The Arquimia field is located in the Tertiary Veracruz Basin in southeast Mexico. The reservoir is characterized by shale, sandstone and conglomerates in different sedimentary systems with ages from Paleocene... more

In 2003, the industry began a journey towards the next target for expandable reservoir completions — multizone systems for 8 1/2-in. open hole. Operators were beginning to recognize that drilling... more

The expansion of concentric downhole tubulars with direct hydraulic pressure has been advanced by READ Well Services with the Hydraulically Expandable Tubular System (HETS). Figure 1. The HETS expansion tool... more

Throughout the past century, the mechanical wave has shared the spotlight with various complex phenomena. In 1905, Albert Einstein shook the physics world when through his analysis of the photoelectric... more

Unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) have considerable application in exploration and production activities, and the UAV with a 22-lb payload has much to offer. However, before such UAVs will find widespread... more

To the jaundiced industry observer, exploring for oil and gas in Madagascar might seem foolishly optimistic. After all, the country has never produced a drop of oil despite the fact... more

Gaining an understanding of sub-basalt geology has up to now been an extremely difficult task for explorers; the tried-and-true method of relying on seismic surveys to map the subsurface has... more

Billions of barrels of oil in residual zones in the US Permian Basin, Rocky Mountain states and around the world have never been considered for production, but they represent a... more

Conventional CBM recovery calls for the operator to pump water from coalseams to release most of the pressure than helps methane attach to the cleats in the coal. The more... more

In Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) land environment, areal reservoir monitoring is not just 4-D seismic, as is the worldwide default, but can best be achieved by a combination of various... more

Many members of the oil and gas sector are starting to feel the heat of global warming concerns among the general public, politicians, regulators and financiers. Use of their fossil... more

From a start in the 1980s as a new technique to clear methane out of underground coal mines, methane production grew with the help of US government incentives to a... more

Despite the country having a proud coal heritage that goes back more than 160 years, the United Kingdom — unlike Australia and the United States that have well-developed coalbed methane... more

Prior to investigating coalbed methane (CBM) decline performance, conventional gas well decline performance was studied. We reviewed the relevant literature, performed reservoir simulations and evaluated the applicability of traditional decline... more

All over North America, coalbed methane (CBM) is viewed as a tough way to make a buck. Margins are tight, and the very nature of the target makes it difficult... more

Knowledge management (KM) concepts and tools have long been available, but until recently there were relatively few successful applications. At Halliburton, the use and innovative application of a proprietary KM... more

If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. But running an oil company is not easy, even when commodity prices are high. Particularly for large majors, which can probably... more

The steady appearance of new rig designs is a pretty good indication that traditional rig designs were created with far less concern over efficiency than the times now demand. A... more

Wouldn’t it be great if every high-school teenager in the world knew the effort it takes to make the decision to find a prospect and bring it on line? It’s... more

Borehole acoustic reflection surveys (BARS) are not new to the industry; however, since the introduction of Schlumberger’s Sonic Scanner acoustic scanning platform in late 2005, the Hydro needed to improve... more

IHS Inc. has launched PETRA 3.1.9.0, a new version of its PC-based geological analysis software with automated data access. This release includes the IHS Enerdeq Direct Connect feature, providing customers... more

A new Compact Production Sampler, by using a through-wired design, allows a fullbore flowmeter be run at the bottom of a production logging string at the same time as bottomhole... more

For more than 20 years the Petroleum Toolkit series designed and developed by Integrity Consulting has been a standard in the oil and gas industry. The Petroleum Toolkit series has... more

In collaboration with Drillmar Inc., Huisman-Itrec has developed and constructed the LOC250, a containerized, 250-ton hook-load land and offshore rig — a new concept. The LOC 250 is designed to... more

New study examines financial impact of oil and gas industry’s workforce shortage,” goes the headline. And the numbers are scary. According to “The Workforce Crisis in the Upstream Oil and... more

CGGVeritas and Eidesvik Offshore ASA have entered into an agreement for the supply of two large seismic vessels to be newly built, with a total contract value of approximately US... more

Petrobras and Baker Hughes Centrilift have successfully started a subsea pressure boosting system in the deepwater Jubarte Field offshore Brazil in the Campos Basin. The one megawatt electrical submersible pumping... more

FMC Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has been chosen to supply the subsea systems for Norsk Hydro's Ormen Lange Southern Field Development in the Norwegian North Sea. The contract... more

GE Oil & Gas has been selected as a supplier of choice for a new heavy oil upgrader plant northeast of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada that will play a key role... more

Schlumberger announced today the acquisition of Geosystem, a Milan-based provider of land and marine electromagnetics (EM) and seismic imaging services. Electromagnetics is a subsurface measurement used by the oil and... more

Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has been awarded a contract by a major energy company to determine the hydrocarbon content of potential reservoirs offshore eastern Canada using seabed-logging technology. The contract starts in... more

The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and the Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (PTTC) in early July signed a Letter of Intent for AAPG to assume management of PTTC activities. AAPG... more

Wavefield Inseis ASA announced today that it has received a Letter of Intent from Statoil for seismic acquisition work in the North Sea region during 2008. The awarded program marks the... more

IHS Inc. announced it has released the complete online well file document library for British Columbia and Saskatchewan in its IHS RapiData dataset. Historically, these public well reports for both... more

CGG Veritas has entered into a strategic operating alliance with Offshore Hydrocarbon Mapping plc (OHM) under which both companies will jointly develop the global market for Controlled Source Electromagnetic imaging... more

Transocean Inc. and GlobalSantaFe Corp. today announced that their boards of directors have unanimously approved a definitive agreement for a merger of equals. Based upon closing prices for each company's... more

Across many industries, oil and gas included, audit committees are placing an increasing priority on risk issues, with regulations, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and information technology leading the list of... more

As has been widely reported, the last few years in the offshore industry have been characterized by huge rises in the price of crude oil coupled with a serious “capacity... more

In 1948 Well Surveys Inc., a small oilfield service company in Tulsa, Okla., began a difficult task: the design and construction of a pulsed-neutron logging tool that could locate and... more

In these times of high oil prices, the words on the old bumper stickers echo in my brain, “Lord, give me one more boom. I promise not to waste it... more

Good financial terms and a chance to look at highly prospective offshore properties near proven production and close to existing infrastructure make Colombia’s Caribbean Round 2007 an attractive opportunity, according... more

The world abounds with famous quotations. Personally, I prefer Mark Twain or George Bernard Shaw. I prefer them, that is, among those whose utterings are published. What I really prefer... more