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The design of a deep-draft semisubmersible for Gulf of Mexico production operations. (Image courtesy of Aker Kvaerner.)

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Special Features

Guest Editorial • What Big Oil Can Learn From Big Blue

Robert K. Perrons of Shell E&P examines what the oil and gas industry could learn from other international business sectors.

Q&A

In a continuing series of interviews helping to mark SPE’s 50th anniversary, JPT talks to Lyn Arscott, consultant and former SPE President, who was instrumental in raising the profile of health, safety, and environmental issues in the society and in the oil and gas industry.

New Reserves Evaluation System

SPE’s Board of Directors has approved a new Petroleum Resources Management System, ending two years of intense collaboration by SPE, the World Petroleum Council, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers. The new system consolidates, builds on, and replaces guidance previously contained in the 1997 hydrocarbons reserves definitions, the 2000 resources classification, and the 2001 guidelines for reserves/resources evaluation.

Gulf of Mexico Technology Advances

New technology is enabling an increasing string of exploration and development successes in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Breakthrough seismic acquisition techniques for subsalt imaging and key innovations in drilling, completions, and facilities design are driving field developments in 8,000-ft waters and preparing the industry to push onward to 10,000 ft.

Discussion and Reply

Readers respond to a Guest Editorial on peak oil.

Deepwater Exploration and Production

Overview

John Barnes, SPE, Project Director, AMEC Paragon

Ormen Lange Langeled Development

Challenges of Waterflooding in a Deepwater Environment

Application of the All-Electric Subsea Production System

Erha and Erha North Development

Reservoir Simulation and Visualization

Overview

Tom Smart, SPE, Chief Technical Adviser, Landmark Graphics Corporation/Halliburton

Assisted History Matching for Surface-Coupled Gas-Reservoir Simulation

Global Optimization and Uncertainty Assessment for History Matching the Valhall Field

Improved and More-Rapid History Matching With a Nonlinear Proxy and Global Optimization

Coiled Tubing Applications

Overview

Curtis G. Blount, SPE, Engineering Fellow, ConocoPhillips

Drilling for Coalbed Methane in the San Juan Basin With Coiled Tubing

Vibration and Rotation To Extend Coiled-Tubing Reach

Sour-Well Serviceability of Higher-Strength Coiled Tubing

Departments

Performance Indices

Regional Update

Company News

Petroleum Industry 2020

Abdul-Jaleel Al-Khalifa

Comments

John Donnelly

Technology Applications

Technology Update

techbits

Meetings

People

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