October 2004
Volume 56 Number 10
Features
Guest Editorial • “Do Nothing”: Technology’s Toughest Competitor in the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry
Ali Daneshy, President of Daneshy Consultants Intl., discusses how a safe and predictable approach to operations has prevented the use of new upstream technology, which is detrimental to the long-term health of the oil and gas industry. But producers and service companies can overcome this inertia to their mutual benefit.
Case Study • Value in Drilling Derived From Application-Specific Technology
JPT launches a new series of articles that examine the practical application of upstream technology. This first installment examines three projects in which new drilling technologies resulted in greater efficiency and higher production value. In Indonesia, Total successfully integrated three new technologies that enable surface-stack drilling with modified second- and third-generation semisubmersible rigs in ultradeepwater applications. The introduction of steerable reaming-while-drilling bits in conjunction with multilateral Level 6 technology met strategic cost initiatives and regionspecific environmental requirements for Shell Nigeria. And the use of underbalanced drilling in fractured carbonates in northern Thailand by Amerada Hess overcame severe losses resulting from the use of conventional drilling techniques by attaining safe maintenance of pressure control and led to a potential major gas discovery.
Management • Integrated Tubular-Supply-Chain Management Reduces Cost
Brad Hoffman, Business Development Director, Tenaris Oilfield Services, examines how tubular-supply-chain management has evolved and how many companies today are choosing a seamless approach that encompasses full inventory management, just-in-time delivery to the rig, procurement of accessories, and preparation of subassemblies up to the installation of the tubular string downhole.
Completions Today
Sam Gomersall, Commercial Manager, Helix RDS
Na Kika Intelligent Wells—Design and Construction
This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper SPE 90215, “Na Kika Intelligent Wells—Design and Construction,” by C.D. Stair, SPE, Shell Intl. E&P Inc.; M.E.P. Dawson, SPE, Halliburton Energy Services Inc.; S. Jacob, SPE, Well-Dynamics Inc.; and D.B. Hebert, SPE, Shell Intl. E&P Inc., prepared for the 2004 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Houston, 26–29 September.
Flow Assurance in Brazil’s Deepwater Fields
This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper OTC 16687, “A Perspective View of Flow Assurance in Deepwater Fields in Brazil,” by R.M.T. Camargo, M.A.L. Gonçalves, J.R.T. Montesanti,A.B.R. Cardoso, and K. Minami, Petrobras, prepared for the 2004 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, 3–6 May.
Expandable Reservoir Completion: The Case for Openhole Completions
This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper OTC 16714, “Towards the Expandable Reservoir Completion: The Case for Openhole Completions,” by Nicholas Gee, SPE, Colin Jones,SPE, and Stuart Ferguson, SPE, Weatherford Intl. Ltd., prepared for the 2004 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, 3–6 May.
Underbalance-Pressure Criteria for Perforating Carbonates
This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper SPE 86542, "Underbalance- Pressure Criteria for Perforating Carbonates,” by S.T. Subiaur, Pemex, and C.A. Graham, I.C. Walton, SPE, and D.C. Atwood, SPE, Schlumberger, prepared for the 2004 SPE International Symposium and Exhibition on Formation Damage Control, Lafayette, Louisiana, 18–20 February.
Reservoir Performance and Monitoring
Klaus Potsch, SPE, Team Leader, Reservoir Engineering Group, OMV E&P Laboratory
Rock-Mechanics Aspects of Well Productivity in Marginal Sandstone Reservoirs
This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper SPE 86468, “Rock-Mechanics Aspects of Well Productivity in Marginal Sandstone Reservoirs: Problems, Analysis Methods, and Remedial Actions,” by Johan Tronvoll, SPE, Idar Larsen, Liming Li, SPE, Tore Skjetne, SPE, and Øyvind Gustavsen, SINTEF Petroleum Research, prepared for the 2004 SPE International Symposium and Exhibition on Formation Damage Control, Lafayette, Louisiana, 18–20 February.
Heavy-Oil Solution-Gas Drive for Hamaca Field: Depletion Studies and Interpretations
This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper SPE 86967, “A Study of Heavy-Oil Solution-Gas Drive for Hamaca Field: Depletion Studies and Interpretations,” by Cengiz Satik, SPE, ChevronTexaco; Carlon Robertson, SPE, Petrolera Ameriven; Bayram Kalpakci, SPE, Technip Offshore Inc.; and Deepak Gupta, SPE, Westport Technology Center, prepared for the 2004 SPE International Thermal Operations and Heavy Oil Symposium and Western Regional Meeting, Bakersfield, California, 16–18 March.
Integrated Reservoir Study of Shushufindi Field—Dynamic Modeling
This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper SPE 89465, “Integrated Reservoir Study of the Shushufindi Field—Dynamic Modeling,” by Henry A. Ohen, SPE, Adel Erian, SPE, Liaqat Ali, SPE, and Daniel Guzman, SPE, Integrated Reservoir Solutions, Core Laboratories, and Olga Guerrero, José Ochoa, and Luis Valdivieso, Petroproducción, Ecuador, prepared for the 2004 SPE/DOE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, Tulsa, 17–21 April.
Wellbore Stability and Sand Control
Harvey E. Goodman, Senior Staff Research Scientist, ChevronTexaco’s Energy Technology Co.
Oriented Perforations as a Sand-Control Method
This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper SPE 86470, “The Effect of Oriented Perforations as a Sand-Control Method: A Field Case Study From the Varg Field, North Sea,” by Johan Tronvoll, SPE, SINTEF Petroleum Research; Arne Eek, SPE, Pertra A/S; Idar Larsen, SPE, SINTEF Petroleum Research; and Francesco Sanfilippo, SPE, Oilfield Geomechanics Intl., prepared for the 2004 SPE International Symposium and Exhibition on Formation Damage Control, Lafayette, Louisiana, 18–20 February.
Novel Perforating System Results in Improved Perforation for Sand Management
This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper SPE 86540, “Novel Perforating System Used in North Sea Results in Improved Perforation for Sand-Management Strategy,” by Eivind Hillestad, SPE, and Paal Skillingstad, Statoil, and Kent Folse, SPE, Oyvind Hjorteland, SPE, and Janne Hauge, SPE, Halliburton Energy Services Inc., prepared for the 2004 SPE International Symposium and Exhibition on Formation Damage Control, Lafayette, Louisiana, 18–20 February.
Wellbore Stability in the Compacting and Subsiding Valhall Field
This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper SPE 87221, “Drilling Wellbore Stability in the Compacting and Subsiding Valhall Field,” by T.G. Kristiansen, SPE, BP plc, prepared for the 2004 IADC/SPE Drilling Conference, Dallas, 2–4 March.
