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The world’s first offshore gas-hydrate production was carried out successfully in deepwater Japan at Nankai trough in 2013.

The Caspian Sea region is once again becoming one of the globe’s important frontiers in oil and gas production. Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan are in the midst of intensive efforts to underpin their developing economies by increased exploitation of massive reserves.

Shell undertook a 5-year program to address some of the universal challenges of competence management along with several internal improvement opportunities. The result has been the global implementation of a strategic solution that fundamentally reshaped how competence is managed within the company.

Concerned about the long-term impact of the current oil recession, SPE’s seven technical directors give their outlook for the coming year.

It was my pleasure to go through 169 papers submitted to SPE in this field over the past year and select three for inclusion in this issue as well as three for additional reading.

This paper discusses the first multilateral well with a Level-4 junction combined with an inflow-control device (ICD) planned, designed, and drilled in the Upper Burgan reservoir of Raudhatain field, north Kuwait.

Over the past year, despite the naysayers’ comments and predictions, the usual creativity and ingenuity of engineers and scientists in the oil industry were ubiquitous.

Statoil has successfully used dual-­gradient drilling for the first time ever in the US Gulf of Mexico (GOM) on an upper-hole section.

As with other MPD systems, SMD technology offers early detection of influxes (kicks) and minimizes downhole losses to weak subsurface formations.

Making hole has become a more difficult and complex operation as operators move into untapped horizons, especially deepwater and unconventional fields.