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This paper describes thermal modeling and its combination with drilling-fluid analysis to reveal concealed changes in well conditions during various drilling and completion operations.

In the northeastern desert of Utah, a new type of oil sands extraction technology has been born. The ­company behind it claims the process is the most cost-effective and environmentally sound way to develop oil sands.

As decommissioning costs mount in the US Gulf of Mexico, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is looking to change financial requirements for ­lessees and operators in federal waters for the first time in more than 20 years.

This is an update on several managed-pressure drilling (MPD) technologies and downhole drilling performance-enhancing tools in use onshore and is the first of a two-part series. The second article on offshore MPD technologies will appear in the February issue of JPT.

Downhole data acquisition by fiber-optic technology, particularly distributed fiber-optic (DFO) sensing, has gained rapid acceptance. Compared with conventional data acquisition, DFO provides a much better understanding of well and reservoir behavior.

The three Ps that successful companies get right are: people, portfolio, and performance. And you cannot have one without the other. Great people select great portfolios and great portfolios deliver great performance.

This month, Mexico will begin opening data rooms as it prepares for its first upstream bidding round involving foreign participation.

The authors describe the development of well-control techniques that allowed successful drilling operations in the Piloncillo Ranch lease in south Texas.

From 2009 to 2010, there was an increase in the number of well-control incidents on the Norwegian continental shelf reported to the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA).

The decline in oil prices will not affect the long-term strategy of national oil companies in the Middle East, ministers and senior executives said at the opening of the 30th edition of Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) held in November.