E&P Magazine - June 2013
As I See It
Hart Energy dives deep with new acquisition
The addition of Subsea Engineering News broadens the company’s offshore offerings.
Cover Story
Companies focus R&D on improving downhole completion efficiency
Operators and producers are looking for ways to make sure that all of the clusters in a given well are producing in a way that maximizes both production and the life of the well.
Exploration Technologies
Trouble on the horizons?
Induced seismicity is starting to get the attention of the general public. Oil and gas companies cannot ignore the implications.
Drilling Technologies
Unconventional gas, FLNG highlight LNG 17
With about 5,000 delegates, the triennial LNG conference in Houston focused on the rapidly changing LNG business.
Completions and Production
Two-stepping horizontal well production
A new dual gas-lift system energizes well flow vertically and laterally.
Offshore Advances
Collaboration is key to the ultra-deep
Teamwork has always been the key to overcoming offshore challenges, and the latest insight from DeepStar shows an encouraging commitment to the cause.
Digital Solutions
Stock optimization: An efficient service partner for industry
Ensuring that warehousing acts as an effective service within a business is a key consideration for oil and gas operators, helping secure business continuity and safe operations.
Technology aids buying, selling properties
Virtual data rooms can speed transactions while providing security and easy access.
Features
China’s energy appetite still growing
China is hungry for energy, looking to sustain and grow its conventional oil and gas production, invigorate its unconventional sector, and kick-start the exploitation of its potentially huge shale gas reserves.
DAS aids in permanent field monitoring
New DAS system provides complete wellbore evaluation.
Deepwater advances depend on transition to closed-loop rigs
With the growth of a fleet of CLD-ready rigs, deepwater drilling operations are poised to benefit from advantages based on closed-loop systems.
Global warming: tilting at windmills
Data abound indicating that more CO2 in the atmosphere might actually be a desirable outcome.
Growing to go the distance
Seven years ago BHP Billiton Petroleum’s board of directors had an epiphany. Now their dreams are becoming reality.
Improving performance while reducing footprint using NADF
Advances in at-site treatment of NADF cuttings waste now enable the use of these fluids for best operational performance with the smallest drilling waste footprint possible.
Integrated high-density point-source, point-receiver land seismic
A case study from the UAE includes complex depth imaging.
Integration leads to optimization
Collaboration between the disciplines of geoscience, engineering, and real-time microseismic monitoring improves exploration success.
Making deep water pay by first drilling wells digitally
Today’s software platforms can be employed to optimize deepwater operations every step of the way – long before the rig arrives on location.
Making the case for advanced ceramic proppants
New proppant shows increase in oil, gas production volume and speed during field-testing.
New options in scale, bacteria management
New control chemistries help operators keep wells producing and prevent degradation of production value.
Proppant management can improve return on investment
Proper selection of proppants impacts the cost of well completion as well as production over the life of the well. Proper education and communication will ensure the right proppant is selected.
Reducing risk, delivering benefits for topsides inspection
An aerial ROV solution has given Centrica a vital ‘eye in the sky’ to help it carry out improved offshore inspection operations with lower risks.
Renewed challenges of 3-D seismic acquisition programs
Leaseholder issues can sidetrack the best land acquisition schemes.
Resurgence in the Permian basin
Technology opens new areas while unlocking additional potential in established Permian basin plays.
Seismic for unconventionals
Can seismic technology improve success rates in the E&P of oil and gas from shale and tight sand?
The promise of full waveform inversion
Though hugely compute-intensive, the FWI method holds promise in capturing waveform information in seismic data.
Winch system lightens load on Perdido
Having a facility more than 300 km (186 miles) offshore connected to ultra-deepwater subsea equipment that needs regular servicing means operators are looking for topsides solutions that can reduce cost.
Tech Watch
Technology gap widens between high-specification, legacy drilling rigs
Safety and inspection requirements in the US GoM post-Macondo have shifted the preference by operators to high-specification floaters.
Tech Trends
Activity Highlights
On The Move
Industry Impact
Azimuthal deep resistivity sensor maps formation layers
Geosteering tool guides horizontal wells through the reservoir.
Management Report
Managing oil and gas portfolios in uncertain markets
The need to rationalize and optimize portfolios has never been greater as emerging markets open up to foreign investment against a backdrop of uncertainty and constrained capital markets.