November 2008
On this month's cover: The American Directional Drill prototype VR-330 on location in Louisville, Ohio is a vertical oil and gas drilling rig, which utilises a rack and pinion top head drive that creates up to 150 t of push and pull. The American Directional Drill vertical rigs have the ability to drill a true vertical or horizontal well up to 4572 m in total length. The VR-330 will be replaced by the new VR-500, which will have its first manufacturing release during winter this year.
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Contents
Editorial Comment
Editorial Comment
World News
World News
At The Heart Of Asia
Ng Weng Hoong, Oilfield Technology Correspondent, takes an in-depth look at how the world economy is impacting the oil industry throughout Asia
Top Of The Risk Tables
James Maxwell and Eddie McLaughlin, Marsh, UK, discuss key risks for national oil companies
Under Pressure
Joanne Wang and Duane Dopkin, Paradigm B.V, The Netherlands, explore visualisation in seismic driven pore pressure prediction
Odd One Out
Paul de Groot and Arnaud Huck, dGB Earth Sciences, The Netherlands, Friso Brouwer, dGB Earth Sciences, USA and Andries Wever, Wintershall Noordzee BV, The Netherlands, comment on how to visualise hydrocarbon indicators
Making Advances
Dave Moffat and Jeff Cunkelman, ION Marine Imaging Systems, USA, give an overview of ION and Furgo-Geoteam’s advanced marine streamer acquisition
Dealing With Digital Change
Philip Shaw, Deloitte, UK, explains how to effectively implement the digital oilfield
A Real Asset
Duncan Junor, Halliburton, USA, presents a real time collaborative environment to model, measure and optimise the asset
The Smart Choice
Kemal Farid, Merrick Systems, USA, describes workflow management tools that enable digital oilfield surveillance and optimisation processes
The Road To Recovery
Gordon Cope, Oilfield Technology Correspondent, asks the question: are the days of conventional oil numbered?
CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery: Part 1
Barry M. Friedman, Johnny E. Johnson, Richard J. Wissbaum, and Lindsay Auble, Washington Division-URS, USA, look at improving oil recovery by CO2 flood
Within Reach
Brian Schwanitz and Kristine Henriques, Welltec, Poland, highlight cost effective interventions that allow access to more recoverable reserves in highly deviated, extended reach wells
Helping Orinoco Flow
Steven Fipke, Halliburton, USA and Adriano Celli, ConocoPhillips, USA, comment on the use of multilateral well designs for improved recovery in heavy oil reservoirs
Taking The Wheel
Steve Barton and John Clegg, NOV ReedHycalog, USA, Ali Garkasi, Aramco, Saudi Arabia, Chris Chia, Schlumberger, USA and Dominic Carrington, NOV ReedHycalog, Saudi Arabia, look at how stable bit concepts significantly improve rotary steerable system performance in challenging horizontal intervals
A New Breed Of Drilling Rig
Rob Foster, American Augers, USA, discusses the future of drilling rigs
The Heavyweight Brine Challenge: Cesium Formate Or Zinc Bromide?
Ylva Gilbert, Gaia Consulting, Finland and John Downs, Cabot Specialty Fluids, UK, introduce a tool for selecting the most cost effective heavy completion and workover brine for HPHT wells
Supporting The South China Sea
Robert Schlemmer, Scomi Oiltools, GRTC, Malaysia, gives an overview of how to minimise fluid losses and reduce drilling costs in the South China Sea
The Key To Deepwater Success
Steve Salman, VetcoGray, Nigeria, presents a subsea control system as the key to the Bonga deepwater success
Fruitful Markets
Bill Donaldson, TSMarine, UK, gives an overview of how rigless and subsea intervention became a fruitful market
Stuck In The Mud?
Andy Hinton, AGR Drilling Services, Norway, looks at subsea pumps for safer, cheaper tophole drilling
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