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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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Aug 2010

• SHALE ENERGY: Developing the Barnett—Lateral lengths increasing in Barnett shale

  Author Gene Powell

  A Powell Barnett Shale Newsletter database of the 8,158 horizontal wells with production was evaluated using the lateral length of each well.

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Aug 2010

• Sourcing critical oilfield services for shale plays in a tightening supply market

  Author Chris Newton, Preston Cody and Rick Carr

  Successful operators are responding to the market by adopting a more strategic view of the role of their supply management organizations and implementing advanced contracting strategies to manage costs and secure supply.

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Jul 2010

• Distributed temperature sensing yields lessons for acid treatment

  Author Robert Reyes, Gerard Glasbergen, Valerie Yeager and Joseph Parrish

  A Permian Basin operator used downhole temperature profiles to maximize the effectiveness of a well stimulation campaign.

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Jul 2010

• SHALE ENERGY: Developing the Eagle Ford—Geochemical fixes boost shale completion efficiency

  Author Matt Blauch

  Controlling the effects of geochemical interactions between the shale and the fracturing fluids has helped shale gas operators preserve reservoir communication to the wellbore, reduce sour gas potential and tailor flowback water for reuse.

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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.

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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.

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Jun 2010

• Electromagnetic MWD improves drilling performance in the Fayetteville

  Author Sandeep Janwadkar, Christian Klotz, Bart Welch and Shane Finegan

  The use of real-time MWD data and reliable directional control resulted in increased average ROP and reduced drilling time.

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Jun 2010

• Fayetteville Shale wells benefit from cementless lateral technique

  Author Garry W. Templeton, Andre Broussard and Deck Travis

  A new whipstock-and-packer approach to drilling openhole laterals can reduce rig time and risk by eliminating the need to set cement.
  

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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.”

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