Well placement in mature reservoirs can be tricky, but the right logging-while-drilling tools makes it easier.

Among industry “firsts,” extended reach operations are achieving bold advances that only promise to enhance the industry’s capability to attain more reserves with less of an impact.

For gas wells drowning under liquid loading, an economical, efficient artificial lift method is a lifeline to restoring steady production.

Integrated WebGIS creates a repository to promote faster access to E&P documents and records in smaller companies.

Compared side by side, drilling extended reach wells from a platform shows a dramatic cost savings against placing a traditional template on the seafloor. StatoilHydro’s Gulltopp well is proof.

Technology first developed in 1816 is employed as a highly effective solution for well-pumping and other power requirements in remote well locations.

New system uses spare subsea electrical circuitry or co-existent power supplies to convey increased well and reservoir data to topside data acquisition systems for analysis.

Enormous increases in exploration and development costs will continue to affect production levels.

From this vantage point, it is difficult to determine who might be winning, what exactly they are fighting for and how they differ in any substantive sense.

The primary attraction of this line of work is having an unobstructed view of the world’s most important industry at a pivotal time in its history.

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