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Rebecca Torrellas, online editor, reports from the NAPE Expo in Houston. Operators continue to focus on technologies that will monetize unconventional reserves.

By Lauren Best, Online Editor
With three licenses in tow, the company is on schedule to commence projects in the early part of next year.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
Two lawsuits with potentially damaging consequences stir contractors to action.

By Kevin Parker, Contributing Technology Editor
Information portals are seen as part of a viable solution to integration/collaboration challenges.

By Tayvis Dunnahoe, Senior Editor
Poland is leading the way for unconventionals in Eastern Europe.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
OptoSeis system to be further developed for ultra-high channel count onshore applications.

By Rebecca Torrellas, Managing Editor
The latest version of Petrel analyzes risk as well as improve exploration.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
Multicomponent seismic offers processing and interpretation challenges as well as added cost. But it might be critical in plays like the Bakken.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
To remove any hint of a conflict of interest, the US Minerals Management Service’s regulatory duties will be separated from its royalty collection.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
The SEG Foundation has founded Geoscientists Without Borders to apply the science of geophysics to aid humanity.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
Proponents of simultaneous sources are banking on newer, better processing techniques to take advantage of the cost-savings this technique enables.

By Ron Harper, IHS
New data suggests there are large potential prospects offshore Jamaica, which is about to restart exploration after a 15-year hiatus.

By Chris Johnston and Russell Krohn, Pride International
New rigs increase expertise in deepwater exploration.

By Ian Sutton, AMEC Paragon
New MMS Rule expected in June 2010 will set new expectations for the US OCS.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
A variety of new ways to interact with computers can ease the drudgery of point and click.

By ASHLEY E. ORGAN, Assistant Editor
1Q results reveal North West Europe activity was relatively quiet.

By Judy Maksoud Murray, Editor, E&P
While some operators look for ways to get more out of established shales, others are looking for the next big play.

By Mike Yates, Apache Corp.
Apache didn’t let a little thing like an international border get in the way of its data acquisition.

By LOUISE S. DURHAM, Contributing Editor
A nodal land system proves useful both for acquiring data and appeasing nearby residents.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
Geokinetics continues its growth spurt with its recent purchase of PGS Onshore.

By Jaime A. Stein, Robert Wojslaw, Tom Langston, and Scott Boyer, Geotrace
A new processing algorithm indicates fracture orientation.

By Jack Caldwell, OYO Geospace
A new seismic acquisition system earns its spurs on the global stage. Three operators report their experiences.

By Duane Dopkin and Joanne Wang, Paradigm
A new imaging system uniformly illuminates the subsurface.

By Ed Kragh, Schlumberger Cambridge Research
DISCover a new acquisition and signal processing technique solves one of the most vexing problems of deepwater exploration — imaging both shallow and deepwater events with clarity.

By Nina Rach, Drilling Editor
Shales are heterogeneous and plays differ, but new, innovative technologies are available to help explorationists and engineers.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
Knowing the answer to this question can save costly mistakes.

By Larry Prado, Activity Editor
Across all unconventional plays, speaker Murray Roth said that advanced seismic applications and techniques could provide the benefits before drilling.

By Mark Thomas, SPE
The SPE Intelligent Energy conference and exhibition will take place in Utrecht, The Netherlands, March 23-25, 2010. The conference provides a platform to discuss digitally enabled and associated technology that helps maximize production, increase recovery, and improve HSE the oil and gas industry.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
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.

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

By Chris Neale, MicroSeismic Inc.
Buried arrays provide increased reservoir understanding at a fraction of the cost of surface monitoring.

By Theresa Ward, Managing Editor, Hart Downstream Newsletter Group
If legislation being debated today is passed, it could have serious financial repercussions for the oil and gas industry.

By MONIQUE A. HITCHINGS, Editor, Fuel
While the US withdrawal from Iraq is being planned, representatives within the country are laying the groundwork for growth.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
Company expects to drill an additional 10 wells in the Rooney Project.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
New methodologies reduce cost, improve data quality.

By Guy Barlow, Oracle
Project portfolio management software solutions help E&P companies profit in challenging times.

By Steve Rogers & Bill Dershowitz, Golder Associates
Modeling discrete fracture networks optimizes frac design and performance.

By David Chapman and Carla Nelson Thomas, Advanced Energy Consortium
The AEC makes progress toward illuminating the reservoir with a world-class team of interdisciplinary researchers working on a portfolio of nanotechnology-based sensor technologies.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
The sale covered nearly 32,000 acres of Pennsylvania State Forest land.

By Chris Cunnell, WesternGeco
The key to deriving reliable images from seismic data is high-quality anisotropic imaging and model building using all relevant data in efficient workflows that recognize there may not be one right answer.

By Geoff Dorn and Gwen Pech, TerraSpark
A new approach enables the interpretation of all geologic features represented in a 3-D volume as complete three-dimensional surfaces.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
Biggest, fastest, first-ever — it’s all in a year’s work.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
You want better-faster-cheaper? You got it! Innovative technologies continue to emerge.

By Marie Guillot, ABACO International
As business cycles back up, we will be presented with different talent management challenges than ever experienced in the past.

By Staff Report
The Australian oil and gas industry could soon experience a major skill shortage, says a leading recruitment firm.

By Stuart Lewis, IHS Inc.
Though exploration activity has fallen off, a number of countries in the region are opening licensing rounds to encourage more outside investors. Sizable new discoveries indicate the region is still very prospective.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
Jeff Hume, CEO of Black Marlin Energy, discusses his company’s unique business model and his hopes for success in East Africa.

By Marcus Ganz and Jim Thomas, WesternGeco
Integrating seismic with non-seismic techniques has proven to lower exploration risk, particularly in deepwater frontiers where challenges, logistics, and costs can be formidable.

By Lucy MacGregor, Richard Cooper, and Jason Tinder, OHM Rock Solid Images
EM data are at their most useful when integrated with other data types.

By Don Crider and Mike Scherrer, Focus Exploration; and Dave Ridyard and Honglin Yuan, EMGS Americas
Technique helps reduce risk in GoM projects.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
Whether it’s new sources, new acquisition techniques, or new processing algorithms, advances in geophysical technology continue to test the limits.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
A recent survey indicates that the geophysical contracting industry is still a tough place to make a living.

By Paradigm
A newly introduced data integration and data management system provides energy companies with an open and scalable solution for collecting, managing, securing, and using E&P data from a diverse set of data sources.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
Speakers at Offshore Europe warn of increased competition in the face of rising costs.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
New find will take everything the industry can throw at it.

By Jack Dvorkin, Stanford University and Ingrain Inc.
New sampling techniques bring field-size tests into the laboratory.

By Carl H. Sondergeld and Chandra S. Rai, Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering
Combining standard petrophysical measurements with new rock physics observations can help characterize unconventional reservoirs.

By Arthur Cheng, OHM/RockSolidImages
Interpreting the changes in seismic signature for time-lapse monitoring requires a rock physics model that can handle stress changes.

By Philippe Theys, consultant
When I joined the oil industry in 1972, my plan was to retire at 55 and stop worrying about work and career.

By JEANNE STELL, Financial Editor, Oil and Gas Investor
Congressman dubbing the cap-and-trade bill the “cap-and-tax” bill says it will have significant economic impact well beyond what the Democrats have predicted.
By ASHLEY ORGAN, Contributing Editor
A recent report shows industry salaries remain fairly flat, but that geologists, geophysicists and geological/geophysical technicians will see the biggest jump in compensation in the near term.

By Wooley, Baker Hughes Inc.
A new methodology has significantly expanded the operational envelope of wireline.

By Jim Galford, Halliburton
Predicting reserves and production estimates in complex reservoirs is becoming less challenging with new formation evaluation tools.

By Hans Bratfos, Det Norske Veritas (DNV)
CCS is held up by many as a necessary means to combat climate change, while others claim that it has no place in a future of sustainable energy supply. For the energy industry the question is: How can future demands be met with low CO2 emitting energy?

By Myers, Wade Dickinson and Wayne Dickinson, SEQEnergy LLC
CCS has dominated global thinking on CO2 emissions reduction and has led to industry projects that are pushing the envelope of today’s technology. One newly introduced concept is a large-scale, non-excavated geologic storage system that can store large volumes of CO2.

By Aaron Ball and Paula Galhar, Looper Reed & McGraw PC
Brazil’s massive presalt reserves and the need for development open opportunities for services providers.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
Chevron latest to announce very disappointing results.

Chinese petroleum industry adopts new GPU-accelerated software solution for seismic imaging, delivering up to a 400x performance increase.

By John Greenway, PGS
Marine contractors have learned from past mistakes. That doesn’t mean this downturn won’t be painful.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
Seismic equipment manufacturers are often the first to suffer in a downturn. But they’re still striving to keep those innovations coming.

A look at onshore and offshore crew counts.

By Cidar Mansilla, Halliburton
Success in Brazil will depend on a perspective that takes advantage of every step in the E&P process.

By ELIZABETH G. JOHNSTON, Editorial Intern
A 57% decrease in offshore activity puts internal energy sufficiency and jobs in jeopardy.

By ANDREA HUFFMAN, Special to E&P
Survey respondents were mostly geologists, but quite a few geophysicists also participated. More than 65% of the respondents were from North America.

By Don Lyle, Contributing Editor
Software companies listened to operators, assessed the need and they're coming up with answers that make sense.

By Jim Martin, Steve Toothill, and Jim Gulland, CGGVeritas; and Martial- Rufin Moussavou, Direction Generale des Hydrocarbures, Republic of Gabon
A new study indicates Brazilian analogs.

By Peter Baillie, TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Co.
A new prospectivity study puts old doubts to rest.

A look at world region crew counts and global onshore/offshore comparisons. 

By RHONDA DUEY, Senior Editor, and ANDREA HUFFMAN and LIZ JOHNSTON, Editorial Interns
Oil companies that license non-exclusive geophysical data need to read their contracts carefully.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
My June column about Edward Mike “Tiger Mike” Davis generated numerous comments from the readers of E&P. I share some of those with you here and encourage you to keep ‘em coming!

By Tony Huang, Yu Zhang, Houzhu Zhang, Jerry Young, and Jo Firth, CGGVeritas
CGGVeritas has developed a Tilted Transverse Isotropy (TTI) anisotropic reverse time migration (RTM) algorithm.

By Judy Maksoud Murray, Editor
The industry made some painful adjustments following a reversal of fortunes in 2008, but as oil and gas markets pick up in the second half of this year, a large number of forward looking companies are investing for growth.

New approach provides an intuitive framework to monitor production-induced fluid movements with 4-D seismic.

By DON LYLE, Contributing Editor
Some of the biggest names in Rocky Mountain exploration talked about their oil and gas finding techniques and the attributes that put them in the exploratory lime light during a forum titled Discovery Thinking at the American Association of Petroleum Geologists annual conference and exhibition in Denver.

By DON LYLE, Contributing Editor
Looking for a structural play in a proven oil province? Check the undrilled anticlines on central Wyoming for potential.

By DON LYLE, Contributing Editor
The man at the top of the pack was Michael S. Johnson, named explorer of the year by the organization when it presented him with the Outstanding Explorer Award the previous day for his discovery of Parshall field, the best producing field in the Bakken Shale oil play in North Dakota.

By Bob Peebler, ION Geophysical Corp.
While the conventional wisdom holds that we should “cut back” in lean times, I would assert that lean times demand unconventional thinking.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
Faster computers and better software are the keys to bringing different disciplines together.

By Craig Davis and Hector Sepulveda, INEXS
In unprecedented span and depth, seismic data is providing insight into the world’s well-hidden resources.

By Staff Report
A Windows-based integration and interpretation software program is being used by leading sequence stratigraphic consultancy Neftex Petroleum Consultants to help oil and gas companies make informed exploration decisions.

By Steven Kopits, Douglas-Westwood Ltd.
For countries like the US and China, which consume large amounts of energy, establishing energy security is a critical concern. Both countries are actively pursuing energy policies, but a close look at their actions indicates their approaches couldn’t be more different.

By Geomage Research Team
New methodology improves prestack time migration.

By Sampat Prakash and Rachael Goydan, Deloitte Consulting LLP
NOCs and IOCs have always shared a delicate co-existence due to mutual dependency. As the global dynamic fluctuates, a new form of cooperation might provide the way forward.

By Taoufik Ait Ettajer and Huw James, Paradigm
Next-generation software will allow geologists to integrate seismic and petrophysical data into their computer-aided interpretation workflow.

By C.H. Blumentritt, Geo-Texture Technologies
Noise reduction techniques provide cleaner datasets.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
A recent webcast highlights the value of gravity, magnetic, and electromagnetic datasets in exploration projects.

By Dave Ridyard, EMGS
It is clear that today’s 3-D EM is beyond meaningful comparison with the product that was available five years ago.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
Deepwater projects are still on the rise.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
Tests are ongoing. But recent presalt discoveries offshore Brazil are screaming “tip of the iceberg.”

By Ian Jack, Contributing Editor
An increased focus on existing reserves will result in a growing emphasis on time-lapse surveys.

By LOUISE S. DURHAM, Contributing Editor
A test in the Gulf of Mexico shows promising results for using ocean-bottom nodes in time-lapse studies.

By Richard Goto, WesternGeco, and Ed Kragh, Schlumberger Cambridge Research
Rough seas introduce unwanted noise in 4-D surveys. New techniques help keep things quiet.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
And unnecessary in an integrated seismic program, one geoscientist argues.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
Déjà vu, they’ve been here before – geophysical contractors once again face challenging times. One organization is trying to soften their landing.

World region crew counts as of April 1st.

By Tayvis Dunnahoe Associate Editor
As a result of drop in price and shrinking or suspended exploration budgets among the world’s operators, ANCAP is recommending relevant modifications to the bidding bases and contract model of the Uruguay Round 2009.

By Paul Taylor, WesternGeco
3-D GSMP brings a new demultiple technique to data processing.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
The founder of KMS Technologies is continuing to push the envelope of electromagnetic (EM) technology. E&P asked Dr. Strack to answer a few questions about his company and the EM industry.

By By Jim White, Geokinetics
Guest Commentary: Compared to the other oilfield service technology industries, overall the seismic sector has not done a very good job of migrating through the more difficult times.

By Louise S. Durham, Contributing Editor
OBS technology provides crucial subsalt information at the Deimos field.

By Gaëtan Mellier, Sercel; and Stuart Denny, CGGVeritas Houston
From steerable streamers to streamers that steer themselves, a new system targets the issues of trousering and feathering.

By S.E. Johnstad, B.A. Farrelly, and R. Smedal, MultiField Geophysics; R. Henman, Wavefield Exploration; and Per Spärrevik, NGI
A seabed system is working to take both measurements at the same time.

By James R. Spear, Hyperdynamics
Encouraging seismic data may open the door to an underexplored area.

By Kevin Parker- Senior Editor
High bids way down because of economy.

By Allen Britton, Core Laboratories
A relative permeability database can overcome hurdles in data acquisition.

By Sherilyn Williams-Stroud, Ph.D., MicroSeismic Inc.
The analysis of the microseismicity in space and time sometimes produces surprising results.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
Hyperdynamics may be sitting on the play of the century. It’s just looking for a few good risk-takers.

By Susan Klann, Oil and Gas Investor
Aging Cement field gets new look.

By Stuart Papworth, WesternGeco
A new system extends the boundaries of land acquisition.

By Tayvis Dunnahoe Associate Editor
Roger Soucy, PSAC President, provides detailed background on the oil and gas industry in Canada and its relation to the current economic climate.

By Tom Davis, professor at the Colorado School of Mines
It may surprise you, but during tough times in the oilpatch, technical innovation trumps mergers and acquisitions as a means of creating economic value.

By Staff Report
International oilfield service company Expro has taken delivery of the only e-line and logging unit of its kind in the North Sea which will shortly begin work for various customers in the UK sector of the North Sea.

By Tayvis Dunnahoe Associate Editor
Recent exploration in Port au Port Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador has established the presence of a rich source rock/unconventional reservoir unit within the Cambro-Ordovician Green Point formation of the Humber Arm Allochthon. Could it be the next big North American shale play?

By Judy Maksoud Murray, Editor
Newfoundland and Labrador has had its ups and downs with offshore exploration, but the approval of the Hebron development, combined with forward-looking plans initiated by the provincial government, has changed the local mood from cautiously optimistic to buoyant.

By Alessandro Castoro and Rebecca Maguire, Fugro-Jason; and Lex de Groot, GDF-SUEZ E&P Nederland B.V.
A seismic-to-simulation workflow achieved a 95% history match without porosity modifiers.

By Joanne Wang, Stan Jayr, and Duane Dopkin, Paradigm
The use of impedances inverted from seismic data helps generate attributes for reservoir property analysis and estimation.

By Gary Yu, Geotrace
This approach starts with raw digital data, data conditioning, and data fusion to create realistic 3-D reservoir models.

By Charles T. Feazel, ConocoPhillips
Reservoir characterization projects should be undertaken with the end result in mind.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
AVO signatures come in all shapes and sizes, but and their impact can be significant.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
Results support existence of fluid in giant oil and gas prospect offshore Guinea.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
When the Great Crew Change meets the Great Recession, it makes for some interesting demographics.

By Gwen Pech, Kenny Gruchalla, and Jonathan Marbach, TerraSpark
It’s beyond anecdotal — large-scale visualization centers provide solid return on investment.

By Dave Hardy, Roxar AS
Today’s 3-D geological models not only provide the tools for incorporating accurate characterizations of reservoir heterogeneity, but also enable multiple scenarios to be quickly built and analyzed to help quantify the inherent reservoir uncertainty.

By Robert V. Schneider, SMT
Affordable Windows-based geoscience software continues to make rapid advances.

By Gordon Arnold and Charles Knobloch, Arnold & Knobloch L.L.P.
Change in the price of oil has brought many new opportunities for acquisitions of upstream organizations. Experience in these transactions teaches that there are special considerations that present hidden opportunities and risk.

By Dalton Boutte, President, WesternGeco
Seamlessly integrating technologies creates a new dimension in geophysical capability and clarity.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
With high commodity prices pushing exploration, several new records were set in 2008.

By Tony Bowman, Schlumberger Information Solutions
In a rapidly changing industry, innovation, collaboration, and openness will pave the way forward. Incorporating advances on existing infrastructure will be one of the cornerstones of success.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
With capital at their disposal, operators and service companies pulled out all the stops in 2008.

By Kevin Parker- Senior Editor
Big companies like to take ideas that work in one place and seed them into their other businesses to see if they work there as well. Technology transfer takes a similar approach when managements in different industries look to spread the use of innovative solutions as far afield as possible.

By Michael Kiehn and Lanlan Yan, Shell
Continuously improving the seismic image quality is key to Shell’s future exploration success in the Canadian Foothills.

By Min Lou, Xiaomin Zhao, Fran Doherty, and James Jackson, VSFusion
First-order free-surface related multiples provide a wider seismic illumination zone than conventional reflections.

By Nick Moldoveanu and Jerry Kapoor, WesternGeco
In 1986 Diamond Shamrock drilled through hundreds of feet of Gulf of Mexico salt and found a thousand feet of reservoir-quality rock beneath it — and the race was on.

By Zhouhong Wei
A newly designed system offers vast improvements over conventional technology.

By Guillaume Cambois, PGS
New streamer technology restores full data bandwidth.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
Analysis indicates that cheaper crude and the credit crisis might spur more industry consolidation.

By Tayvis Dunnahoe, Senior Editor
The E&P Sound and Marine Life JIP will hold project meeting in Houston later this month, which will serve to better focus its research on the effects and mitigation of sound produced by offshore oil and gas industry.

By Kevin Parker- Senior Editor
Shell event acquaints nano experts with global E&P industry, with possible impacts ranging from catalysis to enhanced oil recovery.

By Kevin Parker- Executive Editor
“I scare because I care,” says former Shell president.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
Asset planning that considers 4-D monitoring from the very beginning pays dividends for one company’s deepwater fields.

By Dan Vazquez, CyrusOne
Collocated data centers afford the ability to dedicate an E&P company’s IT resources and staff to other projects and initiatives.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
Seismic-while-drilling has finally come of age.

By Aldi Muhammad Alizar and Roxanne Scott, Golder Associates Ltd.
Developing resources in a decentralizing country requires sustainable community development to promote synergies between corporate initiatives and local government goals.

By Rune Holt, Sintef, and Luc Alberts, Numerical Rocks
A “numerical laboratory” can do the work of a core laboratory in a fraction of the time.

By Gary Yu, Geotrace
A calibrated pressure model offers pressure attributes for a holistic solution.

By Tayvis Dunnahoe, Senior Editor
From a geopolitical standpoint, all eyes are on the Arctic.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
It took US $9.3 million, a team of researchers, and some very patient sperm whales, but the verdict is in – airgun sources do not seem to upset these giant creatures or disturb their hunting patterns.

By Judy Maksoud Murray, Editor
In mid-May 2008, Total acquired 50% participation in two offshore permits in the Vulcan Basin.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
There are a number of wonderful innovations out there, but they’re not going to have the impact that we’ve seen from 3-D seismic. That’s an incredibly high bar.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
A new service combines a vast array of formation evaluation data into a seamless workflow.

By Michael E. Rosenmayer and Noel Atzmiller, Baker Atlas; and Raymond K. Lamborn, INTEQ
A new data delivery system speeds up processing and interpretation time.

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

By Tayvis Dunnahoe, Senior Editor
The US Geological Survey announces the first publicly available petroleum assessment of the Arctic Circle.

By Tayvis Dunnahoe, Senior Editor
Higher gas prices are raising public awareness on the benefits of oil and gas exploration.

By Michael A. Payne, ExxonMobil, and Ken Larner, Colorado School of Mines
We’ve all suffered through poorly executed talks. Here’s how to make sure yours isn’t one of them. This is the first of a two-part series.

By David Skinner, Michael Shook and Bill Haskett, Decision Strategies Inc.
Integrated decision management (IDM) changes how decisions are made. This final article of the three-part series shows how IDM promotes and contributes to successful implementation of those decisions.

By Milko Binza Moussirou and Victor Koosh, Caesar Systems
Shell seeks to reduce time without sacrificing understanding using a new software tool in front-end planning.

By Emely Shay, SMT
Novel processing techniques help one operator overcoming obstacles related to thin, sub-seismic features in the shallow Gulf of Mexico.

By Mark Yust and Kent Hudson, Strategic Contract Resources, LLC
Companies that continue to thrive must develop unique and creative ways of attracting and retaining human capital that will allow their organization to grow and prosper.

By Tayvis Dunnahoe, Senior Editor
Web-based alumni networks are helping oil and gas companies maintain their most valuable asset — experienced employees.

By Paul Farmer and Robert Bloor, ION Geophysical Corp.’s GX Technology Division
A new algorithm is up to today’s demanding business climate.

By Mike Golombok and Djordje Nikolic, Shell
Although contaminated gas makes up a small amount of the world’s reserves, those reserves are becoming increasingly important to international oil companies (IOCs). National oil companies (NOCs) are capitalizing on easier-to-produce sweet gas reserves and leaving the more difficult contaminated reservoirs for the IOCs.

By Joseph Lach and Kenneth McMillen, Knowledge Reservoir;
Increased oil recovery (IOR) screening of the fractured Mogollón Formation in northwestern Peru has led to a plan that will increase recovery and has targeted areas for additional study.

By Moises Cevallos, Romulo Chang, Alex Lanchimba, Robert Penaranda, Repsol YPF; and Filippo Chinellato, Guillermo Cuadros, Ali Mendoza, Esteban Rojas, Schlumberger
Faced with developing a tough, multizone reservoir in Ecuador, an innovative combination of real-time images was used to make proactive geosteering decisions.

By Ross Newman, Spectraseis
Low-frequency passive seismic can go where conventional seismic often can’t and can provide a clearer indication of hydrocarbon

By Roger Welch, TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company
Offshore opportunities abound from Benin to Sierra Leone.

By Kevin P. Corbley, Corbley Communications
Chevron overcomes file size limitations to deploy satellite images in mobile field mapping projects.

By Keith Watt, Reservoir Imaging Ltd.
A new method for survey design overcomes repeatability issues.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
Permanently monitored fields are providing BP with regular reservoir snapshots.

By Alex Bertrand, Gavin Hills-Jones, Jaime A. Stein and Gary Yu, Geotrace
Time-lapse or 4-D seismic is gaining in popularity. But processing issues remain.

By JUDY MAKSOUD, Executive Editor
Since its entry into the offshore in 1997 with the purchase of the Noble Drilling jackup, Pride International has been a company in transition. With its recent move toward deepwater, the company is establishing a new niche for itself on a global scale.

By Tom McAfee, Athens Group and Ray Keenan, Pride
Effective software change management reduces costly software-related problems.

By Gus Cammaert, DNV
“The rising interest in the Barents Sea in connection with petroleum activities and shipping pose considerable environmental challenges, and ambitious solutions must be sought for production, transport, and emergency response systems” (Research Council of Norway).

By By DON LYLE, Contributing Editor
Norway and North Sea operators want to use shore power offshore if they can justify the cost. Now, they can.

By By TAYVIS DUNNAHOE, Associate Editor
Advanced technology and innovative approaches to environmental management can improve operations and increase efficiency.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
Wetlands and coastlines are also beneficiaries.

By Jay Brown, Maritech Resources Inc.
A sharp rise in oil and gas prices, vigorous M&A activity and increased regulatory scrutiny has presented oil and gas companies with an array of opportunities and problems.

By Li GuoXin, Wang YuHua, Zhao Jie, Yang FengPing, and Yin ChangHai, PetroChina and Thomas J. Neville, Sherif Farag, Yang XingWang, and Zhu YouQing, Schlumberger
Violent volcanic eruption in the Pacific ring of fire has created some of the most complex geology on earth. The best efforts of petrophysicists and engineers are required to evaluate the hydrocarbon reservoirs in the region.

By Christian Rau Schiøtt, Hess; Anders Bruun, Schlumberger, Henrik Juhl Hansen, Schlumberger and Ed Palmer, WesternGeco
Hess, WesternGeco and Schlumberger apply a multidisciplinary technique to resolve complex challenges affecting future reservoir development in the Danish North Sea.

By Ian Mechie, Absoft Ltd.
Sophisticated financial accounting software reaches down to the small and mid-sized operator.

By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor
Can geophysical contractors conduct massive non-exclusive surveys without repeating past mistakes?

By Jennifer L. Lewis and Scott L. Neal, Chevron North America E&P
Chevron has undertaken a wide-azimuth seismic survey at the subsalt Jack asset in the Gulf of Mexico. Here’s the value case.

By Pete Stewart, John Tinnin, James Hallin and Chris Friedemann, ION Geophysical Corp.
Multicomponent seismic techniques characterize lithology and fracture patterns in a tight gas reservoir in China.

By Jonny Hesthammer and Mikhail Boulaenko, Rocksource ASA
Controlled-source electromagnetic (CSEM) technology for marine hydrocarbon exploration shows a huge potential. But this potential can only be reached by a combination of an integrated approach and a solid knowledge of how to handle the new technology.

By Richard Cooper, Lucy MacGregor and Joel Walls, OHM
Using CSEM in conjunction with imaging and inversion methods will help determine rock and fluid properties and changes in these properties over time.

By Stephen Pharez and Andrew Long, PGS
Multitransient electromagnetics provides a new tool for subsurface imaging.

By David Smith, Celerant Consulting
 

Asset operating integrity programs that work depend on commitment and support.

By Elizabeth A. LaBarre, EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc., and Thomas L. Davis and Robert D. Benson, Colorado School of Mines
Multicomponent seismic technology can improve the economic success of tight gas exploration and production.

By Shan Jhamandas, Engineering Seismology Group (ESG)
Integrating microseismic monitoring technology into an E&P asset management process pays dividends for operators.

By Duane Dopkin and Joanne Wang, Paradigm
New tools allow the geoscientist to effectively and efficiently make use of multi-dimensional data in the search for new reservoirs or in the optimum depletion of existing ones.

By Peter Engbers, PDO
Oman/Shell joint venture PDO uses seismic quantitative interpretation to maximize business impact in Oman.Impedance inversion

By Michael Smith, Geotrace
BE is a novel technique for extending the usable bandwidth of seismic data.

By David Seale and Lina Gomez,
In an exclusive interview, Dr. Hernan Martin Torres, Colombia’s Minister of Mines and Energy, discussed Colombia’s goals and how his country is working to achieve them. This is the third in a series of E&P interviews with industry leaders.

By AUTHOR Pedro Carrillo, Z-Seis Corp.
Advanced technologies such as crosswell imaging are being used more often to provide a level of ultra-high resolution information that can reliably support drilling, production and EOR operations.

By Steve Lutz, Barco
Many of the biggest players in the oil and gas industry have adopted the latest visualization tools for virtual collaboration, analysis and decision-making. These technologies are not only linking people with data but linking experts with experts for the ultimate in team-based analysis.

By Dean Bilous, Oilexco
Integrated interpretation and modeling improved Oilexco’s reservoir model and reserves estimates for project development.

By Kevin Cornwell and Seth Tyler, Evolve Partners LLP
With the buzz concerning recruiting experienced workers to replenish an aging workforce, it is important to find ways to keep the ones you have.

By Richard Eyers, Shell
Oil and gas E&P activities are now supported using imagery from a range of active and passive satellite-based sensors and have raised expectations across the industry.