WorldOil

Jul 2010

• Making the most of topsides engineering

  Author Norb Roobaert

  Competent leadership and adherence to a realistic project execution plan using consistent communication with all project contributors will help ensure success.

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Jul 2010

• Next steps for expandables

  Author Diane Langley

  The industry is expanding its view of this technology’s applications, with a shift toward incorporating expandables into the primary design of the well rather than just using them as contingency systems.
  

  Drilling and Completions, Production Read More

Jul 2010

• Organic clay acid system sustains post-treatment production increases

  Author Oscar J. Jaramillo, Ricardo Romero, Alexis Ortega, Art Milne and Manuel Lastre

  A comparative evaluation of matrix acid systems was conducted in a high-clay reservoir for Petrobras.
  

  Offshore, Production, South America Read More

Jul 2010

• Shale Energy: Developing the Eagle Ford—Oil, NGL and condensate opportunities lift Eagle Ford Shale activity

  Author Pramod Kulkarni

  Leasing and drilling activity are gaining due to prospects for producing higher-priced liquids in addition to dry gas.

  Drilling and Completions, Onshore, Production, Shale, North America Read More

Jun 2010

• Quantifying downstream effects of hydrate inhibitor injection

  Author Jonathan J. Wylde

  Use of industrial methylated spirit was considered critical for flow assurance in an HPHT subsea tieback, but could impact processing and product quality.
  

  Drilling and Completions, Offshore, Production, Europe Read More

Jun 2010

• SHALE ENERGY: Developing the Haynesville—A cooperative model for US shale gas development

  Author J. Daniel Arthur

  A recent Wall Street Journal editorial commented that an accompanying article in that newspaper “makes the case that huge natural-gas discoveries in shale rock are on the verge of, well, changing everything.”

  Onshore, Production, North America Read More

Feb 2010

• Substantial future LNG supply secured

  Author David Wood and Saeid Mokhatab

  A good deal of the regasification capacity commissioned in 2009 is destined to sit underutilized until gas demand recovers from the economic downturn.
  

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Feb 2010

• What's new in production

  Author Pramod Kulkarni, Contributing Editor

  Inject electricity and pump more oil?

   

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Dec 2009

• What's new in production

  Author James F. Lea, Contributing Editor, with O. Lynn Rowlan

  Advances in plunger lift optimization

   

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Nov 2009

• How much oil are we leaving behind?

  Author Hector Gomez Alonso, Majida Al-Kharusi, Phyllis Yeo Niam Chay and Mike German

  Shell applies modern decline analysis and material balance to answer the question.

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