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Site of a mature field production project in southern Algeria. Photo by Saad Saeed.

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Special Features

Guest Editorial •  Interpreting Reliability Metrics With Confidence

Jim Renfroe, Executive Vice President, Production Optimization for Halliburton, explains why ensuring reliable performance in all facets of operations is essential to reducing downtime, improving efficiencies, and optimizing production.

Q&A

An interview with Ali Rashid Al-Jarwan of Zakum Development Co. and Tom Theriot of ExxonMobil, Program Committee Chairpersons of SPE's Eighth International Conference on Health, Safety, and the Environment.

Management •  Plugging the Knowledge Gap

John Davidson, a Partner with Facilitators U.K., says the key to companies avoiding critical knowledge loss is a strategic framework that weaves together the ability to learn with the ability to retain key staff and to make knowledge-sharing culture a reality.

Distinguished Author Series • Advances in NMR Logging

A summary of nuclear-magnetic-resonance (NMR) well-logging technology that explains the basic measurement principles and interpretations needed to understand NMR formation-evaluation techniques.

SPE Sections Mark Milestones

Fourteen SPE sections celebrated significant anniversaries in 2005.

2006 IADC/SPE Drilling Conference

A preview of the annual conference that offers the best in drilling and well technology.

2006 Intelligent Energy Conference

SPE's first-ever Intelligent Energy Conference and Exhibition will center on the design and implementation of solutions to optimize the performance of core E&P processes such as drilling, field development, production optimization, and reservoir management.

Mature Field Revitalization

Overview

David Lagerlef, SPE, Kuparuk Offtake Coordinator, ConocoPhillips Inc.

Step Change in Reservoir Simulation Breathes Life Into a Mature Oil Field

Technical and Economic Challenge of Mature Gas Fields: The Giant Altmark Field, Germany

New Oil in an Old Reservoir: Prize From a Comprehensive, Multidisciplinary Reservoir-Management Approach

Old Field - New Life

EOR/IOR

Overview

Malcolm J. Pitts, SPE, Director of Petroleum Technology for Surtek Inc.

Successful Miscible-Gas Injection in Rhourde El Krouf Field, Algeria

MEOR in Northwest Peru

Evaluation of Polymer-Injection Projects in Brazil

Well Intervention and Control

Overview

David Barnett, SPE, Vice President of Engineering for Wild Well Control Inc.

New API Practices for Isolating Potential Flow Zones During Drilling and Cementing Operations

Gate-Valve Milling Operation Performed With Coiled Tubing

Deepwater Well-Control Aspects for Slender-Well Drilling

Departments

Performance Indices

Regional Update

Stand Tall and Speak Up

Eve S. Sprunt, 2006 SPE President, president@spe.org

Comments

John Donnelly, JPT Editor, jdonnelly@spe.org

Technology Applications

Dennis Denney, JPT Technology Editor

Technology Update: Tool Enables Boost in Brownfield Production

techbits

Meetings

People

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