Issue: March 2018
Special Focus
Placing the wellbore trajectory in the correct formation is crucial to project success. Existing geosteering techniques provide some of the necessary accuracy but can involve drilling unproductive formation. A new technology can give engineers the information they need to geosteer more accurately in real time, at a reduced cost.
The first CT intervention plan that required 15,000-psi-rated well control equipment yields important lessons.
Features
A new MPD approach provides comprehensive decision-making to safely circulate out influxes.
The EPCI solution was just one of many engineering feats within the INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project, offshore Australia.
Lessons are learned from more than 10,000 produced fluids and cuttings samples from more than 200 wells.
Applying traditional decline models to unconventional reservoirs can yield erroneous results, due to invalid assumptions. To accurately forecast EUR in unconventional reservoirs, a new approach is required.
After announcing their partnership and officially forming Gulf Quest LLC in October, Gulf Publishing Company and Quest Offshore Resources are set to host the 15th Marine Construction Engineering Deepwater Development (MCEDD) conference in Milan, Italy.
Bottomhole assemblies for drilling complex offshore wells are incorporating advanced downhole tools more frequently to collect operational data that improves drilling practices.
Effects from the new tax law passed last December will be positive, for the most part, for the U.S. upstream industry.
Oil-rich East Africa continues its uphill battle to recovery
Africa Energy Corp. CEO Garrett Soden says exploration efforts in the region are taking off, increasing the potential for a “Johan Sverdrup-type” discovery offshore
South Africa.
Columns
A “new world order” of oil production begins to emerge
Down the Hall
Exploration fire sale?
Tea and crêpes, perhaps?
Around the block
Operators accept risks of Mediterranean gas development
The oil market and Russia
Recycling produced water cuts disposal costs
Reservoir recovery: An opportunity for digital transformation
If the dam don’t break, recovery will continue
News & Resources
TAG Oil Ltd. (70%), operator of the Puka permit (PEP 51135) in New Zealand’s Taranaki basin, said the Pukatea-1 exploration well was drilled to 10,170 ft, MD, encountering variable hydrocarbon shows.
Crude prices tumbled in February over fear of unfettered U.S. shale output, and a combined increase of 130,000 bpd by OPEC members Libya, Nigeria and Venezuela.
John Loiacono, director of commercial services at Enbridge Energy Company, has been elected chairman of the Texas Pipeline Association (TPA).
Fugro has begun a series of geophysical and geotechnical surveys for ADNOC’s Hail and Ghasha development in the UAE’s Arabian Gulf.
Weatherford has developed a radio-frequency identification (RFID) cementing port collar that allows efficient cement placement, to help operators achieve a competent annular barrier in mature fields and narrow pressure-window environments.
