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Current long-reach technology already has a large effect on oil recovery. Many possible improvements, however, remain, and we see new contributions every year.

The Peregrino project, located in the post-salt zone of the Campos Basin, presents immense challenges for drilling extended-reach wells. This paper shares challenges imposed by the well profile and downhole environment on the design and execution phases.

This paper presents a concept that enables simultaneous drilling and completion, with an aim to extend well reach substantially and with an ultimate objective of constructing 30-km-long production wells.

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The authors present a new data-driven approach to estimate the injection rate in all noninstrumented wells in a large waterflooding operation accurately.

Darcy Spady, 2018 SPE president, visited engineering faculty and students at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur in March. Spady met with Malaysian Student Chapters representatives and had separate meetings with Professor Aziz Rahman, dean of faculty of engineering, and Badrul Mohamed Jan, the university student chapter adviser. Members of six SPE student chapter…

The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) has released a report titled “In Pursuit of Technological Innovation” that outlines the goals and initial analysis of the AIME Council of Excellence, established in 2014 by Behrooz Fattahi, the AIME president at the time. The report is available for free download at the AIME website at www…

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions received approval for 25 materials to American Petroleum Institute API-16C specification relative to oil and gas choke and kill valve requirements. This represents the largest number of materials compliant to the standard available from any seal manufacturer, according to Trelleborg. The certification dictates a brine/diesel chemical compo…

Tyrone Jeffers joined SPX Flow as VP, global manufacturing and supply chain. He was also appointed as an officer of the company and will be a member of the executive leadership team reporting directly to President and CEO Marc Michael. He will succeed David Kowalski, president, global manufacturing operations, who plans to retire in the second half of 2018. Jeffers jo…

Lonestar Resources CFO Doug Banister retired on 30 April. He will provide consulting services to the company on a going-forward basis. Jason N. Werth has joined the company as the chief accounting officer and Gregory R. Packer joined as general counsel. Werth's most recent position was director of audit at Denbury Resources. He previously held positions at Arthur Ande…