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Producers urged to double oil recovery efficiency worldwide

Nov 12, 2007 Producers should seek to double oil recovery efficiency worldwide and pursue the target through effective use of technology and wise management, says a former head of reservoir management at Saudi Aramco.

SPECIAL REPORT: Sustainability reports address safety, environmental issues

Nov 12, 2007 Environmental stewardship and employee safety ranked high among issues major oil companies addressed in the lengthy, nonfinancial disclosures for 2006 that some companies call sustainability reports and others, corporate social responsibility reports.

GLOBAL OIL RESERVES-1: Recovery factors leave vast target for EOR technologies

Nov 5, 2007 Since 2003 prompt and long-term oil prices have been constantly climbing to levels ($70-90/bbl) that have caught many people by surprise.

SPECIAL REPORT: PDO initiates various enhanced oil recovery approaches

Nov 5, 2007 To sustain long-term oil production from its contract area in Oman, Petroleum Development Oman has turned to diverse methods for enhancing oil recovery from its fields that contain many billions of barrels of oil in place.

POINT OF VIEW: PDO undertakes more complex production, development projects

Nov 5, 2007 During his 5 years as managing director of Petroleum Development Oman, John Malcolm has seen an increase in the complexity of operations for sustaining oil production from the company’s large Block 6 in Oman.

PIPELINE INSPECTION-1: Uncertainty-based assessment substitutes for internal inspection

Nov 5, 2007 Internal inspection of pipelines is not always economic, prompting development of methods for assessing a pipeline’s current condition based on historic operating and process conditions.

SPECIAL REPORT: World’s largest CO2 capture, EOR project planned off Dubai

Nov 5, 2007 Among the projects Dubai Petroleum has under way is a feasibility study for injecting CO2 to extract more oil from mature oil fields.

Task force: US can shrink oil gap with unconventional fuels

Nov 5, 2007 The US government and oil industry must jointly take aggressive action to slow the growth in oil demand and to increase oil supply with help from unconventional sources, reported the Federal Task Force on Strategic Unconventional Fuels in September.

Canadian drilling pace slows

Oct 22, 2007 Fewer wells are being drilled in Canada this year, equivalent to activity 5-6 years ago.

OGJ Newsletter

Oct 22, 2007

COMPANY NEWS: KMG EP to acquire interest in Citic Energy

Oct 15, 2007 JSC KazMunaiGas Exploration Production (KMG EP) will buy a 50% stake in Citic Canada Energy Ltd. for $930 million, which will provide access to the Karazhanbas field in western Kazakhstan.

UNCONVENTIONAL GAS-5: Rising drilling, stimulation costs pressure economics

Oct 15, 2007 The sharp recent rise in well drilling and particularly well stimulation costs has led to the concern that much of the US unconventional gas resource may be becoming uneconomic.

SPECIAL REPORT: Gulf of Mexico King field gets world’s deepest subsea pumps

Oct 8, 2007 In July, BP America Inc. began installing two subsea pump stations to boost production from three wells in King field, Gulf of Mexico.

SPECIAL REPORT: Ultrasonics detect small leaks in Alaska North Slope wells

Oct 8, 2007 A new ultrasonic leak-detection logging tool conveyed on wireline, and recently on slick line in memory mode, can detect leaks as small as 0.0024 gpm.

OGJ Newsletter

Oct 8, 2007
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