E&P Magazine - February 2016
Digital
Degradable diverter offers another option in zonal isolation and diversion.
As I See It
Delayed Production Means Only One Winner
With analysts vying to pronounce ever-gloomier predictions, beyond the decimated spending plans lurks a seemingly ever-present fact of life.
Cover Story
Maintaining Well Productivity With Effective Multistage Refracturing
Degradable diverter offers another option in zonal isolation and diversion.
Slowdown Allows Industry To Get Back To Basic Science
What the industry is going through now is healthy, albeit painful. Companies can focus on what technologies are best for each play.
World View
Leading With Lean: Hess Increases Efficiency, Lowers Costs
Through a radical shift in thinking, the company finds that success is repeatable with its ‘army of problem solvers.’
Industry Pulse
Delivering Effective Commercialization
Aligning horizons across R&D organizations will enable successful commercialization and deployment.
Market Intelligence
A Permian Basin Primer
Although Permian Basin oil services work has held up better than other markets, contractors in all service lines foresee tougher conditions in 2016.
Exploration Technologies
Keep It Simple, Stupid
What might the next-generation marine vibrator include? Try a servo motor and a radial tire.
Drilling Technologies
Too Much Supply, Not Enough Demand Will Drive 2016 E&P Spending
The average U.S. onshore rig count will fall by 29% in 2016 and will exit the year at 660 rigs.
Completions and Production
Another Piece Placed In The Production Puzzle
A field trial of a new artificial lift approach delivers promising results in the Mississippi Lime play.
Offshore Advances
Storm Clouds Gather Over UKCS
Iona has become the first casualty of 2016, but many more North Sea companies are under threat from the plummeting oil price.
Special Report
A Safe License To Operate
The safety of E&P employees is the top priority.
Digital Solutions
Trout Fishing And Automation
They actually have a lot in common.
Shale Solutions
Higher Level Of Perforating Safety And Efficiency
New perforating system greatly reduces the threat of a misfire.
Offshore Solutions
Shift In Downhole Sand Control
Hydraulic screen technology efficiently completes sand-plagued wells.
Operator Solutions
Single Bit/BHA Drilling In Eagle Ford Wells Reduces Time, Costs
The bit was designed to drill the tangent, curve and lateral sections in one run.
Features
Adding Value Through Reprocessing, Facies-based Inversion
Despite having little well data, a new workflow shows continued promise in the Carnarvon Basin.
Addressing Artificial Lift Predicaments
The challenge is to get more with less.
Back To The Future For Subsea Control Fluids
As the boundaries of subsea operations continue to be pushed, one question to be asked is ‘Should we be looking back to the future for the next generation of subsea control fluids?’
Battle Ahead For UK North Sea
Oil & Gas UK warns of tough times ahead for the North Sea, but projects due to come onstream offer a glimmer of hope.
Bringing Seabed Processing Into Mainstream
The subsea processing industry is at a pivotal point as it transitions from mostly niche ‘oneoff’ projects to mainstream field developments, where its value is now largely accepted.
Driving From Downhole
The 15% savings that PMMs offer over induction motors translates to a staggering potential cost savings in the region of $1.5 billion to $2 billion a year if there was universal adoption.
Fluid Conditioner, HPDE Cut Lubricant Costs, Improve ROP
Using a fluid conditioner and applying HPDE through a steady stream, an operator in the Bakken experienced reduced motor wear and used only one bit to drill a 3,201-m Three Forks lateral.
Interactive Rock Physics In Multiwell Studies
Modeling combinations can be presented in an interactive way to other geoscientists while keeping the rock model fundamentals untouched.
Latest In A Venerable Line
The drillship has been and remains a versatile vessel design that has proved itself an integral part of the E&P industry’s adventure into deeper waters since Global Marine’s converted CUSS 1 first entered the scene in the late 1950s.
Leveraging A Down Market To Improve Company Fundamentals
Industry slowdown provides the time needed to identify and capitalize on opportunities.
New-age Approach To An Age-old Problem
A novel surfactant/oxidant system provides a single-step treatment for oil-based filter-cake removal.
Piney Woods Gusher
The East Texas oil boom first bloomed near Mrs. Bradford’s garden in 1930.
Unconventional Report
Quest For Success In Vaca Muerta
Like in many shale plays around the world, players interested in the Vaca Muerta Formation must overcome steep learning curves and find adequate financing. But the prize is there.
Tech Watch
Making The Connection
Infrared system provides an inside look at tubular connections.
Tech Trends
Tech Trends
This section lists some of the latest technology trends.
Activity Highlights
International Highlights
International Highlights: Current Projects and Other Global Developments
On The Move
On The Move
On The Move: this section lists new hires, promotions and retirements as well as new company offices/facilities.