Current Issue: November 2018 ///
Special Focus
Tom Bass, Emerson Automation Solutions
Improving well pad profitability means increasing output or reducing costs. Wireless networking can help move both needles, enabling operators to reduce their cost basis through efficient facility construction and a scalable architecture.
Terry Moffat, Kirby Jabusch, Sirius Controls Inc.
New technologies perform decision-making locally to control chemical injection pumps at the wellsite and on pipelines, regardless of whether the pumps are tied to a SCADA system.
Ellie Albadvi, Saltworks Technologies
Oil companies have the opportunity to cut costs, recycle water, and improve yields using innovative field tested technologies. Water flood enhanced oil recovery (EOR) produced water desalination proved the cost of polymer can be cut by over 50%, while also recycling precious water. The electrodialysis reversal (EDR) technology with novel oil-tolerant ion exchange membranes may prove to be a new frontier in produced water treatment.
Features
Art J. Schroeder, Jr., Safe Marine Transfer; Collin Gaskill, Trelleborg Offshore & Construction; Scott Draper, River Lab UWA
The technologies and techniques presented significantly reduce deepwater subsea equipment installation and recovery costs, reduce upfront capital equipment cost and facilitate optimized field development.
Lyle Lehman, Frac Diagnostics
Emblematic of the high-voltage development of unconventional resource plays is the growing attraction of beefed-up completions with high-proppant loadings and shorter distances between induced fractures.
Efe Ejofodomi, Richa Sethi, Elcin Aktas, Julie Padgett, Bruce Mackay, Andrew Mirakyan, Schlumberger; Ben McCrackin, Chris Douglas, Manti Tarka Permian
Understanding how shale formations produce is challenging, due to variations in mineralogy/lithology and wetting characteristics. Once these mechanisms have been determined, operators can customize a completion strategy to maximize well performance.
Mike Slaton, Contributing Editor
Inside the Arctic Circle, oil and gas prospects rise and fall on international politics and global warming, as much as geology and the price of oil.
Kurt Abraham, World Oil
A survey of upstream professionals shows that, while operators are making progress in addressing water management issues, there is still plenty of work left to be done.
Adam K. Harper, John W. Green, Andreina Dewendt, John M. Terracina, Hexion Inc.
Advanced technology allows operators to reduce formation water, while maintaining oil and gas production.
Tanhee Galindo, GeoKimika Oil & Gas
Key process variables that contribute to mill-out fluid fouling, contamination and corrosion can be identified with adequate fluid testing. Case studies, from various Permian basin operators, provided the basis for a methodology to assess mill-out operations, and make process improvements that yield economic benefits.
Caleb Smathers, Greg Hallahan, John Sabey, ProSep
Osorb Media Systems (OMS) have been under development and improvement for 13 years, with extensive engineering and commercialization over the last eight years. During that time, many applications were successfully identified and proven via laboratory and field tests.
Ron Ledbetter, Endeavor Management
The oil and gas industry, over its history, has become a “boom and bust” sector. Should this be acceptable? Do we accept the current downturn as another cycle, or use it as an opportunity to change?
Dusty Daves, David Thomas, Blain Lewis, Legacy Reserves Inc.; Nicholas Umholtz, Ahmed Ouenes, FracGeo
Augmenting wireline data with drilling-derived geomechanical logs improves reservoir modeling and quickly identifies potential interference between two wells. The optimized approach enables engineers to correctly estimate NPV for a specific development scenario.
Columns
Kurt Abraham, World Oil
Fickle oil prices return to the market
William J. Pike, World Oil
New methane emission study to look at marginal wells
William (Bill) Head, Contributing Editor
Deciding where to explore
Jim Redden, Contributing Editor
“Blood from a stone”
Don Francis, Contributing Editor
Counting down the hits
Mark Patton, Hydrozonix
“Whiskey is for drinking, and water is for fighting”
Sumant Kawale, Spark Cognition
Digital transformation: Start small, measure success— repeat as you scale
When green wins, a nation’s industry suffers
News & Resources
Emily Querubin, World Oil
FAR Limited (15%)—alongside partners Cairn Energy (operator, 40%), Woodside (35%) and Senegal National Oil Co. (10%)—has submitted its Development and Exploitation Plan for SNE field, offshore Senegal.
Craig Fleming, World Oil
Oil futures slumped 12% late in October, after hitting a four-year high earlier in the month.
Michele Cowart, World Oil
Energean Oil & Gas PLC has appointed Iman Hill as COO.
Michele Cowart, World Oil
Ashtead Technology has completed a subsea installation monitoring project for Subsea7 in support of Equinor’s Utgard development, in Blocks 15/8 (NCS) and 16/18a (UKCS) of the central North Sea.
Michele Cowart, World Oil
Schlumberger has launched the CemFIT Shield mud-sealing cement system to address the challenges due to fluid communication behind casing.