E&P Magazine - February 2002
As I See It
Learn to play the success game
Ideas flourish when a company's culture encourages them to blossom.
Cover Story
Let light through rigid walls
Electronics are breaching the rigid walls between business and personal life built by corporations and amplified by commuting.
Drilling Technologies
Thinking outside the casing
A new perforating and fracturing method for multiple pay zones can double production.
Features
Gas forces gather in Egyptian Mediterranean
The Mediterranean gas play is creating a major production hub.
Tech Watch
Marathon cuts Yates plant outages
Digital protective relays improve power stability and enhance control and safety.
Activity Highlights
Adjusting perspective
They finally put the fires out in the rubble that was the World Trade Center at the end of December.
Another Perspective
Aker adds to maritime stalwart
With 37 units built, the Aker H3 design has been in use for 30 years and is the most successful semisubmersible in the offshore industry.
Cement aids challenging sidetracks
Faced with high-cost failures using conventional slurries, an operator tests metallic microribbon cement for successful kickoff plugs.
Drilling into the deep
New treatments can substantially increase leakoff and formation integrity pressures to solve deep high-pressure, high-temperature drilling challenges.
Faster, better, deeper
Here's the latest in roller cone, polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC), bicenter and expandable bits and related services.
JIP studies cement integrity
The US Department of the Interior's US Minerals Management Service (MMS) has identified cementing as one of the most important issues the oil industry must address for deepwater projects.
Logging ultradeep wells pushes limits
Several technical advances have resulted in a wireline system that can tackle high-pressure, high-temperature well conditions.
Make it bigger, better
Engineers are hard at work evolving new designs for the international rig community to provide a fleet that
is better able to cope with 21st century commitments.
Modifications lower drilling costs
Shell Exploration and Production stages a successful campaign to lower drilling costs.
Mærsk designs for Caspian campaign
Mærsk Contractors is building a new breed of semisubmersible designed specifically to operate in the Caspian Sea for ExxonMobil and ChevronTexaco.
World Map
A whale of a battle
A seismic trade association hopes to help craft regulations that protect the interests of those afloat on the surface and those that dwell beneath it.