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Special Features

Guest Editorial • Reservoir Monitoring Using Surface Deformation Measurements

Norm Warpinski, Chief Technology Officer of Pinnacle Technologies, discusses the latest trends in reservoir monitoring and what technological developments are on the horizon.

Q&A

An interview with John C. Calhoun Jr., Deputy Chancellor for Engineering, Emeritus, at Texas A&M University and a longtime SPE member.

Management • The High-Tech World of Testing

Testing will play an increasing role in solving the industry’s long-term production challenges, writes Mario Ruscev, President of Testing Services for Schlumberger. But the solution will require a coordinated industrywide effort to provide opportunities in which new technology and techniques can be evaluated.

Coverage of SPE President’s Summit on Talent and Technology

An SPE summit brought together 75 executives and senior leaders in the oil and gas industry to explore two of the most critical issues facing the industry today—the shortage of technical talent and climate change.

ATCE Preview

Highlights of SPE’s 2007 Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, to be held 11–14 November in Anaheim, California.

IPTC Preview

A preview of SPE’s second International Petroleum Technology Conference, which will take place 4–6 December in Dubai.

Distinguished Author Series • Geologic CO2 Storage—Can the Oil and Gas Industry Help Save the Planet?

The E&P industry is in a position to enable geologic-formation storage of CO2 collected from emissions. But this task will require large-scale implementation of several technologies as well as training many engineers and geoscientists.

Completions Today

Overview

Damir Horvat, SPE, Drilling Engineering Manager, Arrow Energy

Intelligent-Completion Technology in a Triple-Zone Commingled Producer

One-Trip Completion System Eliminates Perforations

Laboratory Perforating Tests in Coal Results in Lower-Than-Expected Penetration

Long-Term Zonal Isolation for Onshore Gas Wells by Use of a Monobore Cemented Completion

Reservoir Performance and Monitoring

Overview

Torsten Clemens, SPE, Senior Reservoir Engineer, OMV

Real-Time Fiber-Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing: Oilfield Applications

4D Microgravity Surveillance of a Waterflood—Prudhoe Bay, Alaska

Identifying Condensate Banking With Multiphase Flowmeters—A Case Study

Wellbore Integrity, Sand Management, and Frac Pack

Overview

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

High-Collapse, Cost-Effective Solid-Expandable-Monobore Systems Mitigate Subsalt Rubble Zones

Practical Approach To Achieve Accuracy in Sanding Prediction

New Opportunities for Time-Sensitive Gulf of Mexico Completions

Field Development Projects

Overview

J.C. Cunha, SPE, Senior Technical Consultant, Petrobras America

Espirito Santo: The New Deepwater Frontier in Brazil

Akpo: A Giant Deep Offshore Development

Development-Well and Execution Planning in a Complex Subsurface Environment—The Effect of Large- and Small-Scale Modeling on Well Deliverability

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Abdul-Jaleel Al-Khalifa

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