October 2008
Volume 60 Number 10
Features
Guest Editorial • The Digital Petroleum Engineer: Carpe diem!
In the future, “digital” petroleum engineers will be as visible in every company as project managers are today, writes Mehrzad Mahdavi, Vice President of Enterprise Security Services for Schlumberger and founder of SPE’s Information Technology Technical Section. But to achieve that, the industry must chart the course now.
International Petroleum Technology Conference Preview
A preview of the third International Petroleum Technology Conference, to be held in December in Kuala Lumpur.
Management • Achieving Global Acceptance of and Compliance With a Universal Set of Petroleum Resources and Reserves Definitions—Are We There Yet?
D. Ronald Harrell offers an update on SPE’s and other sponsoring organizations’ efforts to promote a universal set of petroleum resources and reserves definitions.
SPE Technical Editor Awards
SPE recognizes technical editors who have made an exceptional effort to ensure the technical excellence of the Society’s journals. For their contributions, the listed Editorial Review Committee members received the Outstanding Technical Editor Award.
SPE Regional Award Winners
The SPE Regional Awards program recognizes regional achievements in six technical disciplines. Regional awards recognize excellence and contributions made at the Society’s regional level.
Field Development Projects
J.C. Cunha, SPE, Senior Technical Consultant, Petrobras America
Probabilistic Field Development in the Presence of Uncertainty
This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper IPTC 11294, “Probabilistic Field Development in Presence of Uncertainty,” by Sara Passone, SPE, BP plc, and Gregory J. McRae, SPE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, prepared for the 2007 International Petroleum Technology Conference, Dubai, 4–6 December. The paper has not been peer reviewed.
Roncador Field Development: Reservoir Aspects and Well-Development Strategy
This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper OTC 19296, “Roncador Field Development: Reservoir Aspects and Well-Development Strategy,” by L. Cysne and M.K. Mihaguti, Petrobras, prepared for the 2008 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, 5–8 May. The paper has not been peer reviewed.
Troll West Oil Field—A Giant Gas Field Becomes the Largest Oil Field on the Norwegian Continental Shelf
This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper SPE 112616, “Troll West Oilfield Development—How a Giant Gas Field Became the Largest Oil Field in the NCS Through Innovative Field and Technology Development,” by Richard Dyve Jones, StatoilHydro, and Erland Saeverhagen, SPE, Arve K. Thorsen, SPE, and Sveinung Gard, SPE, Inteq, prepared for the 2008 IADC/SPE Drilling Conference, Orlando, Florida, 4–6 March. The paper has not been peer reviewed.
Offshore Atlantic Canada—Regional Overview
This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper OTC 19273, “The Offshore Petroleum Industry in Atlantic Canada—A Regional Overview,” by R.P. Barnes, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, prepared for the 2008 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, 5–8 May. The paper has not
been peer reviewed.
Tight Reservoirs
Gregory Kubala, SPE, Chemistry Métier Manager, Schlumberger Engineering, Manufacturing, and Sustaining
Rock Typing—Understanding Productivity in Tight Gas Sands
This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper SPE 114164, “Rock Typing—Keys to Understanding Productivity in Tight Gas Sands,” by J.A. Rushing, SPE, Anadarko Petroleum, K.E. Newsham, SPE, Apache, and T.A. Blasingame, SPE, Texas A&M University, prepared for the 2008 SPE Unconventional Reservoirs Conference, Keystone, Colorado, 10–12 February. The paper has not been peer reviewed.
Integrated Development of the Changbei Tight-Gas Project
This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper IPTC 11408, “Integrated Development of Changbei Tight Gas Project,” by Guilin Luan, SPE, Lin Li, Gary Nettleship, SPE, Luc Van Son, and Taco Hoekstra, Shell China E&P; Robert Deutman and Sieward Veeman, Sarawak Shell Bhd.; and Hua Wang, PetroChina ChangQing Oilfield Co., originally prepared for the 2007 International Petroleum Technology Conference, Dubai, UAE, 4–6 December. The paper has not been peer reviewed.
Horizontal Wells in Tight Gas Sands: Risk Management To Maximize Success
This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper SPE 110067, “Horizontal Wells in Tight Gas Sands—A Methodology For Risk Management To Maximize Success,” by Jason Baihly, SPE, Dee Grant, SPE, Li Fan, SPE, and Suhas Bodwadkar, SPE, Schlumberger, originally prepared for the 2007 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Anaheim, California, 11–14 October. The paper has not been peer reviewed.
Knowledge Management and Training
Ivor Ellul, SPE, President, Knowledge Reservoir
Remote Collaboration Models for Oil and Gas—A Comparison of Assetand Hub-Based Models
This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper SPE 112136, “Remote Collaboration Models for Oil and Gas—A Comparison of Asset- and Hub-Based Models,” by Adrian Chapman, Spencer Roberts, and Jonathan Krome, SPE, IBM Global Business Services, originally prepared for the 2008 SPE Intelligent Energy Conference and Exhibition, Amsterdam, 25–27 February. The paper has not been peer reviewed.
Transforming Production Data Into Knowledge
This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper SPE 112517, “Transforming E&P Data Into Knowledge: Applications of an Integration Strategy,” by Jean-Paul Couput, Alain Louis, SPE, and Jacques Danquigny, SPE, Total S.A., originally prepared for the 2008 SPE Intelligent Energy Conference and Exhibition, Amsterdam, 25–27 February. The paper has not been peer reviewed.
Semantic Web Technologies for Smart-Oilfield Applications
This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper SPE 112267, “Semantic Web Technologies for Smart Oil Field Applications,” by Ramakrishna Soma, Amol Bakshi, and Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, and Will DaSie, SPE, and Birlie Bourgeois, Chevron Corporation, originally prepared for the 2008 SPE Intelligent Energy Conference and Exhibition, Amsterdam, 25–27 February. The paper has not been peer reviewed.
