Features

February 2013: Features

• Management

• Permian Basin Renaissance

• Unconventional Exploration Reaches Alaska’s North Slope

• Shopping for New Ideas Outside the Oil Business

• Young Technology Showcase

• Guest Editorial

Technology

February 2013: Technology

Nanotechnology

• Introduction

• Nonmodified Silica Nanoparticles Decrease Water Invasion Into Atoka Shale

• Controlled-Electrolytic-Metallics Completion Devices Combine Strength With Dissolution

• Molecular-Dynamics Study Examines Effect of Nanoparticles on Oil/Water Flow

Well Testing

• Introduction

• Formation-Tester Pulse Testing in Tight Formations

• Integrated Dynamic-Flow Analysis To Characterize an Unconventional Reservoir

• Martin Linge Extended Well Test: Field-Development Decision

Offshore Facilities

• Introduction

• High-Resolution 3D Laser Imaging Advances to Subcentimeter Precision

• Floating 2-MW Turbine Prototype Tests Feasibility of Harnessing Offshore Wind

• World’s Longest Electrically Heated Flowline Allows HP/HT Field Tieback to Existing Host

Drilling Technology

• Introduction

• Early Symptom Detection for Downhole Conditions: Principles and Results

• Optimization Delivers ERD Performance Boost—Sakhalin Island

• High-Confidence Vertical Positioning for Extended-Reach Wells

• Distributed-Dynamics Feasibility Study

Departments

February 2013: Departments

• People

• SPE News

• Tech Bits

• Technology Update

• Technology Applications

• Comments

• President's Column

• Company News

• Regional Update