E&P Magazine - September 2002
As I See It
Managers hold performance keys
Management support is absolutely essential to the success of a multidisciplinary team, and its absence can negatively impact a team and its final results.
Cover Story
Awareness boosts security
Since Sept. 11, the rules have shifted, creating a world where the most far-fetched threat can never be taken lightly.
Drilling Technologies
Manage your tapped resources
As another cycle approaches, how will oil prices, capital expenditures, stocks and labor levels affect the industry?
Features
Deltana prospects stir international dreams
Operators vie for 38 Tcf in gas reserves.
Tech Watch
Just-in-time fracturing improves results
Mixing proppant and fluid downhole reduces the risk, increases the efficiency and lowers the cost of fracturing wells.
Activity Highlights
Let the games begin
OK, so it's been raining in Houston a lot lately, and I have been stuck inside.
Another Perspective
C/O logging optimizes performance
Caltex Pacific Indonesia integrated carbon-oxygen (C/O) logging into a total reservoir management program for the Bekasap field waterflood in central Sumatra.
Know your organization's pulse
Human resources (HR) professionals are using technology to keep massive amounts of personnel data organized and readily accessible.
Logging history rich with innovation
From bathtub experiments to modern nuclear physics, formation logging has been the backbone of oil and gas development, letting geologists, geophysicists and engineers see more and more of the subsurface.
Multiple attributes improve accuracy
Using multiple seismic attributes improves the accurate estimation of reservoir thickness over using any single seismic attribute.
Non-US development heats up
Producers targeting coal seams worldwide hope to mirror the success of the US coalbed methane (CBM) industry.
Operators reconsider chemical flooding
Four significant changes have occurred to make chemical flooding a viable option for field-scale enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects once more.
Operators supply CPR to a giant
Miscible CO2 flooding in the Sacroc Unit has not only arrested the steep decline in oil production, but actually increased production 50%.
Putting a value on data management
Managers have long complained about the cost of data and information management, of which companies see no measurable return.
System integrates drilling reports
Data access is improved by integrating electronic tour sheets with the operator's daily drilling report.
Trinidad discoveries spur conversation
Continuing drilling for large gas reserves in Trinidad and Tobago has given BP and partners the clout they need to expand their liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in the twin nations.
VPNs ideal for joint ventures
There is a right way and a wrong way to share information with joint venture partners. By using a virtual private network (VPN), operators can maximize their net present value (NPV).
World Map
End of the elephant hunt
Lions and tigers and bears? Oh my! A new theory of exploration risk management seeks to get the oil business out of the ivory trade.