... in two or more producing zones. 145JPT JULY 2014 The ideal carbon dioxide (CO2) thickener would be an affordable, safe, water-insoluble additive that could dissolve in CO2 at typical wellhead and reservoir conditions during CO2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and elevate the viscosity of CO2 to the same...

.... The purpose is to consider the conceivable failure modes associated with each component and function on the basis of prior art, knowledge, and industry experience and then develop plans to mitigate such failure modes in a hierarchy that is based on the criticality. 114 JPT JULY 2014 Reliability of subsea...

... and focus your maintenance efforts on that part, and not just a random part,” said Clayton Simmons, product line manager of BOP monitoring systems at National Oilwell Varco (NOV). BLOWOUT PREVENTER TECHNOLOGY 58 JPT JULY 2014 Agrowing trend of heavy indus-tries in the 21st century has been to marry...

.... 1 7 2014 1 7 2014 1 7 2014 1 7 2014 TECHNOLOGY UPDATE 28 JPT JULY 2014 Efficient production in many fields requires reservoir stimulation. Some of the challenges with hydraulic fracture stimulation are reservoir-related, such as consistently stimulating all targeted intervals...

... have educated our approaches to well-defined best practices. In shale plays, these have not yet been fully worked through and adopted by consensus, often leaving the owner of the asset as the arbiter of methodology. 128 JPT JULY 2014 Development of the Eagle Ford shale typically consists...

... composition Chipperfield Engineer equation of state Engineering OnePetro july 2014 reservoir flowback University hydraulic fracturing Technology Focus completion productivity cleanup 1 7 2014 1 7 2014 1 7 2014 1 7 2014 2014. Copyright is retained by the author...

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... is retained by the author. This document is distributed by SPE with the permission of the author. Contact the author for permission to use material from this document. EMERGING FRONTIERS 14 JPT JULY 2014 Collaboration Jeff Spath, 2014 SPE President One of the personal objectives I took as president...

... to publish their outstanding accomplishments and lessons learned as SPE papers. Technology Focus OnePetro Upstream Oil & Gas ConocoPhillips progressing cavity pump SPE paper artificial lift system industry event Noonan july 2014 Houston Petroleum Development Oman TECHNOLOGY Shauna Noonan...

... Modeling & Simulation complex reservoir unconventional resource economics OnePetro july 2014 fracture chairperson forecasting application SPE University 90 JPT JULY 2014 William Bailey, SPE, works at Schlumberger-Doll Research as a principal engineer with 25 years of industry experience...

... activity, including deepwater projects— play a crucial role through generating high cash flow that has financed the company’s entry into onshore unconventional development, Hollek said. CONFERENCE REVIEW 68 JPT JULY 2014 The impact of onshore unconvention- als development on the offshore sec- tor, safety...

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... regulator Offshore Technology Conference Technology Center operator USGS geological survey industry standard boundary july 2014 Wood Mackenzie E&P NOTES 36 JPT JULY 2014 More than 21 billion bbl of light, sweet crude oil will be extract- ed over the lifetime of the Bakken and Three Forks shale...

... renewable energy complex reservoir Engineering biofuel flowback water operation Executive Director saltier gas production shale gas production july 2014 University groundwater shale oil drought vikram rao corn ethanol freshwater JPT BEYOND THE HEADLINES 20 JPT JULY 2014 Editor s note...

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