WorldOil

Jan 2012

• 4D seismic drives development geosciences for continued success of Forties field infill drilling

  Author Philip Rose, Gregg Barker, Klaas Koster and Jeff Pyle

  In the UK North Sea Forties field, Apache has drilled 100 infield targets with an overall success rate of 74%. As a result, field production has been held at a plateau of 60,000 bopd, increasing from an average 41,000 bopd in 2003.

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Dec 2011

• China spews fire at India-Vietnam E&P pact

  Author Raj Kanwar

  ONGC Videsh Ltd. (OVL), the overseas arm of India’s state-run oil major Oil and Natural Gas Corp., entered a historic cooperation agreement Oct. 12 with PetroVietnam, the national oil company of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

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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

• 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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Jul 2011

• Imaging drilling hazards in a congested North Sea field using nodal ocean-bottom seismic

  Author Klaas Koster, Dave Monk, Arne Rokkan, Rafael Bouraly, Simon Brown, Allison Branan and Shuki Ronen

  To facilitate infill drilling at Forties field, 3D seismic data was needed to image any shallow gas accumulations, but towed streamers couldn’t acquire data beneath or near existing platforms. A nodal acquisition technology using ROV-deployed sensors filled in the blanks.

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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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Dec 2010

• SHALE ENERGY: Developing International Plays-Design and execution of effective hydraulic fracturing taps first shale gas reserves in India

  Author Shyam Sundar Sharma, P. K. Kulkarni, Anil Kumar, Piyush Pankaj, Venkateshwaran Ramanathan and Pande Susanta

  Datafrac testing and mini-falloff analysis aided in the design of frac jobs to produce gas from shale in a field with well-established conventional oil production.

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Dec 2010

• SHALE ENERGY: Developing International Plays-Shale search goes global

  Author Pramod Kulkarni, Editor

  Energy-hungry countries throughout the world are beginning embryonic efforts to replicate the success of US shale plays.

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Dec 2010

• SHALE ENERGY: Developing International Plays-The state of shale plays in Europe

  Author Mike Mullen

  The state of shale plays in Europe

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