New top drive casing running and drilling system removes personnel and equipment from the rig floor, gets through trouble zones and cuts time off casing jobs.Conventional casing jobs run up... more

A hydraulically valid model with the resultant viscosity predicting algorithms has been developed for lost circulation material (LCM) added to non-aqueous drilling fluids.Measuring drilling fluid rheology for fluids containing LCM... more

An operator must measure water content to devise an effective flow maintenance plan.A crucial component of flow assurance today is the need to predict and measure the water production profile... more

Good wells don't count if oil and gas can't reach the market.Flow assurance is a critical issue in offshore wells, and it becomes more and more critical as tieback distances... more

Reservoir models are run more frequently, and the day could be approaching when they are continuously updated with real-time production well data. One thing everyone agrees on is that the... more

What constitutes intelligent operations? In short, a host of technologies and people who know how to integrate them successfully.Intelligent operations in the oil and gas exploration and production industry is... more

Well monitoring and surveillance is the process driver for most of what counts as intelligent operations. Permanent monitoring of the production well bore and closely associated processes and infrastructure provide... more

Intelligent wells are about timely information and response. Designed to obtain real-time downhole data to gain critical wellbore and reservoir information, they are likewise equipped with the well completion and... more

The ultimate, perfected vision of intelligent operations is a closed loop with the reservoir simulation as the broad base of the system, ongoing operating parameters all captured in real time... more

Russia can offer huge oil and gas reserves matched by huge engineering challenges to recovery.Special to E&PLukoil Chairman of the Board Valery Isaakovitch Graifer, general chairman of the2006 SPE Russian... more

With drilling operations moving to ever-harsher environments, there is an increased need to ensure drilling riser integrity in unplanned incidents such as loss of station keeping.Working with a major drilling... more

Multicomponent information is rapidly gaining acceptance in the land seismic market.It is becoming easier to get the message across about the value of land multicomponent seismic surveys. In the United... more

There are times that gas deposits are not an ideal target. Multicomponent seismic is helping to locate these drilling hazards.The term "what the market will bear" ideally should not apply... more

Unconventional reservoirs are not easy puzzles to solve. But multicomponent time-lapse seismic is showing promise in fracture detection.The Colorado School of Mines Reservoir Characterization Project (RCP) is conducting time-lapse multicomponent... more

By now, you are probably getting as tired of the continual dialogue over impending disasters as I am. There is "The Great Crew Change (TGCC)," "Peak Oil," and "The Rape... more

For the last few years E&P has published a supplement called Research & Development (R&D). Just between us, the title sounds as dry as dust and evokes images of tables... more

ExplorationParadigm acquires EDParadigm is buying Earth Decision (ED), a provider of fully integrated shared-earth modeling for asset teams. Paradigm's Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Gibson said that the... more

A new approach is needed to streamline data collection and information flow in fast-paced CBM operations.Rising interest in coalbed methane (CBM) as a source of natural gas is posing new... more

People who are in the business of developing new technology often bewail the reluctance of potential users to take advantage of their products. I've heard complaints from representatives of government... more

As gas prices drift lower and costs rise, some plays will finish out of the money.High natural gas prices drive more production and greater conservation, a combination that threatens the... more

It's not easy for an independent to get in on the ground floor of a Middle East oil play.Winning oil and gas prospectors go where the oil is, and no... more

An engineering masterpiece built in complete secrecy to pluck a Soviet submarine from the ocean floor is one of the industry's most amazing stories.As this is written, the GSF Explorer,... more

Knight Well Services named Bobby Crockett (left) as general manager and Randy Gibson (right) as operations manager.Trygve Hagevik joined RigNet as vice president, Europe and Africa, and will be based... more

Unique technology takes advantage of the fundamental geophysics of coalbeds.While conventional tools and analysis methods are used with varying success to describe coalbed methane (CBM) reservoirs, few technologies have been... more

Through the integration of information gained during the past 5 years, production of natural gas from hydrate should be viable in the near term using a petroleum systems' approach.Natural gas... more

Continual communication and precise control enabled a record-setting thin bed lateral well to be drilled in Alaska - more are planned. When it came time to develop the Kuparuk-C sand... more

Operators can systematically create wells that achieve the objectives of the enterprise.There are dozens of companies drilling and completing wells in the Barnett Shale of the Fort Worth Basin. The... more

Everyone favors recycling, but few applications offer a chance to recycle natural gas.Just about the time you think the world has run low on gee-whiz ideas, another one comes along... more

Don't despair - not all new ideas take forever to hit their stride.Within companies that make their living introducing new technology to the oil and gas industry, the frustration is... more

Applying curvature attribute analysis to 3-D surface seismic helps determine features not visible with other methods.Identification of subtle faults and predicting fractures associated with folds and fractures is one of... more

Until recently, processing stages have functioned in a self-contained manner. Now companies are connecting the dots.In the oil and gas field, data volume grows exponentially every year in an ongoing... more

Some of the United States' oldest producing basins are just now experimenting with carbon dioxide injection and sequestration.With higher energy prices and concern over global climate change, much research is... more

Data integration results in easier modeling.Using seismic reservoir characterization outputs as inputs to high-resolution reservoir models is not a new or particularly difficult concept to understand. However, the application of... more

New interpretation capabilities dGB has launched OpendTect SSIS, a sequence stratigraphic interpretation system. In SSIS, seismic interpreters have new ways to visualize and analyze seismic data, which leads to better... more