Well construction costs in deeper waters, it is said, could be drastically reduced, if rigs operated on the seabed instead of at the sea surface, and this has been confirmed... more

Initially shaker screens were easy to describe. They were square mesh made with market grade wire. Mesh is defined as the number of openings per square inch. The size of... more

What is the most practical way to obtain more reservoir knowledge earlier and throughout the life of a reservoir? Field results rely on proper decision making, and these decisions cannot... more

With exploration and production (E&P) trends towards smaller and more complex reservoirs, there is an urgent need for technology supporting more detailed reservoir understanding. The integration dilemma for reservoir modeling... more

As the speed of computational time exponentially accelerates, databases seem similarly to be getting larger and, unfortunately, more unwieldy. With almost unlimited disk space, more and more data is getting... more

There is an unfortunate divergence in data modeling strategies between the spatial-centric approach in global information systems (GIS) and the business-centric approach adopted by database applications following Public Petroleum Data... more

Today's soaring commodity prices are contributing handsomely to the bottom line at the various oil and gas industry-related companies. Regrettably, the extra dollars don't make it any easier to wring more... more

The first triple-zone intelligent completions installed off the US West Coast are up and running in three of Plains Exploration & Production's (PXP) Rocky Point wells. PXP chose this approach... more

The widening acceptance of intelligent well technology beyond initial applications in traditional areas such as the Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea, etc. is illustrated by the first intelligent well... more

As hydrocarbon deposits become harder to find and the majority of the super giant oil fields continue to mature, the industry is being forced to consider increasingly challenging reservoir management... more

Any new technology rides a bell curve of early-adopter acceptance, broad-market acceptance, a peak and a decline. Intelligent wells have broad acceptance among early adopters now and they are heading... more

Flow assurance means different things to different people. To some it can resemble the oilfield version of Roto-Rooter, unclogging wells, tieback lines and jumpers, gathering stations and risers of production-robbing... more

Gas hydrates are a growing concern in oil or gas production because gas hydrates can present flow assurance problems in onshore wells, in offshore wells and in pipelines. Almost any... more

The oil and gas industry has long been associated with cyclical employment patterns, as commodity prices fluctuate. Three decades of high production and mass hiring, starting in the 1970s, followed... more

The American Petroleum Institute survey that points to a fast-approaching shortage in key technical positions in the oilpatch has a lot of companies worried about the depths of the technical... more

The oil and gas industry will need nearly 30,000 new petroleum engineers by 2009 to replace engineers eligible to retire by that time and to meet engineering needs for growing... more

There has been a lot of conversation and even entire meetings during the past few years devoted to manpower issues in the oil and gas business. Many people are concerned... more

The looming shortage among US-based companies of senior technical people - geologists, geophysicists and engineers - is one of the biggest concerns facing the oilpatch today. By one estimate, half... more

A new, powerful integrated Windows-PC software solution called Petrel allows smooth workflows to be developed from seismic interpretation through to reservoir simulation. All work processes contribute to the development of... more

Want a suitable underbalanced reservoir evaluation? Then what you want might be delivered conveniently by the SURE Process from Weatherford International. Consisting of two phases, the process is designed to... more

Wayne A. Beninger was appointed vice president and chief operating officer of PetroSearch Energy Corp. It also named John F. Sobehrad manager of geology, Bennett A. Thomas manager of engineering,... more

North America 1. Houston, Texas, independent Marathon Oil Co. completed a Tyonek gas discovery on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska that produced 154.4 MMcf of gas in its first 4... more

In this article we envision how an asset might be managed in the future. There is a lot of interest in digital oil fields these days. But there is also a... more

Houston may be the energy capital of the world, but that doesn't mean the majority of its citizens have a particularly deep understanding of the energy business's inner workings. But... more

Enjoying brief popularity late last century was a television show in the United States called That's Incredible! Nicknamed "That's Incredibly Stupid" by some viewers because of the pointless antics of... more

With oil peaking someplace north of US $66/bbl, and with no end in sight, public and political rhetoric is heating up - in many cases it's reaching alarming proportions. The... more

The geophone has a low natural frequency of 4.5 Hz, which, the company explains, benefits the comparison of shear (S) waves to compressional (P) waves in multicomponent studies relative to... more

Production logging tools developed for vertical or near-vertical wells may not present a true picture of flow dynamics in highly deviated or horizontal well scenarios. Drilling of nonvertical wells has... more

Long before George W. Bush signed the new US energy bill (Energy Policy Act of 2005) into law on Aug. 8, the clamors of foul play rang across the nation.... more

Awards • Geotrace has been awarded a long-offset survey in the northern Gulf of Mexico. The survey consists of nominal offsets of 40,000 ft (12,200 m), with maximum far offsets of... more

The American Heritage Dictionary defines innovate: to begin or introduce (something new) for or as if for the first time. Innovation is defined as: the act of introducing something new.... more

Norway aims at sustained NCS production while ramping up far north exploration, said Minister of Energy Torhild Widvey. Q. What is the largest challenge facing the Norwegian petroleum industry today? A. We... more

Jobs for new graduates were plentiful, so I had my pick of job offers. Before I left campus, I had heard about salary compression in which employees with a year... more

Following almost 4 years of Congressional debate, a new comprehensive national energy policy, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 was passed by the United States Congress at the end of... more