My last decade of work at Gosplan also required me to identify and bring on stream new technologies.

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To bring it on stream by January 2012 with the required development of new high pressure equipment is really quite a feat.

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While conventional assets are relatively easy to develop and historically have offered good returns, projects in some more technically difficult sectors like deep-water and LNG typically take longer to bring on-stream, and are higher cost, meaning returns are lower.

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