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JANUARY 2005

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2005 Tubing Reference Tables

World Oil's reference guide for production tubing and tubing couplings to 5-in. OD. This guide gives connection dimensions, steel grades and coupling type. Connection manufacturersâ€™ contact information is also provided.
Igniting a blowout depends on careful planning and evaluation

D. F. Eby
Making the decision to ignite a blowout should be done carefully. Many, but not all wells are voluntary ignition candidates. Setting certain blowouts on fire may be mandatory, including some H2S wells
Underground blowout causes and symptoms

N. Adams
Although always caused by a pressure differential, there are many ways that flow can be initiated, and signs of a problem may not be obvious
Well intervention stack safety and equipment selection for offshore/ onshore operations

K. Newman and E. Smalley
Use of longer, higher pressure stacks for well interventions prompted design and successful application of a stress modeling and field operation monitoring system.

Features

New vessel expands deepwater geotechnical capabilities

W. S. Rainey
The latest-generation geotechnical drillship can conduct detailed site investigations in water depths as great as 3,000 m. It has proven itself in a variety of locations.
Petroleum Technology Digest: Volumetric balancing locates recoverable hydrocarbons

D. Calogero and G. Stevens
In a 60-year-old Texas field, production was down to less than seven bopd/well. Geologic maps were evaluated with volume/production analyzing software to back a 45-well recompletion project.
Surface BOP with mudline shut-off device: A deepwater well construction alternative

A. Simondin, D. MacPherson, N. Touboul and G. Ragnes
Design and application of industry's first mudline shut-off system to make surface BOP drilling environmentally safer with the accompanying high-pressure riser.

Columns

Editorial Comment

Perry A Fischer, Editor
Sequencing the future of energy
Drilling advances

Les Skinner, Contributing Editor
A new environmental group - everyone's got a stake
International Politics

Tony Sitathan, Contributing Editor, Southeast Asia
Indonesia mulls tax changes; Thai activity booms
What's new in exploration

Perry A. Fischer, Editor
Methane from Mars' surface? New abiogenic methane source discovered on Earth
What's new in production

Robert E. Snyder, Executive Eng. Editor
MMS makes first 10-year production forecast; World offshore forecast

News & Resources

Companies in the news

Vol. 226 No. 1  UWG Group, a global group of subsea engineering companies, has relaunched its business as Acteon, and has announced the first acquisition under its new
Industry at a glance

Vol. 226 No. 1   While oil prices continued to fall around the low $40s, OPEC decided to decrease production by 1 million bopd, wit
New products

Vol. 226 No. 1  Intelligent hydraulic choke The HCM-A Multi-Position Adjustable Hydraulic Choke from Baker Oil Tools offers significant advantages in reliabili
People in industry

Vol. 226 No. 1  Mark McNeill has been named president of Master Flo, Inc. He has been with the company since 1979, and served most recently as VP of marketing. Chad Dann
World of Oil

Kurt S. Abraham, Managing/International Editor

Vol. 226 No. 1  KURT S. ABRAHAM, MANAGING/INTERNATIONAL EDITOR

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