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Special Features

Q&A

JPT begins a yearlong series of interviews with Society luminaries in recognition of SPE's 50th anniversary. The series kicks off with Sadad Al-Husseini, a former executive member of the Board of Directors of Saudi Aramco

Technology Tomorrow • Energy: The Next Biotechnology Challenge

In the second-to-last installment in this yearlong series examining R&D needs and potential, Francesca de Ferra, a technical manager at the R&D Center of Eni, explores the challenges of applying biotechnology to the oil and gas sector and hints at the possibility of generically modified organisms to achieve superior results.

Guest Editorial • The Winds of Change: Resource Nationalism Shifts Power to National Oil Companies

No longer are national oil companies just managing state-owned hydrocarbon resources to their nation's long-term benefit; they are expanding internationally in direct competition with private firms. Pete Stark, Vice President at IHS Inc., describes what this shift means to the global energy industry.

Preview of the SPE/IADC Drilling Conference

The annual SPE/IADC event is the industry's top conference devoted to drilling. This year's conference focuses on accessing reserves previously thought unattainable. More than 100 technical presentations will be presented under 16 major topic area. Three plenary sessions, with panelists from Saudi Aramco, Schlumberger, Halliburton, BP, Shell, McKinsey and Company, Ensco, Total, Transocean, and Petrobras, will feature discussions of critical challenges facing the industry.

Section Milestones

Fifteen SPE sections marked milestone anniversaries in 2006 that included one 60-year, one 40-year, and one 25-year anniversary.

Discussion and Reply

A discussion of "Rock Fluid Characterization and Their Integration—Implications on Reservoir Management," a Distinguished Author Series article in the September issue.

Mature Field Revitalization

Overview

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

Intelligent Completions To Optimize Waterflood Process in a Mature North Sea Field

Usari BQI Field Redevelopment

New Oil Recovery From an Old Field: A Case Study in the Western Desert of Egypt

Field Surveillance and Well-Services Management in a Large Mature Onshore Field

EOR/IOR

Overview

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

Reduced Well Spacing Combined With Polymer Flooding Improves Oil Recovery From Marginal Reservoirs

Screening Criteria for Carbon Dioxide Huff 'n' Puff Operations

Predicting Flow Distribution for SAGD Producing Wells By Use of Permanently Installed Fiber Optics

Well Intervention and Control

Overview

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

Analysis of Alternative Well-Control Methods for Dual-Density Deepwater Drilling

Well-Integrity Operations at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska

Well-Intervention Challenges To Service Wells That Can Be Drilled

Departments

Regional Update

Company News

Petroleum Industry 2020

Abdul-Jaleel Al-Khalifa

Comments

John Donnelly

Technology Applications

Technology Update

People

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