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Running a shale exploration and production operation requires a sharp focus on costs, but not all are measured the same.

Saudi Aramco’s new strategy aims to implement its intelligent field (I-Field) concept in all its upstream operations by 2016-2017, according to a source close to the company.

In the early 1980s, while the authors of the original paper were reassessing some old gravel-pack sands from a well, some sludge was noticed in the samples.

There is no doubt that North Sea activity, both its highs and lows, has been the benchmark of quality and efficiency for many decades.

Saudi Aramco says its Manifa field is an example of how it is combining its technology and innovation capabilities to develop one of the most challenging megaprojects in the history of the company.

It has been an impressive comeback for a technology that once stood on the brink of failure. The upstream oil and gas industry has largely resolved crippling technical challenges that shortened the life of fiber-optic cables in downhole applications and is now working on a big encore.

Downhole fiber-optic systems work by using a small laser that fires off a pulse of light through hair-thin cables made of silica glass.

Applying a cutoff consists of defining a threshold value on one or more logs to separate the reservoir intervals in which hydrocarbons are mobile from the gross rock thickness.

Any oil and gas deal usually involves a data room, where rich seams of proprietary information can be mined for a limited period.

This paper presents two real-field case studies from the Norwegian continental shelf that use available DFA data to support the assumptions made from other data on reservoir architecture between wells.