August 2011

• Friends Or Foes ?

  The changing role of NOCs means IOCs must leverage their expertise to access new reserves.

• The Business Case For A New Leadership Paradigm

  Industry executives must lead the push to regain the public’s trust.

• Unconventional Energy Matters

  Informed by more than 40 years in the energy industry, investment banker Thomas A. Petrie looks forward to what the future holds for the oil and gas industry.

• Understanding Shale Fractures Leads To Better Production, Lower Cost

  DFN simulation is shedding new light on natural and hydraulic fracture systems.

• New Approach Takes Health, Safety Intervention To A New Level Offshore

  Understanding the factors that influence human behavior create a safer work environment.

• Real-Time Whirl Detector Improves RSS Reliability, Drilling Efficiency

  New tool addresses need to detect and control backward whirl to mitigate downhole drilling risks.

• Chrome-Free WBM A Viable Option For Ultra-HP/HT Applications

  Engineering drilling fluids for ultra HP/HT applications, particularly in sensitive ecosystems, can be a daunting proposition.

• Digital Rock Physics Provides New Insight Into Shale Reservoir Quality

  Advanced imaging, rigorous physics, and high-speed computation combine to reveal reservoir properties of organic-rich shales.

• From Seismic Data To Prospect Identification And Drilling Models

  Often, operating companies ask for seismic data, but one company can deliver more.

• Enterprise Risk Management Evolves To Take On Global Business

  Companies that want to gain a competitive advantage must move beyond mere compliance-related activities to improve their ability to manage risk.

• Midcontinent’s Granite Wash Has True Grit

  A revival in the Anadarko basin has awakened a geologically challenging, liquids-prolific tight sands resource play.

• Investment Resurgence Buoys ROV Market

  Demand growth will be strongest in North America, Africa, and Latin America.

• Unconventional Resources Benefit From Custom Chemical Regimes

  Frac fluid designed in play-specific programs can increase operations throughout the life-of-well cycle.

• Pump Up The Volume

  Nothing is artificial about ESP technology’s ability to enhance production.

• AUVs Take On Pipeline Inspection

  Advanced technology enables the world’s longest multisensor AUV pipeline inspection.

• Feeding Time For The Asian Tiger

  SE Asia’s hunger for gas spurs upsurge in E&P activity and spending.

• International Highlights

  Repsol Sinopec and partners Statoil and Petrobras have made an ultra-deepwater oil discovery in the presalt Campos basin.

• CBM Asia Development Corp.: Second Test Well Flaring Gas At South Sumatra CBM Block

• Queensland Coal-Seam Gas Heats Up LNG Competition

  Queensland would become the third Australian state after Western Australia and Northern Territory to be a major LNG supplier.

• Safety Takes A Step Forward

  Safety has long been a priority for the global oil and gas industry, but it moved onto center stage nationally in the US following the Macondo incident in the Gulf of Mexico.

• SAP Application Executes More Data Loads In Less Time

  New user-friendly tool eases data transfer.

• G&G Software Accelerates User Productivity

  A new knowledge environment focuses on the human interface to improve user efficiency and advance corporate knowledge capture.

• BNDES Reserves R$4 Billion To Fund Oil And Gas Development

• Transocean Names Senior VP Of Marketing

• RTM Aids In Earthquake Study

  Repsol’s Kaleidoscope project is being tapped to increase understanding of tectonic movement.

• TGT Field Offshore Vietnam Produces First Oil

• Is The ‘Old School’ Still The Only School?

  With the rapid pace at which shale plays are being brought online in North America, can conventional tools keep up with the pace?

• Maximize business efficiency through all-encompassing Processes

  Traditional management systems struggle to deal effectively with the complexities of global oil and gas operations. A new approach gives companies an edge.

• Technology Tidies Up EOR’s Act

  Commercialization of next-generation solutions shows a cleaner way ahead.

• Tech Trends

  Built on the Schlumberger REDA Hotline550 electrical submersible pump (ESP) system, the REDA HotlineSA3 high-temperature ESP system incorporates a newly integrated design that effectively extends the ESP operating envelope and run life.

• Getting To ‘Yes’ On Shale Gas

  US shale gas reserves are enormous, but development hinges on resolving environmental concerns.

• New Production Profile Predictor Method Determines Well Performance

  Current technologies that measure downhole fluid rates all suffer from a fluids fall-back problem in addition to inherent inaccuracies. A new approach eliminates these problems and the measurement costs.