E&P Magazine - June 2001
As I See It
Merger experience speaks
Any takeover creates distress, but smart companies minimize the impact.
Cover Story
Singing in the oil patch
Finding, drilling and producing oil are uncertain ventures at best, and many people in the business credit their success to inspiration and intuition.
Drilling Technologies
Drillers' delight
Everything's coming up roses for onshore and offshore drilling contractors.
Features
Bidding war puts Rockies gas in spotlight
Interest in Barrett Resources demonstrates the value of Rocky Mountain gas to US supply.
Tech Watch
Future looks good for CO2
After more than a year of riding under a new brand, the company most responsible for making carbon dioxide (CO2) flooding routine in the Permian Basin is bullish on what the future holds for that enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technique.
Activity Highlights
Still no free ride
Some 15 years or so ago, when the tidy, white-washed residents of the US East Coast made it plain that their desire for an unending energy supply did not include anything so base as oil and gas exploration off their shores, some enterprising soul created a bumper sticker.
Another Perspective
A new approach to field upgrading
By flashing heavy oil with steam, operators don't need diluent to transport heavy oil. The process also has certain synergies with steam recovery methods.
Canada boosts natural gas supplies
Canada gears up to meet its own needs as it seeks to fill voracious US demand.
Cash in on Canada's Opportunity
In an exclusive interview with Hart Publications, Forest Oil Corp.'s Bob Boswell explains why US-based companies are buying Canadian companies and properties at a prodigious rate.
Echoes while drilling
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) logging technology takes another step forward as the tool is modified for logging-while-drilling (LWD) applications.
Foamed cement isolates laterals
A major operator has used a foamed-cement system to cement lateral sections of four wells. The lateral sections all retained zonal isolation after being hydraulically fractured.
Foothills leave big footprint
Operators focus Canada's exploration explosion on western Alberta and northeastern British Columbia.
Generators enable multiple fractures
A stimulation method used in Russia has been successfully implemented in three US sedimentary basins.
Listening to the data
New reservoir characterization technology benefits from a reality check.
New modeling techniques bridge the gap
Different approaches to reservoir modeling have divided geoscientists in the past. New technology attempts to cross that divide.
Real-time images optimize drilling
Imaging innovations in logging-while-drilling (LWD) technology enable operators to place wells more accurately while anticipating drilling problems.
Rising to high-pressure challenges
Logging and mechanical services for deep sour gas wells in the Foothills of the Canadian Rockies require experience and stringent safety precautions.
The call of the wild blue yonder
Hibernia has been the benchmark by which Canadian offshore projects are judged since its beginning. Now Deep Panuke, White Rose and the second phase of the Sable Energy project are under way, marking a major upsurge in activity off Canada's Atlantic coast.
The symmetry of wormholing
A new carbonate matrix wormholing model proposed for acidizing takes advantage of the experimentally observed symmetry of wormholing under radial flow conditions.
World Map
Not rocket science, just rock physics
Petrophysicists and geophysicists meet to discuss integration, and the lack thereof, between their disciplines.