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Special Features

Q&A

In a continuing series of interviews helping to mark SPE’s 50th anniversary, JPT talks to Ken Arnold, Senior Executive Vice President with AMEC Paragon and SPE’s first Technical Director for Projects, Facilities, and Construction.

Guest Editorial • Safe Drinking Water: The Case for Service

Former SPE President Roy Koerner challenges engineers to put their unique skills to work to help bring safe drinking water to impoverished areas.

Management • Information Security: Risk and Reward

Donald Gauci, a partner with Ernst & Young, discusses how oil and gas companies can mitigate risk amid increasing information system complexity and demands, terrorism and security-breach threats, and competitive and regulatory pressures.

Resource, Talent Challenges Headline Annual Drilling Conference

Coverage of the 24th annual SPE/IADC Drilling Conference, which discussed the technical, economic, and political challenges of producing future reserves.

Distinguished Author Series • Reserves Estimation: The Challenge for the Industry

Before the issue caught the public’s attention, reserves estimation was a challenge. Ferruh Demirmen presents issues related to reserves, reviews reserves-estimation procedures, and makes suggestions to improve procedures for conventional oil and gas reservoirs.

Formation Evaluation

Overview

Martin Kennedy, SPE, chief ­petrophysicist, Woodside Energy

Marine Controlled-Source Electromagnetic Response: Campos Basin Experience

Core-Data Preprocessing To Improve Permeability Estimation From Logs

Reservoir Crude-Oil-Viscosity Estimation From Wireline-NMR Measurements—Rajasthan, India

Dynamic Depth Correction To Reduce Depth Uncertainty and Improve MWD/LWD Log Quality

Artificial Lift

Overview

Stuart L. Scott, SPE, associate professor of petroleum engineering, Texas A&M University

Dewatering Unconventional Gas Resources With Sucker-Rod-Pumping Equipment

Prediction of Slug-to-Annular Flow-Pattern Transition

Adco ESP Pilot

Wellbore Tubulars

Overview

David A. Baker, SPE, research specialist, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company

Dope-Free Connections: A North Sea Case Study

Optimization of Big-Bore Wells in a Giant Offshore Field

Solid-Expandable-Tubular Technology: Case Histories From the Sabah Deepwater Campaign

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Petroleum Industry 2020

Abdul-Jaleel Al-Khalifa

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John Donnelly

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