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A brief primer on managed pressure drilling (MPD) and how it compares with underbalanced drilling (UBD).

Wind power via floating turbines could be used to pump oil from remote offshore fields in the way windmills were once used to pump water from wells in arid West Texas.

The next couple of years for the oil and gas industry are likely to be defined by mediocre prices. “It is going to take a long time to get back to the good old days," said Atul Arya, senior vice president of IHS Energy, during OTC.

Transforming and shaping the future of the exploration and production (E&P) industry will be the theme of SPE's first Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition to be held in the Middle East, running September 26-28 at the Dubai World Trade Center.

Of all the attention generated over the opening of the Mexican oil and gas sector to the outside world, one consideration has been largely left out of the discussion: What does it all mean for service companies?

Precise casing-wear prediction is important for improving well integrity and longevity, while simultaneously making casing designs more cost-effective. There are no industry guidelines for casing-wear prediction. This article presents a validated predictive model.

For deepwater development, panelists at OTC emphasized the need for scalable technology, the standardization and simplification of projects, patient capital investment in innovation, greater collaboration, and new perspectives coming from outside the industry.

This month's papers address one of the effects of an alkaline-surfactant-polymer flood on changes to the emulsion rheology, the conservation of flared associated gas from two onshore Tunisian fields despite high H2S and CO2 content, and minimizing HSE impacts for pipelines in the Baltic Sea.

The present work describes the development of a 1D steady-state isothermal reservoir/surface gas-pipeline-network model. The developed model is an extension of the general pipeline-network model in which the deliverability from the wells is calculated.

During the design of two parallel gas pipelines from Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea, major design changes were made to minimize project impacts, resulting in rapid approval by all five affected countries.