WorldOil

Dec 2011

• Web Exclusive: Analysis of EPA's proposed clean air restrictions on oil and gas operations

  Author Richard H. Osa and Todd E. Palmer

  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently introduced a suite of rules regulating air emissions from oil and gas production—including hydraulically fractured wells. Once these rules are finalized, they may impose more stringent permitting and operating constraints.

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Dec 2011

• Dual-injection frac systems in horizontal wells

  Author Ali Daneshy

  Dual-injection frac systems include either a coiled or standard tubing string inside the casing and allow fluid injection through both the internal string and the casing-tubing annulus.

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Dec 2011

• If it can happen onshore, why not offshore?

  Author Jack B. Moore

  Vol. 232 No. 12   If it can happen onshore, why not offshore? JACK B. MOORE, President and CEO, Cameron, and Chairman, National Ocean Industries Association I recently read with interest an NBC news story about the Bakken shale oil boom in North D

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Dec 2011

• Regional Report: China

  Author Nell Lukosavich

  China boasts the world’s largest shale gas reserves and enormous new offshore resource potential, but geopolitical tensions and environmental concerns threaten to slow China’s E&P development

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Dec 2011

• What industry leaders expect in 2012

  Despite high oil prices and a shale-driven boom in drilling activity, the approach of a new year brings with it plenty of reasons to be concerned for the future of the oil and gas industry.

  Deepwater, Drilling and Completions, Exploration, Industry Overview, Offshore, Onshore, Production, Shale, Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America Read More

Nov 2011

• Regional Report: West Africa

  Author Pramod Kulkarni

  On the heels of giant Nigerian and Angolan field developments and first oil in Ghana’s deep water, frontier exploration commences in Liberia and Sierra Leone

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Mar 2011

• Changing of the guard at ONGC

  Author Raj Kanwar

  New chairman A. K. Hazarika and retiring chief R. S. Sharma spoke with World Oil to discuss the history and future of India’s leading public-sector oil and gas company.
  

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Jan 2011

• New rubber parts improve roller-cone bit performance at high temperatures

  Author David Shakhovskoy, Aaron Dick, Gary Carter and Martin Jacobs

  While drilling a geothermal prospect in Australia, rubber bit components containing fluorine drilled longer intervals, had longer drilling times and experienced less compression set than conventional components.

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Jan 2011

• Understanding uncertainty in CSEM

  Author Michael E. Glinsky and James Gunning

  Resolution and uncertainty of inverting CSEM remote sensing data can now be estimated using Bayesian statistics.

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Dec 2010

• Innovative thinkers

  Author Nell Lukosavich

  Chilean miner rescue: The drilling team that defied all odds 

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