Current Issue: December 2018 ///
Special Focus
Mike Slaton, Contributing Editor
Control and automation are long-time centers of gravity for rig innovation. But high tech is redefining both with remarkable advances in safety, efficiency and operational capabilities.
Features
Kurt Abraham, World Oil
By all measures, most of 2018 has been an improvement on 2017, which was markedly better than 2016.
Kurt Abraham, World Oil
When Apache founder and former Chairman Raymond N. Plank passed away at his Ucross, Wyoming, home on Nov. 8, at the age of 96, it marked the departure of one of the U.S. oil and gas industry’s last truly larger-than-life figures.
Kurt Abraham, World Oil
On Nov. 9, 2018, at the IADC Annual General Meeting held in New Orleans, Trent Latshaw, president of Latshaw Drilling Co. and a World Oil editorial advisor, was named 2018 IADC Contractor of the Year.
Emily Querubin, World Oil
Despite a few recent snags, Permian basin production should continue its upward trend through 2019.
Odis Baxter, Allen Rollins, Boots & Coots—A Halliburton Service
A difficult P&A operation in the GOM was halted, due to a casing part below the slips. Inspection revealed damage so extensive, that further operations or well entry were impossible without changing the BOP for a larger-diameter version. Gas was also emanating from the wellbore, which required a barrier. To solve the problem and reduce NPT, a novel nitrogen freeze technique was employed.
David Blackmon, Contributing Editor
Potential two-year gridlock in the U.S. Congress following the mid-term elections may be a good thing for the domestic oil and gas industry.
Emily Querubin, World Oil
Since the beginning of the U.S. shale revolution, circa 2003, producers have been drawn to the value of the nation’s copious onshore resources.
Astrid Nygaard Engesland, Eirik Dirdal, National Oilwell Varco
A subsea water treatment module enables operators to decouple water management philosophy from topside processes and tailor an injection, based on well behavior in otherwise inaccessible areas of a reservoir.
Jim Redden, Contributing Editor
Despite both production and seasonal gas prices at multi-year highs, asset-holders in the Haynesville and Bossier shales are sending mixed messages as to the breadth of the supposedly percolating recovery.
Columns
Kurt Abraham, World Oil
Observations: The good, bad and indifferent
William J. Pike, World Oil
Permian makes more marks
William (Bill) Head, Contributing Editor
Working to prevent a total collapse of the geophysical industry onshore
Jim Redden, Contributing Editor
Sleepless in the Gulf
Don Francis, Contributing Editor
Liquefying the problem
Tracee Bentley, Colorado Petroleum Council
Colorado’s debate begins a national struggle: Your state could be next
Michele Cowart, World Oil
Sven Krueger: Learn, develop, and deliver
Craig Fleming, World Oil
Vaca Muerta slowly comes to life
News & Resources
Emily Querubin, World Oil
World of oil and gas
Craig Fleming, World Oil
Industry at a glance
Michele Cowart, World Oil
People in the industry
Michele Cowart, World Oil
Companies in the news
Michele Cowart, World Oil
New products and services