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Shell uses the Pinedale Anticline in western Wyoming to test and develop new technologies to increase recovery in tight gas reservoirs. Here, a field hand checks tanks at the Mesa well on Pinedale Anticline CD247.

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Part 1

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Departments

• Performance Indices (6)
• Regional Update (8)
• Company News (10)
• Comments: John Donnelly (20)
• Technology Applications (26)
• Technology Update (30)

Special Features  

Presidential Interview

2008 SPE  President William Cobb outlines the goals for his term and assesses the future of SPE and the oil and gas industry (12)

Guest Editorial: SPE Meetings Provide Value at Affordable Price

SPE  Executive Director Mark Rubin discusses the costs-and the value-of SPE conferences, workshops, and forums (22)

Part 2

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• techbits (34)

Special Features

Management: The Challenge of Lessons Learned:Overcoming the Barriers to Sucessful Application

Don Dressler, president of Enterprise Performance Group Consulting, and consultant Walt Palen outline how management can develop a learning culture that enhances business performance (40)

SPE  Salary Survey

SPE members' base pay has risen more than 8% in the past year, according to the latsest SPE Salary Survey (44)

Offshore Europe Conference

Highlights from the 2007 Offshore Europe conference held in Aberdeen (48)

Technical and Professional Award Winners

The winners of SPE's Annual Technical and Professional Awards, including the Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal, John Franklin Carll Award, Distinguished Service Award, and 15 others (54)

Part 3

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Special Features

Technology Today Series: Critical-Gas-Content Technology Provides Coalbed-Methane-Reservoir Data

A new downhole chemical-sensing tool has been developed for the coalbed-methane industry. It provides the critical desorption pressure of methane gas dissolved in coal-reservoir fluid in the wellbore (108)

Horizontal and Complex-Trajectory Wells

• Overview • Greg Conran, SPE, Drilling Advisor of Drilling and Measurements, Schlumberger (64)
• Chayvo Field, Sakhalin Island, Russia: Identifying a Significant Oil Leg From 3D Seismic and Execution of an Extended-Reach-Drilling Program (65)
• Horizontal-Well Completion and Stimulation Techniques—Review Emphasizing Low-Permeability Carbonates (68)
• Real-Time Image Data Aids Horizontal Drilling in Carbonate Reservoirs Onshore Abu Dhabi (71)
• Haradh-III: Field Development Using Maximum- Reservoir-Contact Wells, Smart-Well Completions, and I-Field Concept (74)

Drilling and Completion Fluids

• Overview • Paul D. Scott, SPE, Principal Engineer–Fluids, ConocoPhillips (78)
• Membrane Efficiency of Shales Interacting With Water-Based and Oil-Based Muds (79)
• Mud Design To Prevent Circulation Losses (82)
• Air Drilling in the Presence of Hydrocarbons: A Time for Pause (86)

Gas Production Technology

• Overview • Scott J. Wilson, SPE, Vice President, Ryder Scott Company LP (88)
• Production and Video Logging in Low-Permeability Horizontal Gas Wells (89)
• Improved Model for the Liquid-Loading Process in Gas Wells (92)
• Integrated Wellbore/Reservoir Model Predicts Flow Transients in Liquid-Loaded Gas Wells (95)

Tight Reservoirs

• Overview • Mike Mayerhofer, SPE, Applied-Diagnostics Engineering Manager, Pinnacle Technologies (98)
• A New Barnett Shale Horizontal Completion Lowers Cost and Improves Efficiency (99)
• Elliptical-Flow-Based Pressure-Transient Interpretation Technique (102)
• Mechanism for Permeability Reduction by Small Water Saturation in Tight Gas Sandstones (105)

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• Meetings (118)
• SPE News (121)
• Employment (125)
• Professional Services (131)
• Advertisers’ Index (138)