E&P Magazine - October 2001
As I See It
Prepare logistics for emergencies
Crisis situations call for a readiness plan and emergency solutions.
Cover Story
Russia: Explore opportunities
With its enormous energy resources, Russia should be a major center of foreign investment - but it is not.
Drilling Technologies
Consolidation hits drill pipe market
Tubular manufacturers are finding synergies in mergers and joint ventures.
Features
EDC readies Guayaquil gas
Sometimes it's not enough to discover and produce gas. Sometimes a company has to create the market for it, too.
Tech Watch
Leading, following edges stretched
Higher costs and more remote locations make "We're all in this together" a clarion call for future asset development.
Activity Highlights
Backbone needed
It is hard to know where to start. The World Trade Center is a mass of rubble, one side of the Pentagon is a smoldering wreck, and on the day after the most tragic terrorist attack in the world's history, unknown thousands are dead - perhaps more than 10,000.
Another Perspective
Another hot play for Angola
A recent oil discovery shifts the focus of exploration to Angola's southern deepwater shelf.
Artificial lift system closes loop
The ability to control well flow from anywhere signals another milestone in the evolution of total field and reservoir optimization.
Beneath the Austin Chalk
Independents are drilling deeper than the Austin Chalk to tap the Buda, Georgetown and Glen Rose formations, which have many similarities to the chalk formation.
Completions milestones achieved
Two world records for completions have been achieved - one in a horizontal well, and one in an extended-reach well.
Girassol field readies for production
A confident approach to exploration and development has paved the way for the first of several barn-burning fields offshore Angola.
Good vibrations rock beam pumping
Though relatively simple, rod-actuated pumping systems are sensing some high-tech surges in control equipment.
Smooth steering, substantial savings
Rotary steerable tools have vastly improved drilling performance and hole quality in directional, extended-reach and designer profile wells.
West African safari
While majors hunt the elephants, independents are having a bonanza chasing smaller trophies.
World Map
The rock physics debate rages on
The roundtable discussion becomes virtual as petrophysicists and geophysicists continue to debate the need for interdisciplinary communication.