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Heavy oil samples are heated and restored to real-world reservoir conditions before being analyzed in the Schlumberger Reservoir Fluids Center in Edmonton, Canada

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Special Features

Guest Editorial • Marine Personnel Transfer Requires Industry Attention

Roger Catherall, Director and cofounder of ReflexMarine Ltd., calls on the oil and gas industry to reduce the risks associated with crane transfers, cut the number of incidents that occur, and increase the safety of personnel offshore. The first step is better recordkeeping.

Q&A with Peter Seifert

An interview with Peter Seifert, General Manager of Central/East Europe and Russia for OMV and Chairperson of the upcoming EAGE/SPE Europec Conference and Exhibition.

Technology Tomorrow

In the third installment in this yearlong series, Richard Pike, CEO of the Royal Society of Chemistry, calls on scientists and engineers from a wide range of disciplines worldwide to collaborate to ensure that carbon capture and storage technologies are developed as soon as possible.

Management • It's Time for an Industry Initiative on Heavy Oil

Ashok Belani, Chief Technology Officer for Schlumberger, believes the growing importance of heavy oil in the world's energy mix requires an industry forum to determine the critical areas for research and technology development.

Distinguished Author Series • Tight Gas Sands

The technology needed to evaluate, develop, and produce tight gas reservoirs has been under development for more than 40 years. The next 40 years will see worldwide development of those reservoirs.

Legion of Honor

This year's inductees into SPE's Legion of Honor, marking 50 consecutive years of membership in the Society.

Deepwater Exploration and Production

Overview

John Barnes, Project Director, AMEC Paragon Inc.

Design One, Build Two - FPSO Experience in Deepwater West Africa

Flow-Assurance Lessons: The Mica Tieback

Challenges in Heavy Crude Oil - Grane, an Overview

Deepwater, Subsalt Drilling From Nova Scotia, Canada - Case Study

Reservoir Simulation and Visualization

Overview

Tom Smart, SPE, Vice President, Ancell Energy Consulting Inc.

A Multimodal Reservoir-Simulation Environment

Optimal Coarsening of 3D Reservoir Models for Flow Simulation

Treating Uncertainties in Reservoir-Performance Prediction With Neural Networks

Coiled Tubing Applications

Overview

Curtis G. Blount, SPE, Well Supervisor/Adviser, ConocoPhillips Alaska

Eliminating Human Error During Coiled-Tubing Operations

Characterization of Defects in Coiled Tubing From Magnetic-Flux-Leakage Data

Coiled-Tubing Operations in the Panna Field Offshore Western India

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Stand Tall and Speak Up

Eve Sprunt

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John Donnelly

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