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Sep 2010

• Alternative coverage analysis method reduces infill shooting

  Author Paul Young and David Monk

  Combined with steerable streamer technology, the use of Fresnel zone binning has reduced infill surveys to single-digit cost percentages.
  

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Sep 2010

• BRAZIL PRE-SALT: Master plan for the Santos Basin pre-salt cluster development

  Author Jose Formigli, Mauro Yuji Hayashi, Fernando Mauricio de Aquino Mendes, Mariana de Souza Muniz Pinto and Michèlle Correia Sampaio

  To bring online its most promising deepwater province, Petrobras is employing a management model designed for integrated and harmonious planning and execution.

  Deepwater, Drilling and Completions, Exploration, Offshore, Production, South America Read More

Sep 2010

• BRAZIL PRE-SALT: Pre-salt development gathers speed

  Author John L. Kennedy

  Only four years after the first discovery below the thick salt layer in Brazil’s deep water, a lengthening list of new finds indicates a long stretch of pre-salt reservoirs where three early successes may contain a total of as much as 14 billion boe.

  Deepwater, Drilling and Completions, Exploration, Offshore, Production, South America Read More

Sep 2010

• Challenging the ‘missing section equals normal fault’ paradigm

  Author Jean-Yves D. Chatellier and Maria Eugenia Rueda

  Reinterpretation of missing sections has resulted in downward reserve revision, location of a bypassed pay zone, a new pressure support scheme and a major discovery—each with significant monetary implications.
  

  Exploration, South America Read More

Sep 2010

• REAL-TIME OPERATIONS: Saudi Aramco’s intelligent fields: Real-time reservoir management

  Author Tofig A. Al-Dhubaib and Heather F. Bence

  Leveraging real-time data has increased production rates and improved reservoir management and production operations.

  Drilling and Completions, Exploration, Production, Middle East Read More

Aug 2010

• Historical and continuing technology application at a giant heavy oil field

  Author James F. Swartz, Charles Piestch and Stephen D. Cassidy

  In the late 1960s, steamflooding boosted output sevenfold at California’s Kern River Field. Today, reservoir surveillance, 3D reservoir modeling and horizontal drilling are extending the heavy oil field’s economic life for years to come.

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Jul 2010

• Impressive Arctic discoveries drive international push into unexplored areas

  Author John L. Kennedy

  Perceived ecological risk and the related political battles over access—not a lack of technology and operating know-how—will be the key challenges to accelerating the development of remote, high-cost Arctic oil and gas resources.
  

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Jul 2010

• SHALE ENERGY: Developing the Eagle Ford—Unconventional approaches aid Eagle Ford development

  Author Murray Roth

  Stretching from the meandering Rio Grande, the Eagle Ford Shale play extends along a 50-mile corridor in South Texas for over 400 miles to the northeast.

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

Jun 2010

• Multicomponent seismic exploration: A more complete conversation

  Author Robert R. Stewart

  Integrating converted shear-wave data with traditional P-wave data provides reservoir insights.

  Exploration, North America Read More

Feb 2010

• Global E&P capital expenditures to increase 11%

  Author James D. Crandell, James C. West, Nicholas McLean and Anthony Walker

  E&P expenditures in the US are indicated to rise by 12%, a somewhat surprising magnitude given weak natural gas fundamentals.

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