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SPECIAL FEATURES

Guest Editorial ·Private Equity, Energy, and Resources: How the Leopard Has Changed its Spots

Peter N. Gray, Managing Director and Head of Energy and Natural Resources for KPMG Corporate Finance, discusses the changing nature of private equity interest in the energy sector.

Q&A

An interview with Shri Niladri Kumar Mitra, director, Offshore, of India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and chairperson of the Technical Program Committee of the 2008 SPE Indian Oil & Gas Technical Conference & Exhibition in Mumbai.

Management · E&P Production Information Management: A Tale of Two Types of Data Integration

Manas Pattanai and Ashutosh Ashish of Deloitte Global Oil and Gas Consulting give an overview of two types of data integration needed to manage production data in an E&P organization: event-based transactional integration and bulk data integration.

IPTC Conference

Coverage of the second International Petroleum Technology conference, held in December in Dubai.

Distinguished Author Series: Coalbed- and Shale-Gas Reservoirs

Improving our understanding of the complexities of coalbed- and shale-gas reservoirs will improve drilling, completion, and production technologies for developing more of these vast reservoirs.

Drilling Technology

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Stéphane Menand, SPE, research engineer, École des Mines de Paris

Changes Needed To Modernize Torque-and-Drag Software

This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper SPE 104609, “Step Changes Needed To Modernize T&D Software,” by C.J. Mason, SPE, BP Exploration, and D. C.-K. Chen, SPE, Halliburton Sperry Services, prepared for the 2007 SPE/IADC Drilling Conference, Amsterdam, 20–22 February.

Drillstring Technology for World-Class Extended-Reach Drilling

This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper OTC 18512, “Drillstring Technology Vanguard for World-Class Extended-Reach Drilling,” by M.J. Jellison, SPE, and R.B. Chandler, SPE, Grant Prideco; M.L. Payne, SPE, BP; and J.S. Shepard, SPE, GlobalSantaFe, prepared for the 2007 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, 30 April–3 May.

Compensation of Surge and Swab Pressures in Floating Drilling Operations

This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper SPE 108346, “Evaluation of MPD Methods for Compensation of Surge and Swab Pressures in Floating Drilling Operations,” by Olve Sunde Rasmussen, SPE, and Sigbjørn Sangesland, SPE, Norwegian U. of Science and Technology, prepared for the 2007 IADC/SPE Managed Pressure Drilling and Underbalanced Operations Conference and Exhibition, Galveston, Texas, 28–29 March.

Determination of Cuttings Lag in Horizontal and Deviated Wells

This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper SPE 109630, “Determination of Cuttings Lag in Horizontal and Deviated Wells,” by Augusto Garcia-Hernandez, SPE, Stefan Z. Miska, SPE, Mengjiao Yu, SPE, and Nicholas E. Takach, SPE, U. of Tulsa, and Claudia Zettner, SPE, ExxonMobil, prepared for the 2007 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Anaheim, California, 11–14 November.

Offshore Facilities: Construction and Design

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Claude Valenchon, SPE, Manager, Technology Development, Saipem

Erha Floating Production, Storage, and Offloading Vessel

This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper OTC 18659, “Erha and Erha North Development: Erha Floating Production, Storage, and Offloading Vessel,” by S.M. Day and G.J. Parker, ExxonMobil, and P. Barclay and H. Boulais, Saipem, prepared for the 2007 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, 30 April–3 May.

Alternative Approach to Wellhead Flowline-Pressure Protection

This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper OTC 18613, “An Alternative Approach to Wellhead Flowline-Pressure Protection,” by Angela E. Summers and Bryan Zachary, SIS-Tech Solutions, prepared for the 2007 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, 30 April–3 May.

Deepwater-Riser-VIV Assessment Using Time-Domain Simulation

This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper OTC 18769, “Deepwater-Riser-VIV Assessment Using a Time-Domain-Simulation Approach,” by Kevin Huang, Hamn-Ching Chen, and Chia-Rong Chen, Texas A&M University, prepared for the 2007 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, 30 April–3 May.

Well Testing

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Jay Stratton, SPE, Vice President Operations, Golden Energy

Wireline Pressure Measurements Improve Reservoir Characterization in Tight Gas Formation

This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper SPE 109565, “A Case Study: Using Wireline Pressure Measurements To Improve Reservoir Characterization in Tight-Formation Gas—Wamsutter Field, Wyoming,” by R.A. Schrooten, SPE, BP America; E.C. Boratko, SPE, H. Singh, SPE, and D.L. Hallford, SPE, Schlumberger; and J. McKay, BP America, prepared for the 2007 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Anaheim, California, 11–14 November.

Integrating Pressure-Transient-Test Data With Seismic-Attribute Analysis To Characterize an Offshore Fluvial Reservoir

This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper SPE 110272, “Integrating Pressure-Transient-Test Data With Seismic-Attribute Analysis To Characterize an Offshore Fluvial Reservoir,” by Akshay Sahni, SPE, Ken Kelsch, SPE, Hathaiporn Samorn, and Chalatpon Boonmeelapprasert, SPE, Chevron, prepared for the 2007 SPE Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition, Jakarta, 30 October–1 November.

HP/HT Gas-Condensate Well Testing for the Shell Onyx SW Prospect

This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper SPE 108665, “HP/HT Gas-Condensate Well Testing for Shell’s Onyx SW Prospect,” by Arild Fosså, Expro; Derek MacKenzie, SPE, Norske Shell; Odd Steinveg and Eric Henderson, Expro; and Bart van den Bosch, SPE, Halliburton/Shell, prepared for the 2007 Offshore Europe, Aberdeen, 4–7 September.