March 2010

• Gary Schein, Dale Resources, LLC

  Schein was part of a pioneering group that was willing to try, fail, and try again to get the right recipe for success in this challenging environment.

• BNE embodies ‘the purpose-driven business’

  Going from nothing to more than 4,500 b/d of oil in four years is having a positive impact on this transformational company. It’s also having a positive impact on the people of Belize.

• Operators develop two of a kind in Angola

  FMC plans and provides subsea equipment for BP’s Greater Plutonio and Total’s Pazflor projects.

• Innovation continues to transform subsea systems

  Technologies applied on the Norwegian Continental Shelf will soon enter the Gulf of Mexico.

• Industry responds to public take on hydraulic fracturing

  With the introduction of shale gas drilling in the northeastern US, newspapers have a new front-page headline, and politicians have a new subject to debate (mostly with a negative view) — hydraulic fracturing.

• The shale frenzy comes to Europe

  The country is host to several plays that could yield trillions of cubic feet of gas.

• World’s coiled tubing unit fleet grows

  Annual CT rig count indicates another 5% increase in 2009.

• North America gas markets positioned for growth

  The world’s major economies appear to have turned the corner after the ‘Great Recession,’ but short-term challenges remain.

• Nature’s way is the best way

  Elegant in its simplicity, a new water reclamation service has been introduced, and it begs the question, “Why didn’t we think of this before?”

• Effective perforating and gravel placement

  Dynamic surging, followed immediately by prepacking, enables more effective gravel packing for sand control and, in an example from Malaysia, improved well performance.

• Time-lapse breaks North Sea bounds

  For years the purview of North Sea operators, 4-D seismic is now being applied around the world in both land and offshore environments.

• Cost-effective, high-resolution hydraulic fracture microseismic monitoring – anywhere, anytime

  Buried arrays provide increased reservoir understanding at a fraction of the cost of surface monitoring.

• Collaboration key to enabling water management solutions

  Operators, technology companies, and service providers need to work together to meet shale gas production water management challenges.

• Statoil completes Peregrino platform offshore Brazil--OFFSHORE

• Drilling begins anew in Falkland Islands

  Desire Petroleum drilling again after a decade.

• To infinity and beyond!

  Advances in technology continue to boggle the mind.

• New rules emerge for securing supply

  The cost of services and supplies skyrocketed through 2008, but has not dropped significantly since the onset of the global recession. Major suppliers gathered at CERA Week to talk about where the industry has been, where it is today, and where they think it is going.

• Deployment of Sercel DSU3-428 provides successful high-quality completion for Colombian 3-D/3-C survey--EXPLORATION

• Connectivity drives productivity

  Intelligent Operations is changing how companies do business, and advances that have taken place in the last 10 years are changing the playing field for international operating companies.

• High-resolution displays effective for regional interpretation

  ‘Detail in context’ offers the interpreter a different perspective.

• Seismic in the US Atlantic? Not just yet

  Despite some hopeful signals from Washington, the oil and gas industry has a long way to go before it can begin to explore the Atlantic OCS.

• New Bits Shine In The Shales

  New drill bits are optimized for unconventional reservoirs.

• Upload experience, download knowledge

  With technology development changing the face of training, one company takes a look at what lies ahead for learning in the oil and gas industry.

• Production. It’s a beach!

  Sand, water and lots of sunshine make for an idyllic seaside setting. However, in the oilpatch, we can do without the first two.

• Steve Ballmer shares his vision

  The chief executive of Microsoft Corp. was in Houston to talk with oil and gas executives about the future of collaboration and cloud computing.

• New subsea electronic module offers enhanced communications

  An innovative concept for improved subsea communications soon will be put to the test in the Norwegian North Sea.