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Special Features

Technology Tomorrow

In the current installment of this yearlong series, Roy Long, E&P Program Technology Manager for the National Energy Technology Laboratory, looks at the world's near-term resource potential and the processes for developing technologies that can successfully tap that potential.

Guest Editorial • Sometimes Bigger is Better: Big Oil as Radical Innovators in E&P

Robert K. Perrons, a Smart Fields Consultant in Shell International's E&P Division, argues that the frequent eulogies and epitaphs for large E&P companies are premature.

ATCE Preview

A glance at the 2006 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE), to be held 24-27 September in San Antonio, Texas.

Russian Conference Preview

The first Russian Oil and Gas Technical Conference and Exhibition will examine the theme: Technology for world-class resources.

Management • Building Blocks for Change Management

Robert Troy, Vice President of engineering/Operations with TrueStar Petroleum, and management consultant Joe Kazen examine the processes that can help E&P companies achieve a defined set of desired outcomes.

Intelligent Fields Technology

Overview

Sam Gomersall, SPE, Managing Director, Digital Energy Exchange

Integrated Digital-Oilfield Project - San Ardo, California

Field of the Future: Vision to Reality

Making Mature Fields Smarter

Subsea Smart Multilateral Wells Increase Reserves at Gullfaks South Statfjord

Subsea Technology

Overview

Jacques B. Saliés, SPE, Drilling and Completion Manager, Petrobras America

Kizomba A and B: Installation Overview

Albacora Leste Field - Subsea Production-System Development

Subsea Processing and Boosting - Technical Challenges and Opportunities

Unconventional Recovery

Overview

Stephen Norris, SPE, Senior Staff Engineer, J-W Operating Co.

CO2 Storage in Natural-Gas-Hydrate Reservoirs Benefits From Associated Methane Production

Numerical Simulation of CO2 and CO2/H2S Storage in Deep Saline Aquifers

A Parametric Study of Horizontal and Multilateral Wells in Coalbed-Methane Reservoirs

Departments

Performance Indices

Regional Update

Company News

Stand Tall and Speak Up

Eve S. Sprunt, 2006 SPE President

Comments

John Donnelly, JPT Editor

Technology Applications

Dennis Denney, JPT Technology Editor

Technology Update

techbits

SPE News

People

Meetings