WorldOil

NOVEMBER 2009

Special Focus: Production Technology

How much oil are we leaving behind?

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.

Securing future production of oil and gas reserves

Clas Normann

An integrated brownfield study improved production forecasting.

Sucker rods with new connection design enable high-load pumping in deeper wells

Herial Angeletti, Miguel Colla, Ricardo Mazzola, Daniel Muse, Félix Carrizo and Francisco Diaz Telli

In a trial in Argentina, the new rods reduced connection failures and raised output.