SPE Drilling & Completion
Volume 25, Number 4, December 2010

Executive Summary
Curtis Cheatham, Weatherford International

25 Years of SPE Drilling Papers
Index of peer-reviewed papers published from 1986 through 2010

Executive and Associate Editors

2010 SPE Drilling & Completion TE-AE Awards

Publication Information

General Drilling

119884-PA

Drilling Automation: Technologies, Terminology, and Parallels With Other Industries

John Thorogood, SPE, Drilling Global Consultant LLP; Walt Aldred, SPE, Schlumberger; Fred Florence, SPE, NOV; and Fionn Iversen, SPE, IRISpp. 419-425Preview | PDF ( 1,281 KB )    Rights & Permission

122079-PA

Cementing Casing Strings Across Salt Zones: An Overview of Global Best Practices

Bill Hunter, Farzad Tahmourpour, and Ronnie Faul, SPE, Halliburtonpp. 426-437Preview | PDF ( 1,146 KB )    Rights & Permission

133417-PA

High-Integrity Wellbore Surveying

Roger Ekseth, SPE, Gyrodata; Torgeir Torkildsen, SPE, SINTEF; Andrew Brooks, SPE, Baker Hughes; John Weston, SPE, Gyrodata; Erik Nyrnes, SPE, Statoil; Harry Wilson, SPE, Baker Hughes; and Kazimir Kovalenko, SPE, Gyrodatapp. 438-447Preview | PDF ( 658 KB )    Rights & Permission

128933-PA

Multiwell Thermal Interaction: Predicting Wellbore and Formation Temperatures for Closely Spaced Wells

Albert R. McSpadden, SPE, and Oliver D. Coker III, SPE, Altus Well Expertspp. 448-457Preview | PDF ( 2,151 KB )    Rights & Permission

139426-PA

Managing Drilling Vibrations Through BHA Design Optimization

J.R. Bailey, SPE, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, and S.M. Remmert, SPE, RasGas Company Limitedpp. 458-471Preview | PDF ( 7,539 KB )    Rights & Permission

119287-PA

Probabilistic Well-Time Estimation Revisited

A.J. Adams, C. Gibson, SPE, and R. Smith, SPE, Nexen Petroleum UK Limitedpp. 472-499Preview | PDF ( 1,513 KB )    Rights & Permission

Wellbore Stability, Geomechanics, and Drilling Fluids

119748-PA

Case History: Successful Wellbore Strengthening Approach in a Depleted and Highly Unconsolidated Sand in Deepwater Gulf of Mexico

Darryl Fett, Frederic Martin, Claude Dardeau, and Joel Rignol, SPE, Total E&P; Saddok Benaissa, SPE, Baker Hughes; Jose Adachi, and Jorge Pastor, SPE, Schlumbergerpp. 500-508Preview | PDF ( 1,765 KB )    Rights & Permission

114130-PA

Quantitative Analysis of Mud Losses in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs: The Effect of Rheology

R. Majidi, SPE, S.Z. Miska, SPE, M. Yu, SPE, and L.G. Thompson, SPE, University of Tulsa; and J. Zhang, SPE, BPpp. 509-517Preview | PDF ( 526 KB )    Rights & Permission

124464-PA

Wellbore-Instability Predictions Within the Cretaceous Mudstones, Clair Field, West of Shetlands

R. Narayanasamy, SPE, D. Barr, SPE, and A. Milne, BP Explorationpp. 518-529Preview | PDF ( 5,459 KB )    Rights & Permission

123651-PA

A Comprehensive Modeling Analysis of Borehole Stability and Production-Liner Deformation for Inclined/Horizontal Wells Completed in a Highly Compacting Chalk Formation

K. Furui, SPE, G.-F. Fuh, SPE, and N. Abdelmalek, SPE, ConocoPhillips; and N. Morita, SPE, Waseda Universitypp. 530-543Preview | PDF ( 4,096 KB )    Rights & Permission

119509-PA

Sixty Days Ahead of Schedule: Reducing Drilling Risk at Valhall Using Computational Geomechanics

Tron Golder Kristiansen, SPE, and Roar Egil Flatebø, BP Norgepp. 544-554Preview | PDF ( 9,499 KB )    Rights & Permission

Hydraulic Fracturing

125250-PA

A Crosslinkable Synthetic-Polymer System for High-Temperature Hydraulic-Fracturing Applications

Jeremy Holtsclaw and Gary P. Funkhouser, SPE, Halliburtonpp. 555-563Preview | PDF ( 841 KB )    Rights & Permission

Managed-Pressure Drilling

119964-PA

Managed-Pressure Drilling Using a Parasite Aerating String

Zimuzor Okafor, Shannon Higgins-Borchardt, Goke Akinniranye, and Tom Bratton, Schlumberger; and Ricardo Avila and Danny Boone, ConocoPhillipspp. 564-576Preview | PDF ( 8,483 KB )    Rights & Permission

124054-PA

Improved Kick Management During MPD by Real-Time Pore-Pressure Estimation

Jan Einar Gravdal, SPE, International Research Institute of Stavanger; Michael Nikolaou, SPE, Øyvind Breyholtz, and Liv A. Carlsen, University of Houstonpp. 577-584Preview | PDF ( 810 KB )    Rights & Permission

SPE Honors Technical Paper Reviewers

SPE created "A Peer Apart" program to recognize dedicated individuals who have been involved in the peer review of 100 or more papers. Members who commit their time to peer review papers make substantial contributions to the industry's literature by helping to ensure that the papers published in SPE's technical journals are of the highest quality. Over time, these individuals volunteer hundreds of hours to the Society, making SPE journals a valuable resource for the industry.

This year, five individuals join the elite group of members who have reached the milestone of 100 papers reviewed. These individuals were recognized during the Editorial Review Committee reception at SPE's Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition.

Mojdeh Delshad, University of Texas, Austin
Simon W. Richards
, Consultant
Marco R. Thiele
, Streamsim Technologies
Omar J. Varela
, ExxonMobil Upstream Research
Christoph Zerbst, SEIC

 


Call for Papers on CO2 Management
SPE Economics & Management

Are you involved in, or conducting research in, CO2  management? As one of the most important challenges facing the upstream industry today, this topic will be the subject of a dedicated issue of SPE's newest quarterly online journal slated for July of 2011. SPE Economics & Management wants your papers about the practice, policy, and strategy of managing CO2. Papers could address, for example, management systems developed to achieve emissions reductions, efficiency initiatives designed to reduce CO2 emissions, development of R&D portfolios targeted at delivering relevant technologies, and deployment of emissions reduction technologies, such as carbon capture and sequestration. Reduction and management strategies are increasingly important as resource awareness, and environmental responsibility, continue to shape the advances of the E&P industry. Share your successes, innovations, and research as we explore the methods of reducing our industry's carbon footprint in this special issue of SPE Economics & Management.

Papers exploring these topics should be submitted to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/speem. More information about the journal can be found at http://www.spe.org/papers/pubs/EMjournal.php.

Have a more technical paper about CO2 capture or sequestration? Consider submitting it to one of SPE's other journals. For more information visit http://www.spe.org/papers/pubs/coverage.php.