Group, also re­sponsible for the concept development and construction of several land-based terminals and plants, has designed 50 percent of the world's newest Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessels. Multi-faceted Aker Maritime also provides loading and discharging equipment for offshore installations and tankers, ships' gears and complete mooring system for FPSO vessels. The Group employs 12,000 staff worldwide with 300 being based at Aker Base's Dusavik and Tananger offshore supply bases. The company is operator for the larg­est supply bases in the North Sea. Its two bases at Dusavik and Tananger each cover an area of 400,000 square metres.

At Dusavik Aker Base has its main shore base consisting of 700 me­tres of deep water quay and the base itself- which includes warehous­ing, open air and tubular storage and quayside facilities. It is home to more than 60 oil an service companies involved in a variety of activities. Aker Base's modern Tananger supply base is also a leading supplier, both to the offshore industry as well as the service company is working in close co-operation with the oil companies, liner companies and agents to introduce regular liner services between its supply bases.

It needs to say that the Stavanger region is also home to market leading offshore fabrication companies Kvaerner Rosenberg, Norwegian Contractors and Offshore & Marine.

Kvaerner Rosenberg, part of the Kvaerner Group, operates the Port of Stavanger's 100-year old Kvaerner Verft terminal, which is now one of the world's leading offshore fabrication yards producing a range of rigs, platforms and floating production units.

More than 1,400 staff currently work at the high-tech terminal which counts the construction of the multi-billion US dollar "Sea Launch" float­ing rocket platform, designed to launch satellites into space, among its most recently completed projects.

Although the demand for deep sea concrete oil installations has dra­matically declined in recent years, Stavanger based Norwegian Con­tractors remains at forefront of the field.

The company has installed some of the largest oil and gas platforms ever built, including the 370-metre high Troll platform which provides 10 per cent of the gas consumed in Western Europe.

Offshore & Marine AS uses its 40,000 sq. metre facility at the Port of Sandness for the design, fabrication and maintenance of drilling and production equipment for vessels and rigs operating within the Norwe­gian offshore market.

Dusavik base operator Smedvig Offshore AS uses its 180,000 sq. metre facility to provide vital supplies and equipment to both its North Sea rigs and to Philips Petroleum Norway Company platforms at Eko-fisk.

Smedvig which owns and operates three semisubmersible drilling rigs as well as two huge jack-up rigs, is a market leader in the operation of worldwide self-erecting tender rigs and a key developer of advanced mobile production units.

Globally the company focus is on well construction and maintenance, mobile production and reservoir technology.

Both the Port of Stavanger Dusavik offshore base and Sola's Tananger terminal are home to a host of service sector companies de­voted to serving the North Sea oil industry. They include Nor-Cargo, D.Danielsen, Norwegian Exploration Service (Norex), Halliburton etc.

Other important service organizations based in the Stavanger region include IBM, Schlumberger, Scana Industries and RF-Rogaland Re­search, which is investigating ways of environmentally disposing of over the next 30 years.

Indeed oil is of such importance to Stavanger and the surrounding re­gion that Rogaland's capital city hosts numerous conferences and exhi­bitions on the subject, including the biannual Offshore Northern Seas (ONS) international oil fair, attended by more than 1,000 companies and nearly 30,000 visitors.

Oil currently accounts for 60% of activities at the ports of both Sta­vanger and Sola and is expected to continue to do so for years to come as the search for new fields in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, blessed with almost limitless supplies of natural gas, goes on into the next millenium.

Vocabulary

undisputed	бесспорный
to owe	быть обязанным
livehood	средства к жизни
a host	множество
to seize	захватывать
depot	хранилище
gasoline	бензин
slot	прорезь
tubular storage	трубохранилище
wellhead	устье скважины
concrete gravity base structure	бетонное основание гравитационного типа (удерживается за на месте счет собственного веса и веса балласта)
quayside facilities	причальные сооружения
forefront	передний край
tender rig	тендерная платформа, используемая для размещения части оборудования и материалов при бурении со стационар­ного основания
to bless	благословлять
millennium	тысячелетие

2. Answer the following questions:

1. What are the main oil and gas ports in Norway?

2. Do many people in Rogaland owe their livehoods due to the oil industry?

3. What kinds of activity are represented in the region?

4. How large are the investments in the Norwegian oil industry?

5. Are there any signs of declining of oil importance?

6. What kinds of companies are establishing their opera­tions in the South Rogaland?

7. What company dominates in the North Sea fields?

8. How long has this company been a key player in the Norwegian oil sector?

9. How much oil does this company produce?

10. Where does Aker Maritime operate offshore supply bases?

11. What kind of company is Aker Maritime Group?

12. What kinds of structures does it build?

13. What does Aker Maritime provide?

14. Where are the bases of Aker?

15. What does Dusavik Aker Base include?

16. What does Aker supply base co-operate with? What for?

17. What other com­panies operate in the Stavanger region?

18. Has the demand for deep sea concrete oil installations declined recently?

19. What kind of oil in­stallations has the Norwegian Contractors produced?

20. What compa­nies uses facilities of the Port of Sandness, the port of Sola and the Port of Stavanger else?

21. How can you prove the importance of oil to Stavanger?

22. Is oil expected to be very important for the Norwegian ports in the next millenium?

3. Express the main idea of the text. Retell it according to the following plan:

1. South Rogaland as the centre of the Norwegian oil and gas industry Main ports of the region.

2. Significance of offshore oil extraction for South Rogaland.

3. The port of Sola.

4. Dusavik Aker Base, the leader in production of offshore installations.

5. Stavanger region leading offshore fabrication companies.

6. Service companies operating in South Rogaland.

7. Prospects of development of oil and gas industry in Norway.

4. Translate into English using Subjunctive Mood:

1) Что бы вы сделали, если бы вы завтра оказались в одном из портов южного Рогаланда?

2) Если бы 10 лет назад норвежцам, живущим на юге страны, рассказали бы об огромных запасах морской нефти, они бы не поверили.

3) Нефтяная компания Акер использовала бы все портовые сооружения порта Сола, если бы у нее была такая возможность.

4) Если бы в следующем году компания Филипс Петролеум закончила бы строительство газопровода, газ мог бы доставляться с месторождений прямо в хранилища.

5) Если бы в прошлом году строительная фирма закончила бы сооружение этого трубохранилища, в порту было бы гораздо больше свободного места.

6) Чем бы занимались жители Ставангера, если бы нефтегазовая промышленность не была развита в этом регионе?

7) Сократился бы спрос на бетонные основания гравитационного типа, если бы в Норвегии строилось бы больше плавучих самоподъемных плат­форм?

8) Я бы предпочел работать на нефтеперерабатывающем заводе в порту, чем ходить в море, если бы у меня сейчас была возможность выбирать себе работу.

5. Reproduce the text given below in English: