September 1998
Industry At A Glance

98-09_index.html (Sep-1998)

A monthly magazine offering industry news, statistics and technical editorial to the oil and gas drilling, exploration and production industry.
Archive
September 1998 Vol. 219 No. 9 
Click Here

Horizontal, underbalanced wells yield high rates in Colombia
Scott C. Cooper and Robert L. "Bob" Cuthbertson
In the Middle Magdalena Valley, a U.S. independent drilled the country’s first two horizontal wells using underbalanced techniques
Click Here

Interpretation of thin beds using stratal surfaces
Bob A. Hardage and Randy L. Remington
When two well-defined seismic surfaces are conformal and separated by a uniform thickness, extrapolation into thin beds that lie between them can reveal subtle details
Click Here Comment
Information you might find useful on a variety of "timely" topics
Click Here Drilling
Progress on Halliburton / Shell's JV on developing expandable casing
Click Here

Editorial
News on oil prices, mostly bad; Billy Bob comments on the BP-Amoco merger
Click Here Exploration
Mere megabytes don't cut it any more; How to preserve that seismic data
Click Here International
Companies face the challenge of balancing age groups in the workforce
Click Here Offshore
Anadarko claims sub-salt discovery; Global's SCORE shows drilling decline
Click Here Production
Phillips' Ekofisk redevelopment; Expandable sand screen; API Y2K survey
Click Here Washington
New energy secretary faces big job; Oil royalty calculation still in dispute

Copyright © 1998 World Oil
Copyright © 1998 Gulf Publishing Company
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Connect with World Oil
Connect with World Oil, the upstream industry's most trusted source of forecast data, industry trends, and insights into operational and technological advances.
Subscribe Newsletter Sign Up