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A BJ Services frac technician monitors the flow of white Ottawa sand into the blender hopper during a hydraulic fracturing treatment in the northeast United States.

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Special Features

Guest Editorial • Industry Must Showcase Its Strengths, Support Universities

Ali Daneshy, Director of Petroleum Engineering at the U. of Houston and Executive Vice President, Engineering and Operations, for Tecton Energy, LLC, examines the demographic hurdles confronting the oil and gas industry and offers a few ideas for scaling them.

Q&A

John Darley, Executive Vice President, E&P Technology, for Shell Exploration and Production and Chairperson of the 2006 SPE Intelligent Energy conference, comments on how successful the ­industry has been in adapting digital-age technologies to the oil field.

OTC Preview

Highlights of the upcoming Offshore Technology Conference in Houston.  

Intelligent Energy Technology Preview

A first look at some of the best papers that will be presented at SPE’s first Intelligent Energy conference in Amsterdam.

Management • Uncertainty and Volatility in Today’s Energy System: Stability, Security, and Sustainability Through Mutual Interdependence

Ivo Bozon, a director with McKinsey & Co., discusses how obstacles to investment, bottlenecks in the refining system, and talent constraints are driving oil-price instability.

Hydraulic Fracturing

Overview

Simon Chipperfield, SPE, Staff Reservoir Engineer, Santos Ltd.

Geology and Geometry: A Review of Factors Affecting Hydraulic-Fracture Effectiveness

Modeling Hydraulic Fractures in Unconsolidated Sands

Fracturing for Sand Control: Screenless Completions in the Yegua Formation

Non-Darcy Flow in Hydraulic Fractures

Production Operations

Overview

Bob Poe, Engineering Advisor,Schlumberger Data and Consulting Services

Integrating Advanced Production and Image Logging in a High-GOR Horizontal Well

Modeling the Gas-Well Liquid-Loading Process

Multidimensional Velocity-Based Model of Formation Permeability Damage

HP/HT Challenges

Overview

Robert MacAndrew, SPE, Director, Aberdeen Drilling Management Ltd.

Scale Cause in the Smorbukk Field

Gulf of Mexico Deep Ultra-HP/HT Completions—Current Technology Gaps

Physical and Rheological Behavior of HP/HT Fluids in the Presence of Water

Departments

Performance Indices

Regional Update

Stand Tall and Speak Up

Eve S. Sprunt

Comments

John Donnelly

Technology Applications

Technology Update

techbits

Meetings

People

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