WorldOil

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

• 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.

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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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Apr 2011

• OTC 2011 shifts gears to navigate post-Macondo landscape

  Author Nell Lukosavich

  Given the impact of the Macondo disaster on the offshore oil and gas industry, a special emphasis is being placed at this year’s Offshore Technology Conference on the industry response and operational changes following the spill last year.

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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

• 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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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