E&P Magazine - July 2019
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In the July issue of E&P, the cover story focuses on shale technologies. This issue also includes the annual shale technology showcase. Other features cover geomechanics, drillbits, hydraulic fracturing and production optimization. The unconventional report focuses on the Denver-Julesburg Basin, and the regional report covers East Africa.
As I See It
Fertile Ground
The next generation of energy innovators stands ready to tackle the next generation of energy challenges.
Cover Story
Keys To Reducing The Cost Of Treating Produced And Flowback Water
Efficiencies and cost reductions make water treatment and use of produced water more accepted.
Modular Shale Shaker Drives Performance Evolution
The ability to change from a single-deck to a multiple-deck unit in the field eliminates the need to change out the complete shaker system to gain increased capacity.
Scratching The Subsurface
The oil and gas industry has come far in its understanding of the unconventional subsurface, but there is still much to learn about shale’s tightly kept secrets.
Unsung Tools For Boosting Profitability Of Unconventional Wells
Amid new lows in permeability, biodegradable frac diverters lift production and lower completion costs.
World View
Making Core Out Of The Fringe
Permian operators turn to the edge of the play.
Industry Pulse
How Is Trust Affecting The Bottom Line?
Declining returns and growing demand for cleaner energy and sustainable products are impacting stakeholder trust in oil and gas companies.
Market Intelligence
Changing Tides
Will 2019 witness the first decline in water use for well stimulation?
Drilling Technologies
Addressing The Drilling Challenges Of Midcontinent Chert
Application-specific bit and cutter designs improve performance in Woodford application.
Offshore Drilling Transformation Underway
Upgrading the fleet, automation and more are delivering improved drilling efficiencies, reduced costs and faster times to first oil offshore.
Completions and Production
An Appetite For Field Extensions
Improved cost structures and technology innovations have led to prolonged production lives for offshore projects.
Special Report
Shale Technology Showcase
In this special section, E&P highlights some of the latest products and technologies for shale development and looks at how they will benefit companies in their ongoing search for improved production and more effective operating techniques.
Digital Solutions
High-resolution DAS In Frac Design
A new monitoring service locates microseismic and strain events in real time.
Step Change In Operations Scheduling
Scheduling well delivery offers a strategic advantage.
Shale Solutions
Oilfield Water Intelligence Helps Water Midstream Sector Find Solutions
With roots in oil and gas, one company aims to turn water data into high-value solutions to answer big questions.
Offshore Solutions
Multifunctional Mobile Technology For Near-surface Well Intervention
A new compact tool provides an alternative intervention solution to conventional options.
Operator Solutions
Digital Reservoir Provides Insights Into Its Physical Twin
Leveraging a digital twin for integrated reservoir and production management delivers results.
Downhole Monitoring—New Advances, New Demands
Intelligent completion networks help open up new sources of downhole information.
Features
Applying AI To Production Operations
Production optimization is a multivariable problem, and operators have options to solve it.
Frac Plug Advances Drive Faster, Easier Millouts
A new plug design cuts completion costs and reduces time to production.
Hitting The Mark
Curve drilling performance is targeted through customized PDC toolface and side-cutting design.
Improved Detection Of Wellbore Stability Parameters
A new LWD high-resolution ultrasonic imaging tool helps mitigate nonproductive time and deliver optimized wells.
Improving Operational Efficiency And Production By Selecting The Right Fluid Design
Adaptable fluids are needed for high-rate, high-pressure frac jobs.
Protector-less Artificial Lift Technology For Downhole Rotating Devices
Design helps eliminate failure modes of the ESP protector components.
Self-adaptive PDC Bit Technology Reduces Drilling Dysfunction In Deepwater Wells
Real-time drilling dynamics data demonstrate technology’s effectiveness for sustained drilling performance improvement.
The Challenges Of Parent And Child Wells
Production performance changes due to the interaction between parent and child wells can be modeled using the microseismic-derived fracture permeability values in a reservoir model.
Unconventional Report
Permitting Activity Drops In The D-J Basin
Fears of future regulations in Colorado mobilized operators at year-end 2018 to secure permits rather than take a ‘wait and see’ approach.
Regional Report
Will East Africa Find Oil Amid Challenges?
New exploration frontiers give hope to the region’s offshore market.
Tech Watch
Securing The Digital Oil Field
Intrinsic cybersecurity, open standards and Moore’s law have converged to enable a new era of wellsite productivity improvement.
Tech Trends
Tech Trends
Check out the latest products and services for the upstream oil and gas industry.
Activity Highlights
International Highlights
Check out the latest activity highlights from around the world.
On The Move
On The Move
Check out the latest new hires, appointments and promotions as well as new company office and facility openings.
Last Word
The Digital Rig—A Path From Hyperbole To Sensibility
These simple steps will help the industry achieve value from the digital rig.
MEA Innovations
Winners Of The 2019 Special Meritorious Awards For Engineering Innovation
The E&P editors and staff proudly presented the winners of the 2019 Special Meritorious Awards for Engineering Innovation in May at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston.