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Schlumberger's Quicksilver Probe technology separates contamination from formation fluid early in the sampling process, resulting in cleaner fluid samples that can be acquired quickly

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Special Features

SPE Presidential Interview

2007 SPE President Abdul-Jaleel Al-Khalifa discusses his outlook and his goals for the Society and the oil and gas industry.

Q&A

An interview with Clarence P. Cazalot Jr., President and CEO, Marathon Oil Corp.

Guest Editorial • The Challenge of Locating Maximum Bypassed Pay

Allen Howard, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NuTech Energy Alliance, examines how advancements outside the industry have improved the oil industry's ability to get more oil out of the ground.

ATCE Technology Preview

Six papers to be presented at the 2006 Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) reveal the industry outlook in key technology areas, including well-integrity operations at Prudhoe Bay, CO₂ storage as it relates to inventory verification/carbon-credit trading, lessons in megaproject execution, type curves for estimating hydrocarbon saturation, measurement of dynamic solids-settling rates, and the case for steerable motors.

Special Feature—Moving from Fringe to Mainstream

The aurora Borealis and boreal forests are not the only unusual aspects of northwestern Canada. This land so rich in natural beauty is also graced with a not particularly beautiful treasure—heavy oil. This tarlike substance is being marketed as 19 new types of crude streams and represents huge potential for the worldwide oil industry.

Management • Building the High Performance E&P Company

Companies in other industries have delivered consistent competitive advantage by examining their business processes and then using technology to "invent new ways of doing work," writes Deborah Close, Executive Vice President with Digital Oilfield. Can upstream companies do the same?

Distinguished Author Series • Rock/Fluid Characterization and Their Integration— Implications on Reservoir Management

This paper highlights the rock- and fluid-data needs for various production processes with an emphasis on quality control and efficient data management.

China Conference Preview

Technology transfer, offshore developments in China and around the world, and critical upstream issues will highlight the International Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition in China that will be held 5-7 December in Beijing.

Completions Today

Overview

Damir Horvat, SPE, Principal Drilling and Completions Engineer, Arrow Energy N.L.

Well-Completion Effects on the Performance of Horizontal and Multilateral Wells

Next-Generation Expandable-Completion Systems

Dynamic Modeling of Invasion Damage and Its Effect on Production in Horizontal Wells

Physics-Based Well Design - Engineering the Well for Production

Reservoir Performance and Monitoring

Overview

Torsten Clemens, SPE, Senior Reservoir Engineer, OMV

Quantifying Uncertainty in Production Forecast for Fields With Significant History

Monitoring Primary-Depletion Reservoirs With Seismic Amplitudes and Time Shifts

Iterative Coupling Between Geomechanical Deformation and Reservoir Flow

Wellbore Integrity, Sand Management and Frac Pack

Overview

Harvey E. Goodman, SPE, Staff Research Consultant, Chevron Energy Technology Co.

Sand Production in the Statfjord Field

High-Accuracy Oriented Perforating Extends Sand-Free Production Life of Andrew Field

Gravel Packing Long Horizontal Wells With Low Fracture Gradients

Departments

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John Donnelly, JPT Editor

Technology Applications

Dennis Denney, JPT Technology Editor

Technology Update

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