June 2020 ///
Special Focus
Xiaonan (Lawrence) Lu, Laszlo Soos, Dr. Sunder Ramachandran, Joseph McManus, Baker Hughes
An integrated service strategy, combining advanced system design and targeted chemical treatments, extends ESP run life and lowers replacement costs.
Andrey Fastovets, Diego A. Narvaez, Cristina Vasilache, Schlumberger
Recent advancements in ESP designs and surveillance systems have made the downhole pumps economical for use in unconventional wells. The optimization process also has allowed operators to exploit the improved ESP efficiencies, to increase production and drive down costs in challenging conventional wells, too.
Features
Edward Cross, Kansas Independent Oil & Gas Association
The view from Kansas: Using a combination of technical, financial and regulatory expertise, the U.S. E&P industry will again persevere and move on to future success.
Jim Redden, Contributing Editor
Wells shut-in, DUCs build, as operators look to 2021
Mike Slaton, Contributing Editor
Price and virus woes
Wayne Christian, Railroad Commission of Texas
Some activists can’t resist putting a good crisis to work for other agendas.
Jeff J. Miller, Alexandra Morrison, Halliburton
Utilizing hydraulic modeling software, with digital twin capabilities, provides streamlined fluid solutions for accessing previously inaccessible reservoirs, while reducing rig time and maximizing overall asset value.
Tom Emelander, Weatherford
An off-the-shelf shallow-angle milling system, coupled with a versatile whipstock anchor, enables a deepwater GOM operator to sidetrack from a collapsed expandable liner saving 14 days of rig-time valued at $14 million.
Craig Fleming, World Oil
Canadian officials have united to spur action by the federal and provincial governments to provide immediate assistance to the offshore industry, which has been hit extremely hard by Covid-19 and the collapse of oil prices.
Jared Ciferno, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy
The U.S. NETL continues to research methane emissions from oil and gas field operations, based on well types, while also developing a machine learning-based methane detection algorithm to detect leaks from a drone.
James Young, JDR Cables
One service/supply company in the UK shares its lessons learned in coping with Covid-19 while maintaining operations.
Cio Cio Mario, Rini Saputra, Sera Saifuddin, Triyono Triyono, PT Saka Energi Indonesia; Sabrina Metra, Praprut Songchitruksa, Rajeev Ranjan Sinha, Karthick Vadivel, Schlumberger
Selecting wells for workover or intervention is time-consuming, resulting in fewer well reviews per year and longer intervals between the pre-planning and execution stages. This article presents a solution that uses automation and advanced data analytics to turn months-long manual well selection into a minutes-long process that supports economic production gains.
Manoj Nimbalkar, Weatherford International
Each year, the oil and gas industry could save billions in OPEX if just a tiny fraction of the world’s rod-lift and gas-lift wells had the benefit of autonomous optimization.
Columns
Kurt Abraham, World Oil
Associations take proactive path in Canada and the UK
Craig Fleming, World Oil
U.S. operators shut in production, finally
Willard C. (Bill) Capdevielle, P.E., Contributing Editor
Appreciating depreciation
Richard Holsman, Accenture Microsoft Business Group Lead for Europe
Creating true value from technology in the energy industry
Mauro Nogarin, Contributing Editor
Latin America’s E&P moves at reduced rate
Resources