... with a separate user interface (UI), to obtain an overview of the plant’s technical status, concurrent jobs planned, and relevant lessons learned from previous incidents. This work flow had two clear bottlenecks: Manual investigation of the separate data sources was time-consuming, often involving keyword...

..., including multilateral and coiled tubing, now used in oil fields around the globe. Production from Prudhoe Bay is supported by ongoing drilling activity. Technology Description An overview of the automation technology is presented in Fig. 1. drilling operation drill pipe selection Upstream Oil...

...Adam Wilson This article, written by Special Publications Editor Adam Wilson, contains highlights of paper SPE 179569, “Overview of CO2 Injection and WAG Sensitivity in SACROC,” by Reza Barati Ghahfarokhi, SPE, The University of Kansas, and Steve Pennell, Michael Matson, SPE, and Mark Linroth, SPE...

...Chris Carpenter This article, written by JPT Technology Editor Chris Carpenter, contains highlights of paper OTC 25789, “CLOV Project: Overview,” by Geneviève Mouillerat, Total, and Francisca Silva, Sonangol, prepared for the 2015 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, 4–7 May. The paper has...

... Noonan SPE ESP Workshop OnePetro Esp Technology Upstream Oil & Gas Overview july 2011 canada government qatar government Technology Focus application University asia government committee petroleum TECHNOLOGY FOCUS Artificial Lift The electrical-submersible-pump (ESP) industry has...

...Dennis Denney This article, written by Senior Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper SPE 126181, ’Overview of Tight-Gasfield Development in the Middle East and North Africa Region,’ by Ahmed Shehata, SPE, and Ahmed Aly, American University Cairo, and Lee Ramsey, SPE...

... to maximize oil and gas production from them. The specific range of topics included field-development planning, reservoir evaluation, the use of intelligent technology for efficiency gains, drilling and completion issues, and stimulation. The ATW's opening session provided an overview of the development...

...Stephane Menand Overview An increasing number of superlatives are used to describe challenges that the drilling industry faces. Indeed, adjectives such as high, extreme, long, ultra, severe, or extra are used quite often to qualify the complexity of wells drilled today or that will be drilled...

...Jay Stratton Overview Well-testing papers under review for this feature become more numerous and varied each year. Consequently, this issue's papers represent a cross section of only some of the varied resource-development conditions under which industry professionals are designing and evaluating...

...Claude Valenchon Overview Deepwater and the Arctic, which, today, represent more than half of the world's undiscovered oil and gas resources, often are associated when it comes to the current challenges in exploration and production. But even if deepwater and the Arctic share a few common problems...

...Syed A. Ali Overview Mature fields, often referred to as brownfields, are defined as fields in a state of declining production or reaching the end of their productive lives. Recent studies estimate that hydrocarbon production from mature fields will account for more than one-half of the global...

... was to provide an overview of current CO 2 capture and storage (CCS) technology and projects, as well as a look ahead into how technical, economic, and policy developments might facilitate large-scale, widespread application of CCS to mitigate greenhouse-gas (GHG) levels. Cochairpersons Scott Imbus and John...

...Baojun Bai Overview Currently available primary- and secondary-oil-production technologies leave behind two-thirds of the oil in place as stranded oil. However, many analysis and field projects have shown that significant oil-recovery increases are possible with improved/enhanced oil recovery (EOR...

...David Barnett Overview In the last 25 years, we have witnessed the introduction of technology that is nothing short of astonishing—things that most of us would never have imagined during our early days in the field and on the rigs. While the biggest effect clearly has been on overall drilling...

... Oil & Gas petroleum engineering Overview december 2007 Portfolio analysis gas monetization Rietz asset management University Houston SPE What does it mean to manage reserves and assets in the context of the oil- and gas-production business? It really means making the right decisions...

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... these days, too little rigorous science applied to drilling and completions fluids, and too much commercial publishing. Those trends also continue. The Editorial Committee members who write these overviews also pick the technical papers summarized and highlighted in each issue. To those whose papers were...

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