OFFSHORE ENGINEER
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Blog com os sumários das obras recebidas pela Biblioteca da Escola de Engenharia da Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF/BEE)
terça-feira, 31 de julho de 2012
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Performance Indices
10 Regional
Update
12 Company
News
14
President’s Column
18 Comments
24
Technology Applications
28 Technology
Update
128
Conference Review
133 People
134 SPE
News
135
Professional Services
139 Advertisers’ Index
140 SPE Events
CONTENTS
20 GUEST
EDITORIAL
DON’T LOOK
TO BIG SHALE PLAYS FOR INNOVATION IN HORIZONTAL MULTISTAGE FRACTURING
The good
news is that there is plenty of innovation to talk about regarding step-change
advances in horizontal multistage fracturing in many of the existing and
emerging resource plays. The bad news is that you will not find these being applied
in the legacy or high-profile shale plays.
36 FIBER
OPTIC SENSING: LEARNING HOW IT REALLY FEBIS DOWNHOLE
Interest is
growing in using fiber optic cable to listen to what is going on inside wells
beyond pressure and temperature measurements. Field tests have been promising,
and the results have drawn the biggest service companies and some tech-savvy
startups with experience in other industries.
44 R&D
GRAND CHALLENGES
HIGHER
RESOLUTION SUBSURFACE IMAGING
An overview
of the challenges of getting higher resolution subsurface images of
hydrocarbons, and emerging research trends and technologies aimed at delivering
a more accurate reservoir picture.
54 TALENT
& TECHNOLOGY
NEW GLOBAL
AWARDS LAUNCHED FOR PETROLEUM ENGINEERING FACULTY
Three new
awards are designed to help reverse a growing shortage of petroleum engineering
facu]ty.
118
DISTINGUISHED AUTHOR SERIES
THE NEXT OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE HYDRAULICFRACTURE STIMULATION
Hydraulic
stimulation has advanced the development of lower permeability resources, but
the corresponding challenges have not been addressed fully. Here s a
perspective on future opportunities for improving recovery of hydrocarbons from
tight reservoirs.
130 OTC PREVIEW
A preview
of the 2012 Offshore Technology Conference.
TECHNOLOGY
FOCUS
58
Hydraulic Fracturing
Karen
Olson, SPE, Completion Expert for Southwestern Energy
59
Fracturing-Fluid Effects on Shale and Proppant Embedment
62 Stimulation
Influence on Production in the Haynesville Shale :
A Playwide
Examination
68 Distributed
Accoustic Sensing for Hydraulic-Fracturing Monitoring and Diagnostics
76 Production
Operations
Francisco J.
S. Alhanati, SPE, Director of Exploration & Production C-FER Technologies
77
Evaluating Production-Log Data From Horizontal Organic-Shale Wells
80 Very-High-Volume
ESP - Lift Systems for Shale-Gas Fracture-Water Supply
84 Factors
Affecting Downhole Scale Deposition : North Dakota
Bakken Formation
90 Heavy Oil
Cam
Matthews, SPE, Director- New Technology Ventures, C-FER Technologies
91 Technology
Development for Solvent-Based Recovery of Heavy Oil
94
Heavy-Oil Well Testing With an ESP, Offshore UK
100 Full
Field Heavy-Oil Conversion From Cold to Hot Production
104 Seismic
Application
Gerd
Kleemeyer, SPE, Shell-Global Solutions Upstream
105
Interpreting Microseismic Measurements : Practical Guide
108 4D
Seismic for Reservoir Management in Carbonates : Does It Work?
114 Forties
Infill Drilling 8 Years Later : Development Driven by 4D Seismic
JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGY V. 64, N. 1, JAN 2012
JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGY
V. 64, N. 1, JAN 2012
6 Performance
Indices
10 Regional
Update
12 Company
News
14 Presidents
Column
16 Comments
22 Technology
Applications
26
Technology Update
98 People
100 SPE
News
102 Professional
Services
107 Advertisers’
Index
108 SPE
Events
CONTENTS
18 GUEST EDITORIAL
Building a
“New Normal” on
the Bedrock of Risk Management
Baker
Hughes’ new CEO Martin Craighead writes about how the oilfield service industry
of the future must be built on the bedrock of effective risk management.
30 The Tantalizing Promise of Oil Shale
As much as
6 trillion bbl of in-place resources of oil shale are estimated to exist
worldwide. With world proved reserves of crude oil estimated at 1.3 trillion
bbl, why does oil shale remain a scarcely touched resource?
38 Reducing the Hidden Costs of Subsea Well
Completions
Subsea completions
tied back to platforms have allowed marginal fields to be put into production,
but maintaining that production long enough to reach the industry average for
recoveries is an unsolved problem. A small group of companies are working to
change that.
48 MANAGEMENT
Trends in
Monitoring: How to Use Real-Time Data Effectively
Real-time
data is not about well control, it is about well control avoidance. Recent
catastrophic blowouts have underscored the value of real-time data and have
also underscored the value of having the right kind of experience to understand
well data interpretation in real time.
54 Unconventionals, Future Challenges Highlight
Annual Conference
Coverage of
the 2011 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in Denver, which
featured presentations on shale and other unconventional reservoirs, long-term
global energy strategy, environmental considerations, remote operations, and
other important regional and discipline-focused topics.
99 2011 Editorial Review Committee Awards
Every year,
SPE recognizes those who have made an exceptional effort to ensure the
technical excellence of its peer-reviewed journals.
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS
60 EOR
PERFORMANCE AND MODELING
Baojun Bai,
SPE, Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering, Missouri University
of Science and Technology
61 Storing
CO2 with next-generation CO2-EOR Technology
64 Steamflooding
to Enhance Recovery of a Waterflooded Light-Oil Reservoir
67 Rheology
of a New Sulfonic Associative Polymer in Porous Media
70 EOR
Potential in Middle East : Current and Future
Trends
74 MATURE FIELDS AND WELL REVITALIZATION
Syed A. Ali, SPE, Research Advisor,
Schlumberger
75 Seria
Field, Brunei
: 80 years on-near-field Exploration Going Strong
78 Doubling
Production From a Mature North Kuwait
Reservoir
82 Marlim
Field : Mature-Field Optimization
84 WELL CONTROL
Jerome Schubert, SPE< Assistant Professor, Texas A&M
University
85
Kick-Tolerance Misconceptions and Consequences for Well Design
89 Kick
Detection and Well Control in a Closed Wellbore
94 Kick
Mechanisms and Well-Control Practices in Deepwater Vugular Carbonate
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V. 63, N. 12, DEC 2011
DEPARTMENTS
6
Performance Indices
8 Regional
Update
10 Company
News
12 Spectrum
16 Comments
John
Donnelly
22
Technology Applications
28
Technology Update
98
Conference Preview
100 People
101 SPE
News
1 03 Professional Services
107 Advertisers Index
108 Meetings
18 Guest Editorial • Imagination, Purpose, and
Vision Behrooz Fcitiahi, Aera Energy
The oil and
gas industry should not to be afraid of today’s daunting challenges, but embrace
them. With participation, and with the shared purpose of dedicating time and talent
to the cause of advancing technology for the common good of our industry, how
can we possibly do less than succeed?
30 R&D Grand Challenges — Can Geoscientists
Resolve the Carbon Capture and Storage Paradox? • Tore A. Torp, Statoil
International
energy and climate organizations have found carbon capture and storage to be a
promising technology to resolve the squeeze between fast-growing global energy
needs and global warming. The next step is to build more CO2 storage injection
pilots.
32 Brazil
Using Offshore Oil Boom to Build
International R&D
Center
In Rio de Janeiro, they are
building an island of energy technology. The island is on the leading edge of Brazil’s drive
to become an international center for the development of oil industry
technology. Fueling the transformation are the billions of barrels of oil found
beneath a thick layer of salt in the deep waters off the Brazilian coast.
40 OTC Brasil 2011 Offers Fresh Perspectives Offshore
During a three-day
conference in early October, speakers at the first OTC Brasil pointed out the
many factors that make the region one of the most difficult offshore
environments in the world in which to operate.
44 West of Shetland Development Gathers
Momentum
BP is
ramping up its West of Shetland operations with government approval to push ahead
with the second phase of its giant Clair field development, Clair Ridge.
48 Mitigating Disaster—A Look at the Ohmsett
Oil Spill Test and Research Facility
The Ohmsett
facility may be little known, but is role is critical to the development of oil
spill prevention and mitigation technology.
88 Distinguished Author Series • The Petrophysics
of Problematic Reservoirs
Departing
from classical methods is required to meet petrophysical challenges of
problematic reservoirs. Rigid adherence to traditional practices must be
avoided.
TECHNOLOGY
FOCUS
52 Reserves/Asset Management
Delores Hinkle, SPE, Director, Corporate Reserves,
Marathon Oil Company
53 Practical
Aspects of Reserves Determinations for Shale-Gas Reservoirs
57 Production
Acceleration or Additional Recovery? A Look Back at Three Published Field
Trials—Long-Term Benefits of Improved Fracture Treatments
60 High-Value Engineering
Center: Implementing a
Major Capital Project — Gorgon
63 Ranking
Production Potential From Key Geological Drivers— Bakken Case Study
66 Production Facilities Hisham Saadawi, SPE,
Vice President (Engineering), Abu Dhabi Company, Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO)
67 Twelve Steps
To Engineering Safe Oil and Gas Facilities
70
Independent Verification of Safety-Critical Elements
74 Performance
Standards for Safely-Critical Elements—Are We Doing Enough?
78 Bit Technology and Bottomhole Assemblies
Martyn Fear, SPE, General Manager, Drilling
& Completions, Husky Energy’s Atlantic Region, Canada
79 Mitigating
Torsional Stick/Slip Vibrations in Oilwell Drilling Through PDC-Bit Design: Putting
Theories to the Test
82 Operator
Recommendation for a Uniform Dull-Groding System for Fixed-Cutler
Hole-Enlargement Tools
84 Drilling
Automation: An Automatic Trajectory-Control System
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DEPARTMENTS
6
Performance Indices
8 Regional
Update
10
CompanyNews
12 Spectrum
16 Comments
John Donnelly
22
Technology Applications
26
Technology Update
28 Techbits
108 People
111 Professional
Services
11 5 Advertisers’
Index
116
Meetings
18 Guest Editorial • How Converging Technology
Trends Will Drive the Next Great Step Change • James Bement, Vice President,
Halliburton Sperry Drilling
To achieve a
significant step change in safety, efficiency, reliability, and performance
while addressing growing demand and reservoir complexity, the oil and gas industry
will have to decide how best to use automation.
32 From Bacteria to Barrels: Microbiology
Having an Impact on Oil Fields
Companies
are using microbes to get more oil from old fields, turn coal into natural gas,
and to manage sour gas problems caused by bacteria. The interest reflects advances
in identifying bacteria and understanding what they do.
40 Interest Grows in Asia
Pacific Offshore Projects
The vast
horizon of the Asia Pacific offshore region, one of the world´s most active
hydrocarbon provinces, will remain a major factor in the global petroleum industry
for decades. Throughout the region, the need for technology innovation is
increasing as the industry faces the challenges of deepwater projects, stranded
gas monetization, drilling and development in bigb-pressure/high-temperature
formations and management of CO2 levels in producing reservoirs.
50 Industry Salaries Continue to Rise
Results of’
the annual salary survey of E&P professionals worldwide show that compensation
in the petroleum industry in 2011 continues to follow the growth trend of
recent years, with an overall increase in average base pay globally of 6,5%.
54 Quantifying the Invisible: Getting a Handle
on Methane’s Climate Impact
Earlier
this year, a Cornell
University professor made
quite a splash publishing o paper asserting that emissions from shale gas
rivaled those from coal. Not so, say three separate recent reports whose issuers
have impeccable credentials.
59 Offshore Europe
Draws Record Attendance
Drawing
record attendance, Offshore Europe 2011 focused on project complexity, innovative
operating models, the evolution of national oil companies, the challenges of
decommissioning, new technology, and the industry’s long-term future.
64 Drilling and Completion Fluids
Brent Estes, SPE, Drilling Fluids Specialist,
Chevron Energy Technology Company
65 Improving
Compatibility of Drilling Fluid, Completion Fluid, and Other Well-Treatment
Fluids for Deepwater Wells
68 Holistic
Drilling-Fluid and Waste Management in the Fayetteville Shale
72 Drilling
With a Balanced-Activity Invert-Emulsion Fluid in Shale: Is It Sufficient for
Maintaining or Enhancing Well bore Stability?
75 Drilling
Highly Depleted Formations With Engineered-Particle Nonaqueous Fluids: South China Sea
78 Horizontal and Complex-Trajectory Wells
Jon Ruszka, SPE, Field Career Development
Manager, Baker Hughes Africa Region
79 Overcoming
Challenges of Drilling High-Dogleg-Severity Curves
84 Successful
Short-Radius Re-Entry Well in Deep-Gas Drilling in Saudi Arabia
88 Shallowest
Horizontal Well Drilled in the Middle East: Challenges
and Successes
94 Gas Production Technology
Scott J. Wilson, SPE, Senior Vice President,
Ryder Scott Company
95 Flow-Assurance
Challenges n Gas-Storage Schemes in Depleted Reservoirs
98 Achieving
Solids-Free Gas-Production Target Rate From Highly-Unconsolidated-Sandstone Formation
Interval
102 Screening
Method To Select Horizontal-Well Refracturing Candidates in Shale-Gas
Reservoirs
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DEPARTMENTS
6 Performance Indices
8 Regional
Update
10 Company
News
12 En Route
Alain
Labastie
16 Comments
John
Donnelly
22
Technology Applications
26
Technobgy Update
30 Techbits
112 People
114 SPE
News
115 Professional
Services
119 Advertisers´
Index
120 Meetings
18 Guest Editorial • Can the Oil and Gas Industry
Live Up to Today’s Dynamics? • Abdul-Jaleel Al-Khalifa, CEO, Dragon Oil
The oil and
gas industry must adopt “people first” policies and abandon the current failing
“profit-only” business model.
32 Management Oil and Gas: Into the Cloud? •
Jill Feblowitz, Vice President, IDC Energy Insights
Will the oil
and gas industry, given its global nature, need for security, and existing
legacy infrastructure, embrace cloud computing?
34 The Five R&D Grand Challenges Plus One
The first
in a series of articles on the great challenges facing the oil and gas industry
as outlined by the SPE R&D Advisory Committee.
36 Digital Rocks Out to Become a Core
Technology
The search to
better understand the inner workings of rocks such as carbonates and shale that
challenge traditional laboratory testing has led to a new approach known as
digital rock physics.
42 Carbon Capture and Storage: A Mixed Review
The state and
progress of carbon capture projects around the globe.
46 Special Section: Offshore Heavy Lift and
Decommissioning
56 Drilling Conference Focuses on Changing
Environments
Best
performance and practices in a rapidly changing technical, regulatory, and economic
environment was the theme of the 2011 SPE/IADC Drilling Conference and
Exhibition.
62 OTC Recognizes Technology Innovation Award
Winners
Fifteen
technologies were selected for this year’s Offshore Technology Conference Spotlight
on New Technology Awards.
106 Distinguished Author Series • Improved Oil
Recovery by Low-Salinity Waterflooding • Norman Morrow and Jill Buckley, University of Wyoming
Low-salinily
waterflooding can mobilize remaining oil in reservoirs producing at water/oil
ratios that press economic limits.
111 Conference Will Bring Reservoir and Facilities
Engineers Together
How reservoir
engineers and facilities/process engineers can work together more efficiently
is the subject of a new conference in June.
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS
66 Deepwater Projects
Karen Olson, SPE, Completion Expert,
Southwestern Energy
67
Deepwater Workover Experience With Extreme Hydrostatic Overbalance
70
Integrated Production and Reservoir Modeling To Optimize Deepwater Development
74
Measurement and Modeling of Topographically Trapped Waves Along the Sigsbee Escarpment
76 Intelligent Fields Technology
lberê Alves, SPE, Senior Technical Advisor,
Artificial Lift and Flow Assurance, Petrobras
77 Field
and Installation Monitoring With Online Data Validation and Reconciliation—
Middle East and West Africa Offshore Fields
80 Indonesion
Fieldwide Application of Intelligent-Well Technology—A Case History
83
Real-Time Measurements of Spontaneous Potential for lnflow Monitoring in Intelligent
Wells
86 Multilateral/Extended Reach
Alvaro Felippe Negrão, SPE, Global Drilling and
Completion Manager, Repsol
87 Parque
das Conchas (BC-10) — Delivering Deepwater Extended-Reach Wells in o
Low-Fracture-Gradient Setting
90 Justifying
Use of Multilateral Wells in the Samotlor Field
92 New
Approach To Extend Horizontal-Drilling Reach
96 Well Construction
Bob Carpenter, SPE, Research Consultant,
Chevron Exploration and Technology Company’s Cement Team
97 Use of a
Mechanistic Model to Forecast Cement-Sheath Integrity for CO2
Storage
99 A New Automated MPD System Used in an
Onshore Depleted Gas Field
103 An Innovative
Approach To Optimizing Design of HP/HT Tubular Strings
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