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Workers conduct tests at Baker Hughes’ Experimental Test Area near Tulsa, Oklahoma. The facility provides a bridge between small-scale simulator testing and full-scale field applications of downhole tools, and includes a real-time data-acquisition system.

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Special Features

Guest Editorial • Technology: The 2006 Fuel Additive

Scott Weir, Oil and Gas Industry Leader for EDS, discusses why information technology will be an important part of the transformation process as demand pressures force oil and gas companies to change how they do business.

Q&A with John Gibson

An interview with John Gibson, Executive Chairman of Paradigm.

SPE Director Nominations

The nominees for 2008 SPE President and other officer and director positions approved by SPE’s Board of Directors.

Technology Tomorrow • The Next Trillion: Anticipating and Enabling Game-Changing Recoveries

Nansen G. Saleri, Manager, Reservoir Management, for Saudi Aramco ponders how high the industry can stretch expected ultimate recoveries and looks at the obstacles in the way of achieving those figures.

Special Feature • Applications of Nanotechnology in Oil and Gas E&P

Saeid Mokhatab of the U. of Wyoming, Mariela Araujo Fresky of Imperial College, London, and M. Rafiqul Islam of Dalhousie U. discuss how breakthroughs in nanotechnology could open up the possibility of new sources of global energy supply.

Management • Moving Project Management to the Next Level of Performance

Dutch Holland, Chairman, and Mike Campbell, Managing Director, Holland & Davis LLC, examine the benefits of project management and why companies should recognize it as a core value.

OTC Technology Preview

A first look at some of the best papers that will be presented at the 2006 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC).

Offshore Drilling and Completion

Overview

Didier Gazaniol, SPE, Wells and Drilling R&D Adviser, Total

Marco Polo Deepwater TLP

Drilling Underbalanced From a Drillship in the Santos Basin

First TTRD Well Drilled From a Floating Platform—Concept Study to Reality

Economic and Operational Benefits of Drill-Through Completion Technologies

Natural Gas Technology and Monetization

Overview

John Vitucci, SPE, Senior Project Manager, FMC Technologies

Gas-To-Liquids Update

Floating LNG Systems—Export and Import Terminals

CNG Solution for Offshore Gas Transportation

Heavy Oil

Overview

Tony Kovscek, SPE, Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering, Stanford U.

New Developments in Steamflood Modeling

Experiment Observations of Miscible Displacement of Heavy Oil With Hydrocarbon Solvents

Clair Field, West of Shetland

Departments

Performance Indices

Regional Update

Company News

Stand Tall and Speak Up

Eve S. Sprunt

Comments

John Donnelly

Technology Applications

Technology Update

techbits

People

Meetings

SPE News