E&P Magazine - July 2005
As I See It
Planning adds odds for financial success
New technology needs a comprehensive business plan for a successful launch.
Cover Story
Joining the world market
In the past 10 years, BGP has grown from a service company dedicated to its owner's requirements, China's CNPC, to the largest land contractor in the world geophysical services market.
Drilling Technologies
Be an engineer, save the world!
Attention all drillers, engineers, contractors and operators!
Special Report
Take a look at emerging technology
Program provides satellite 'subscriptions'
Features
Pakistan sends invitation
Pakistan wants foreign capital to develop oil and gas and it has improved investment terms to make the offer more inviting for international companies.
Tech Watch
Demise rumors unfounded
The rumor mill is at work and doing well.
Tech Trends
Minimize risks in digital oil field
The improved operational performance promised by a seamless digital oil field is alluring, and the tasks required to arrive at a realistic implementation are more specialized than might be expected.
Activity Highlights
M&A, M&A, M&A
A couple of house-keeping items first. Number one, whilst we have changed Dick Ghiselin's remit a bit, he is still a valued member of the Hart editorial team.
Activity Spotlight
CGG secures backlog
CGG announced two of its vessels each secured a strong backlog of acquisition work.
Another Perspective
Controlling the flow
Long horizontal wells are a double-edged sword for today's operators.
Deepwater project control pays off
Set a goal. Make a plan. Execute the plan.
EM extends field life
Electromagnetic measurement-while-drilling and logging-while-drilling (EM MWD/LWD) technologies have been identified as key enabling technologies that could have a significant impact on underbalanced drilling (UBD) operations in Oman.
Full-wave imaging solves gas test
Today's new generation of digital full-wave seismic technology enables acquisition of improved seismic images and identification of reservoir parameters that have proven useful in solving exploration and production problems, including improved structural interpretations and validation of amplitude anomalies in onshore clastic gas reservoirs.
Getting the most from your asset
In today's world of new construction slots at shipyards being fully booked and the high cost of steel, prudent owner/operators are looking for ways to get the most out of existing assets while assuring the asset is fit for the intended service and maintaining safety as a key performance indicator.
GTL to set sail
With reserves dwindling and world demand roaring, there are many projects underway to produce stranded natural gas.
KOC pioneers single-sensor seismic
Single-sensor acquisition and processing techniques successfully imaged and characterized a mature onshore field for which previous attempts to derive reservoir properties from seismic were largely unsuccessful.
Managing water across a field
On average, every barrel of oil produced in the United States is accompanied by 9 bbl of water, according to industry estimates.
Run deep run cheap run efficient
Floating production platforms launch pioneering operators into hydro-space
System copes with interference
Traditional measurement/logging while drilling (M/LWD) surveying starts with the measurement of the inclination and azimuth (essentially a vector direction or unit-vector) at a discrete number of locations in the well bore, usually parameterized by the measured depth.
WT transforms aid intepretation
Reflection seismology has always been a valuable exploration method for the petroleum industry.
World Map
Show me the oil!
There was the classic amplitude vs. offset (AVO) frenzy in the '80s and '90s...
Water control boosts Arbuckle oil
As of December 2004, TIORCO, Inc. has treated more than 200 Arbuckle wells in Kansas with polymer gel technology, with a greater than 95% success rate.