Expandable tubulars (ET) are being used increasingly by the oil and gas industry during the drilling, completion and workover phases of wells. Expandable systems potentially offer great economic benefit by... more

Reservoir modeling has undergone a revolution in the last decade or so. Like all revolutions, it has had a long and difficult birth, with technical experts railing against the shortcomings... more

An operating company exploring for and producing CBM from vertical wells in the eastern United States has increased its anticipated 5-year cumulative CBM production by 40%, and its estimated ultimate... more

Project expansion plans and recent increases in operating temperature led Denbury Resources Inc. (DRI) to re-evaluate the CO2 compression facilities at the Little Creek Tertiary Recovery Project. DRI operates a tertiary... more

Seismic reflections depend on the contrast of the compressional and shear (P and S) wave velocity and density in the subsurface while the velocity and density, in turn, depend on... more

One advantage of the integrated geomechanics process that has probably not received as much emphasis as it should have is the internal consistency of the resulting modeling output at all... more

Part of the Gullfaks field has been repeatedly surveyed seismically so that surface seismic data are available as three partial stacks for 1985, 1996, 1999 and 2003, respectively. Time-lapse, or... more

Norway's Ekofisk field area and Total's Frigg complex in the North Sea are driving development of new decommissioning solutions. Overall, the Frigg field abandonment project was priced at US $417... more

The mudslide area of the Gulf of Mexico - where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf - is home to enormous platforms. When this area was developed, the instability of... more

There has been much debate about investment, or more accurately lack of investment, for decommissioning, but as a basis for investment the only relevant fact is that decommissioning is inevitable.... more

Marrying oil production with offshore wind power sounds far-fetched right now. However, I cannot help but begin to wonder about the prospect while decommissioning seems so important in the North... more

Using a rotary jetting nozzle and engineering software that configures the nozzle and jet impact pressure, BJ Services effectively and safely removes production-restricting damage from screens and gravel pack completions.... more

The Econolift system can be deployed via wireline into a tubing string to provide a gas lift boost where none exists in the original completion or where an existing valve... more

Intervention expert Stephen Stragiotti is a big fan of Well Tractors, which his company helped to develop nearly a decade ago and are now used extensively throughout the Norwegian Continental... more

NORTH AMERICA Harry J. Longwell, executive vice president of ExxonMobil Corp., will retire at the end of 2004. Nabors Industries promoted Joe M. Hudson to the position of president, Nabors Drilling... more

Two key issues are on a collision course - Nigeria's increasing role in supplying critical energy to world markets and its escalating lawlessness. What needs to be done to ensure... more

1. V.F., Neuhaus Properties, McAllen, Texas, and Makoil Inc., Las Vegas, Nev., both plan wildcats in Railroad Valley, Nevada's most prolific producing region. The Neuhaus 36-1 Little Giant is in... more

1. The US Minerals Management Service Western Gulf of Mexico Sale 192 gathered US $171 million in high bids from 54 companies. In all, the government agency received 421 bids... more

1. New UK energy minister Mike O'Brien offered 97 new offshore licenses to 58 companies including 15 newcomers in the UK's 22nd offshore licensing round, which offered acreage throughout the... more

1. Canadian independent First Calgary Petroleums revealed that its LES-1 exploration well on its 100% held Ledjmet Block 405b in Algeria has hit 197 ft (60 m) of pay dirt.... more

1. Colombiana de Petroleo, Colombia's state oil regulator, signed a contract giving ExxonMobil and Petrobras exploration and production rights on the10.7-million-acre Tayrona parcel offshore in the Caribbean Sea from Cartagena... more

1. Toreador Resources found gas as it drilled its Ayazli-1 exploratory well on the South Akcakoca prospect southwest of Istanbul in the Black Sea. It reached gas in the Miocene... more

1. Canada's Tanganyika Oil said independent assessor Sproule International has updated and increased its estimate of reserves at the Oudeh field in Syria. Total 3P (proved, probable plus possible) oil... more

1. China's largest oil company, China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), is interested in working with state-owned Philippine National Oil Co. (PNOC) to develop onshore oil and gas reserves. CNPC's interest... more

In this issue of E&P you'll find a feature on rock physics. There are those who question the importance of this topic and wonder if it warrants six pages of... more

Years ago (just take it at that) I drilled a well in the Gulf of Mexico that involved a number of sidetracks (less than 10). In the process of trying... more

Dwarfing all neighboring construction projects in Texas' Ingleside shipyard complex, and swarming with more than 750 workers, BP's Thunder Horse floating PDQ facility is readying for a first-quarter 2005 sailaway.... more

A well planned and executed well stimulation is one of the primary methods to enhance production from both oil and gas reservoirs and increase injectivity to injection and disposal wells.... more

When it comes to oil and gas projects and the environmental crowd, we are being bombarded with a number of new acronyms. You are probably all familiar with NIMBY (not... more

"You can't teach an old dog new tricks" conjures up a blue tick hound sprawled on the front porch of a rustic farm house on a lazy summer day. While... more

Given Weatherford's participation in many other segments of the oil and gas service business, the company saw stimulation as an area of new potential consistent with its overall growth strategy.... more

Production optimization is a term heard so frequently in the upstream oil and gas business today that it ought to qualify as a buzzword. This is for good reason, though,... more

Australia has plenty of natural gas, but it grows increasingly dependent on outside sources for its hydrocarbon liquids. New Zealand's main gas supply, Maui field, is in steep decline, and... more

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) may be new to most of the United States, but it is not for the rest of the world, where LNG has been marching forward steadily... more