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The beneficial use of produced water is receiving great attention in the oil and gas industry. As oil and gas are produced, large quantities of water containing high amounts of total dissolved solids (TDS) are produced in the process.

By all objective measures, SPE is a very successful organization. Our membership, which has become increasingly global, has more than doubled in the past decade. The number of conferences and workshops has increased without compromising on quality.

There has been remarkable growth in the coiled-tubing industry in North America, resulting largely from the shale revolution. This growth attracted numerous new players into the industry, in addition to the capacity additions made by the existing service providers.

In the southern North Sea, many fields suffer from declining gas production because of reservoir-pressure depletion and associated liquid loading.

Horizontal wellbores typically encounter inefficiencies caused by friction during drilling and completion operations.

Sticking the coiled tubing (CT) is a major operational risk when performing a well intervention with CT. Stuck-pipe incidents often result in considerable production delay or, in the worst case, loss of the well.

Novel multizone stimulation technologies have enabled the development of tight resources that previously could not be developed economically and have enabled optimization of production resources distributed over thick gross intervals.

This past spring, I had the opportunity to review more than 100 SPE paper abstracts as well as numerous full papers from those abstracts. To SPE’s credit, these abstracts all represent high-quality papers, making it difficult to select those to be highlighted for this feature.

As oil companies have moved to more-marginal reservoir targets, application of conventional techniques has often yielded disappointing results, and tighter zones are often abandoned for more-promising target intervals.

In the Danish central graben, tight chalk reservoirs have been developed successfully through drilling, completion, and stimulation of long horizontal wells.