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Weatherford's cased-hole wireline team on location in the Comodoro Rivadavia region of Argentina.

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Special Features

Guest Editorial • The State of the Units or the Units of the States

Klaus Potsch, Team Leader with OMV, argues that it is high time the oil and gas industry adopted one system of measurement units.

Q&A

A conversation with Jacques Bosio, SPE’s first non-US president.

OTC Review

Coverage of the 2007 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, which attracted a 25-year high in attendance.

Offshore Europe Preview

A first glance at the program for Offshore Europe, the largest exploration and production event outside of North America

Management • Use of Real-Time Operations Growing Upstream

Sanjaya Sood, Vice President Global Real Time for Schlumberger, surveys how operators have adopted the use of real-time technology to increase efficiency.

Distinguished Author Series • Permeability From Production Logs—Method and Application

Excess permeability from vuggy or fractured reservoirs may control reservoir flow paths. A method was developed for the Tengiz field in western Kazakhstan to calculate apparent permeability on the basis of flow rate from production-logging tools for use in the reservoir model.

Legion of Honor

SPE welcomes 213 members to the 2007 Legion of Honor, celebrating 50 years of consecutive membership in the Society.

Well Stimulation

Overview

Charles Hager, SPE, Senior Consultant, NSI Technologies

A Small-Scale Fracture-Conductivity Study

Rock-Mechanics Considerations in Fracturing a Carbonate Formation

A New Method for Acid Stimulation Without Increasing Water Production

Horizontal-Openhole Gravel-Packing Operations in the Campos Basin

Multilateral/Extended Reach

Overview

Colin Mason, SPE, Senior Drilling Engineering Specialist, BP

Assuring Stability in Extended-Reach Wells: Analyses, Practices, and Mitigations

Extended Reach: New-Generation Frontier Drilling Rigs

How Much of Your Centralizer Is Left After Exiting a Casing Window in an Extended-Reach Horizontal Multilateral?

Health, Safety, and Environment

Overview

John Veil, SPE, Manager, Argonne National Laboratory

Independent Remote Monitoring System for Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Floating Production Systems

Innovative Chemical and Mechanical Processing for Treatment of Difficult Production-Waste Sludge

Evaluation of the Potential for Gas and CO2 Leakage Along Wellbores

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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