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“All models are wrong, but some are useful.”

This paper is intended to increase awareness among the forecasters and the decision makers about pitfalls associated with production forecasting.

The K field is one of the more developed deepwater fields currently going through development in Malaysia.

A microchip system capable of measuring temperature and pressure over the entire wellbore was developed and tested in the field.

Achieve more with less. This is the rallying cry as our global energy journey plays out, whether in the onshore shale developments, in the deepwater basins, or in the frozen lands and waters of the Arctic. Two important levers for achieving this goal are through improvements in well reliability and well productivity. Our industry needs to build and operate wells that …

Over the years, hybrid systems have been installed in horizontal wellbores to increase the number of compartmental sections for hydraulic fracturing because of the limitations of ball-actuated fracture sleeves. Experimenting with hybrid systems provides operators with the ability to optimize spacing of fracture stages along the horizontal section when sleeve technolog…

The careful planning and successful execution of a multistage-fracture-stimulation completion in one of the first horizontal wells (KZN-F) drilled in the Amin formation in north central Oman instigated a step change in initial production rate and long-term deliverability from this tight-gas-sandstone reservoir. The operator and service company worked as a team, modeli…

Statoil, operating the Troll field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, wished to run a deep sidetrack from the main bore in a multilateral well that would exit through the liner in the reservoir. Several zonal-isolation methods had been evaluated, but on the basis of previous experience Statoil decided to use swellable-packer technology. Testing revealed that th…

Recently, a series of instrumented perforation experiments demonstrated that existing cleanup models do not accurately predict perforation cleanup when perforating in a DUB condition.

Recently, while preparing to present a seminar on deepwater-well-construction optimization, I tried hard to find a word or a phrase that could be seen as “the secret” for a safe and optimized drilling performance.