September 2014 ///
Special Focus
Jaime A. Stein, Geotrace Technology Inc.
Traditional marine seismic data lack the very low and the very high frequencies, as well as some of the middle frequencies, due to ghosting.
Features
David A. Wood, Contributing Editor
The LNG industry continues to expand and diversify amid significant market changes, short-term supply constraints, and the prospect of medium-term oversupply.
Charlie McClean, Bill Myers, Didhiti Talapatra, Mark Sloan, Steve Zuklic, Baker Hughes, a GE Company
In deploying the industry’s first ultra-HPHT perforating system in the Gulf of Mexico, one operator was able to access a previously inaccessible formation.
Kurt Abraham, World Oil
After reaching a plateau last year, worldwide E&P activity is set to resume additional growth, led by a very strong drilling market.
Espen Erlingsen, Rystad Energy
In assessing the value of the Permian basin and its wells in comparison with other shales, this play may not always have the highest IPs and EURs, but it beats the competition with respect to well cost and location.
Maierdan Halifu, Rystad Energy
The Panhandle region in the Anadarko basin has long been exploited by vertical wells. Now, a select group of operators is employing horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing in the Panhandle Liquids plays to target tight oil formations.
Art Carrasco, Arrington Oil & Gas Operating LLC; Joe DeGeare, John Hunter, NCS Energy Services
Coiled-tubing (CT) multi-stage fracturing technology delivered precise frac placement and predictable propped volume in a Bone Spring production operation.
Jim Redden, Contributing Editor
Cheniere Energy may well be the most prominent player in the Haynesville/Bossier shale these days, which, in itself, speaks volumes on the near-term prognosis for a once-lionized gas play that continues to be snagged in a holding pattern.
Jeff Dahl, John Spaid, Devon Energy Corp.; B. W. (Buddy) McDaniel, Bill Grieser, Ronald Dusterhoft, Bill Johnson, Shameem Siddiqui, Halliburton
Horizontal drilling and multi-stage hydraulic fracturing get credit for much of the success in producing from ultra-low-permeability shales.
Columns
Pramod Kulkarni, World Oil
Mind in matter: Future of oilfield computing
William J. Pike, World Oil
Theoretical: Sometimes just that
William (Bill) Head, Contributing Editor
Skill, sweat, occasional blood, money … and luck
Jim Redden, Contributing Editor
Security offsets costly drilling in New Zealand
Henry Terrell, Contributing Editor
Looking for solutions to flaring waste
Ron Bitto, Contributing Editor
Deepwater potential: One factor behind Mexico’s reforms
Jacques Sapir, Contributing Editor
Oil and gas firms muddle past sanctions—for now
Somesh Singh, Paradigm
Cloud services are on a slow, but steady march
Melanie Cruthirds, World Oil
Tret-O-Lite: 100 years of refinement
Kurt Abraham, World Oil
European differences emerge during ONS
News & Resources
Melanie Cruthirds, World Oil
People in the industry
Melanie Cruthirds, World Oil
Companies in the news
Melanie Cruthirds, World Oil
New products and services
Henry Terrell, Contributing Editor
Meeting and events
Roger Jordan, World Oil
World of oil and gas
Henry Terrell, Contributing Editor
Industry at a glance