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JULY 2004

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Close tolerance liner drilling and requirements for deepwater

K. Smith, B. Houtchens, G. Givens, G. Bailey and D. Reeves
Components for this evolutionary type of drilling have been designed, built and tested onshore to simulate most aspects of offshore usage.
Deep-Shelf and ultra-deep well challenges

R. A. Meize
Deep drilling projects are finding reserves in new offshore frontiers.
Falcon Corridor designed with future small fields in mind

J. Hall, D. Bullard, W. Gray and M. Drew
Flexibility was built into a deepwater, subsea tie-back scheme.

Features

Advanced OCTG topics for critical service, deepwater wells

M. Payne, B. Simpson and R. Livesay
Demands on tubulars require more attention to critical design and inspection.
Aggressive fracturing slashes turbulence

X. Wang and M. Economides
Extensive hydraulic fracturing is necessary to combat strong turbulence that can occur in high-permeability, high-deliverability gas wells.
Are the new composites better than steel?

P. Hill
A wide range of applications and a new draft standard are just two reasons why the material is gaining acceptance throughout the global upstream industry.
Expandable technology and application growth continues

P. Fischer and R. Snyder
Six companies have submitted reviews of recent innovations or improvements.
Expandables and the monodiameter well: Status report

P. Fischer
Achieving the goal of a single-diameter well is still not that easy.
Improved fracturing avoids proppant flowback

J. Canon, T. Pham and P. Valkó
A new predictive methodology can help assess, reduce and prevent the occurrence of this unwelcome condition after frac jobs in tight gas completions.
Managing OCTG supply and delivery

B. Hoffman
Operators can become very unhappy when they have people and rigs waiting on pipe, yet the OTCG management process has hardly changed in decades.
Petroleum Technology Digest: Water control becomes attractive to L.A. basin operators

R. Bates, S. Brown, S. McGurk, I. Ershaghi and G. Swanson
Operators identified water control methods that paid off quickly.
Vertical hydrophone arrays solve transition zone challenges

N. Moldoveanu and M. Spradley
Ghosting during data processing is nearly eliminated by a new method.

Columns

Editorial Comment

Perry A Fischer, Editor
Lies, damn lies and harbor spies, Part 1
Drilling advances

Robert E. Snyder, Executive Eng. Editor
Offshore spending boost predicted; new carbon drill pipe
International Politics

Jacques Sapir, Contributing Editor, FSU
Russian efficiency gains could free up exports
What's new in exploration

Perry A. Fischer, Editor
Lies, damn lies and harbor spies, Part 2
What's new in production

Robert E. Snyder, Executive Eng. Editor
Recovery chemical tested; UK rounds succeed

News & Resources

Companies in the news

Vol. 225 No. 7  For its 30-year commitment to the organization, ExxonMobil was presented with NACME's (National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering) 2004 Corporate
Industry at a glance

Vol. 225 No. 7   Sabotage in the Middle East continues to contribute to higher crude prices and political instability. Ho
New products

Vol. 225 No. 7  Geographic text search MetaCarta has introduced the geOdrive geographic text search solution to help knowledge workers locate unstr
People in industry

Vol. 225 No. 7  Tulsa-based Latigo Petroleum, Inc. has added several industry veterans to its Midland district office. Bill Siruta was named exploration manager for the
World of Oil

Kurt S. Abraham, Managing/International Editor

Vol. 225 No. 7  KURT S. ABRAHAM, MANAGING/INTERNATIONAL EDITOR

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