An innovative coiled tubing-conveyed treatment combined acid and fluid pulsation to remove wellbore damage. In its operational area in Egypt's Western Desert, Bapetco has acid-stimulated an exploratory well to restore oil... more

Novel frac-fluid chemistry meets strict environmental standards for offshore disposal while achieving performance and cost goals. Developing a fracturing fluid that can meet today's stringent environmental standards and perform well at... more

Accurately predicting tension, compression and torque limits for horizontal openhole completion systems can reduce the risk of serious well damage. Frictional drag often prevents successful installation of a completion string (CS)... more

Conventional methods for stimulating a large number of treatment intervals in a horizontal well can involve considerable amounts of nonproductive time. There is a way to significantly reduce it. A process... more

A methodology incorporating drilling, cementing and completion techniques helped to mitigate gas hazards in three Gulf of Mexico wells. Eugene Island Block 273 is a mature natural gas field located 75... more

Formation pressure and magnetic resonance logging-while-drilling technologies reduce deepwater drilling costs and enable novel formation-evaluation programs. Shell Offshore Inc. successfully drilled and completed a commercially productive well in the Ram Powell... more

Despite his modesty, Decker Dawson has reason to be proud of his company's unparalleled success. E&P visited with Dawson recently to talk about Dawson Geophysical, Midland, Texas, in the 1950s,... more

Borrowing ideas from other industries, a seismic solution provider ponders acquisition in a world without cables. Since the end of World War II, oil and gas companies, equipment manufacturers and acquisition... more

Nodal seismic technology is becoming the tool of choice for shallowwater surveys. The current intense level of activity in the oil and gas industry shows no signs of abating any time... more

A new player is capturing market share in the sizzling seismic market. It's always nice to be in the right place at the right time. Just ask the folks at Global... more

Advances in diamond-impregnated bits and motor drive technology overcome HP/HT drilling challenges in the Tuscaloosa Trend. R. Seale, J. Walker, T. Beaton, Sii Neyrfor; J. Sanders, BP America; D. Shuler, Smith... more

Development and benchmark testing of advanced diamond product bits and HP/HT fluids optimize deep drilling performance and significantly improve ROP. Arnis Judzis, TerraTek, Inc.; Tim Grant, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Department... more

Effective produced-water control revives returns. Handling produced water in mature fields eats income potential and often forces the early shut-down of fields with years of potential production. New techniques can postpone... more

As gas field production declines, liquid loading occurs. Operators who apply no more than solid engineering skills can tap easily available production increases from these fields. There are more than 320,000... more

Time lapse marine seismic imaging, called 4-D, demands high-fidelity positioning data so time sequences can be correlated properly. Detection of the subtle reservoir changes that take place between surveys is... more

LithSeis, from eSeis, is a seismic data processing technology designed to extract lithology, porosity and pore fluid information from pre-stack seismic data. Predicated on a 10-fold classification of amplitude variation... more

Varel International appointed F. Michael Pisch chief financial officer. It also named William Burton (left) vice president of sales and operations for the Western Hemisphere-North, and hired David Wilson (right)... more

North America 1. Oil companies have asked for two new units on Alaska's North Slope, Anadarko Petroleum Corp. for Jacob's Ladder and ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. for its Cronus Unit. 2. Quest Oil... more

1. Apache is still trying to finalize gas sales agreements that will jump start the development of a series of gas finds on its Western Mediterranean Deep block offshore Egypt.... more

1. Turkish state oil company TPAO is looking for joint venture partners to farm into blocks in the western and central Black Sea offshore Turkey in license areas AR/TPO/3920, AR/TPO/3921... more

1. Shell E&P Ireland and Island Oil & Gas plc asked for seven blocks in the latest Irish licensing round as they focussed on deepwater acreage in the North East... more

1. Shell E&P Ireland and Island Oil & Gas plc asked for seven blocks in the latest Irish licensing round as they focussed on deepwater acreage in the North East... more

1. Gulfsands Petroleum has increased its interest in Block 26, in northeast Syria, by purchasing Devon Energy's 80% stake in the acreage. The company then immediately farmed out a 50%... more

1. The FEX LP subsidiary of Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary, Alberta, Canada, plans as many as eight exploratory wells in the northwestern part of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. The wells... more

1. Shell has officially dropped any interest to develop the oil rim associated with the gas producing Malampaya gas field offshore Palawan, the Philippines, as it is not commercially viable.... more

1. Circle Oil received an exploration license for Block A in Panama automatically raising the company to one of the largest offshore acreage holders in the region. The block is... more

There's no time to wait. Companies that want to excel can and must embrace this technology today. What is a digital oil field? To some it is about instrumentation and field... more

A research program aims to eliminate the need for velocity models. Not everyone who wins a professional society award does so after a lifetime of achievement. For years the Society of... more

An organization's most valuable asset can easily deteriorate. Is there anything you can do to stop it? Knowledge management. The first time you spot this expression out of the corner of... more

We can all learn a lesson from independent Southwestern Energy Co. who has a formula for success and is busy working it for all it's worth. In previous editorials, I have... more

EM gains speed With the increased demand for higher telemetry rates, electromagnetic telemetry measurement while drilling (EMT-MWD) can be a viable option for reaching more data density in real-time formats. One... more

Studying seismic data volume textures can lead to a more intuitive geological presentation. Texture-based evaluation of data is done in different fields, and several commercial applications exist - in paper and... more

Great Godfreys. It's the middle of October as I write this, and there is another hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. Named Wilma, the hurricane is now a Category 5... more

Initiative seeks members The Industry Research Funders Coalition and Heriot-Watt University have formed the PAMGUARD research initiative to address limitations of existing cetacean passive acoustic monitoring software capabilities. For more information,... more

A good introduction gives new technology a helping hand on its way to the market place. Field trials are critical parts of most new technology launches. This is the first time... more

A new nation invites international players to its oil and gas industry. Timor-Leste (East Timor) opened its first licensing round as an independent nation. The nation declared its independence from Indonesia on... more

The US gas market is in a state of dramatic change. US gas demand is expected to increase by 13% - up to 2010, from 26 Tcf today - to... more