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Collaboration on special production riser coupling meets new challenges
Two industry leaders in riser systems worked together to create and manufacture an innovative special coupling to meet the installation requirements of a single-barrier top tension production riser.
Standardization or innovation?
The subsea market in Norway is humming thanks to innovative designs, but many are debating a change in tune as standardization is seen as a way to control costs.
Deepwater offloading solution evolves
Direct offloading concept inspired by marine life offers flexible oil transfer from ultradeepwater fields.
Eagle Ford Shale completions evaluation
With proppant placement analysis, propped and unpropped parts of a reservoir can be identified, implying productive and nonproductive parts of the total SRV.
Training tomorrow’s subsea engineers
With a looming personnel shortage and a need for technological breakthroughs, one university is tackling the problem with help from industry.
Market tightens for well stimulation services
The move to pad drilling and batch completions is tightening supply for pressure pumping equipment, prompting operators to add capacity.
Doing more with less
The upstream sector today is faced with increasing complexity in terms of its projects as well as continually rising costs. It must continue learning fast how to do ‘more with less,’ according to a leading panel of experts, if it is to achieve long-term sustainable growth.
Tree refurbishment key to Troll IOR campaign
Pit Stop strategy puts subsea tree program in the fast lane.
Subsea wellheads designed for the land ‘Down Under’
In facing the challenge of subsea tree and system designs for Western Australia’s Prelude and Wheatstone fields, one company finds success.
Permian Basin production heats up
Improved technology and favorable oil prices drive the industry to continue to unlock the play’s unconventional resources.
Norwegian project conveyor belt rolls on
Despite some industry concern over certain aspects of Norway’s petroleum tax regime and rising project costs causing spending cutbacks, development activity in its offshore sector remains at a healthy level.
Large water-management project meets with success
Operators use pipeline to transport and recycle nearby wastewater for fracking operations.
Reservoir characterization uses digital rock physics
A case study in the Wolfcamp Formation indicates that DRP can help identify shale facies.
Novel water-based drilling fluid for HP/HT wells
Dedication to innovation is the key for operational excellence.
New method characterizes naturally fractured reservoirs
Orthotropic inversion combined with stochastic rock physics modeling can help map heterogeneities.
Interdisciplinary integration made easier
Rock physics provides the link between geomechanics, geopresssure and quantitative seismic interpretation.
Redesigning stimulation, lateral placement to boost production
By implementing stimulation initiatives and multilateral sectional development in its wells in Sumner County, Kan., one company expects to lower capex and improve returns going forward.
Annular casing packers isolate longer laterals, deeper wells
Zonal isolation is more critical in unconventional wells to prevent gas migration and to support the cement column in lost-circulation zones.
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