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SPECIAL FEATURES

Presidential Interview

2009 SPE President Leo Roodhart outlines the goals for his term and assesses the future of SPE and the oil and gas industry.

Guest Editorial • Biases, Pressures, and Problems in Energy Price Forecasting

John Tobin, Executive Director of the Energy Literacy Project and author of Confessions of an Energy Price Forecaster—A 12-Step Program to Enlightenment,explains the purpose and limitations of energy price forecasting and provides guidelines to better understand oil and gas prices.

SPE Russian Conference Preview

A preview of the second SPE Russian Oil and Gas Technical Conference & Exhibition, to be held in October in Moscow.

Barnett Shale Showcases Tight-Gas Development

Advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing treatments have made the Barnett Shale formation of North Texas one of the great recent success stories in gas production and a showcase for tight-reservoir development technologies.

SPE’s Forum Series

The 2009 Eastern Hemisphere Forums include discussions on extended-reach wells, CO2 capture and storage, drilling nonproductive time, and production forecasts.

Digital Technologies for the Next Trillion Barrels

What are the game-changing digital technologies our industry will rely on to meet growing worldwide demand? Operators, oilfield services, and IT technology providers share their thoughts on what technologies will be used and how they will change work processes.

Management • Testing for Life

Hatem Soliman, President of Testing Services for Schlumberger, discusses how today’s complex wells require testing through every phase of the well’s life cycle.

Technical and Professional Award Winners

The winners of SPE’s Annual Technical and Professional Awards, including the Anthony F. Lucas Technical Leadership Gold Medal, John Franklin Carll Distinguished Professional Award, Distinguished Service Award, and others.

Discussion

Readers react to June’s Guest Editorial on climate change.

Completions Today

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Overview

Damir Horvat, SPE, Engineering Manager (Drilling and Completions), Arrow Energy.

Radial-Coreflood Placement Tests

This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper SPE 114096, “Radial Core Flood Placement Tests,” by R. Stalker, SPE, I.J. Littlehales, SPE, G.M. Graham, and G.F. Oluyemi, Scaled Solutions Ltd., originally prepared for the 2008 SPE International Oilfield Scale Conference, Aberdeen, 28–29 May. The paper has not been peer reviewed.

The Cement Packer: A Simple and Economic Method of Accessing Bypassed Reservoir Potential

This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper SPE 108973, “Multitype Application of Cement Packer: Simple and Economic Method of Accessing Bypassed Reservoir Potential,” by Muhammad Idris, SPE, Martin Rylance, SPE, and Krisjahbana Joenoes, Vico Indonesia, and Nanang Firmansyah and Anton Supriyono, Halliburton Indonesia, originally prepared for the 2007 SPE Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition, Jakarta, 30 October–1 November. The paper has not been peer reviewed.

Labyrinth Packer Lowers Costs for Steam-Injection Wells

This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper SPE 110454, “Labyrinth Packer Lowers the Costs for Steam-Injection Wells: Theoretical and Experimental Results,” by C. Teodoriu, SPE, and G. Falcone, SPE, Texas A&M U., originally prepared for the 2008 SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, Tulsa, 19–23 April. The paper has not been peer reviewed.

Multiple-Layer Completions for Treatment of Multilayer Reservoirs

This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper SPE 112476, “Multiple-Layer Completions for Efficient Treatment of Multilayer Reservoirs,” by Gary Rytlewski, SPE, Schlumberger, originally prepared for the 2008 IADC/SPE Drilling Conference, Orlando, Florida, 4–6 March. The paper has not been peer reviewed.

Reservoir Performance and Monitoring

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Torsten Clemens, SPE, Senior Reservoir Engineering Advisor, OMV

Monitoring the Oil Field With Live-Well Microseismics

This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper OTC 19693, “Monitoring the Oil Field of the Present Using Live-Well Microseismic Technology,” by Stephen A. Wilson, Gilles Le Floch, and Rob Jones, Schlumberger, prepared for the 2008 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, 5–8 May. The paper has not been peer reviewed.

Acoustic Surveillance of Production Impairment With Real-Time Completion Monitoring

This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper SPE 112301, “Acoustic Surveillance of Production Impairment With Real-Time Completion Monitoring,” by Andrey Bakulin, SPE, Shell; Alexander Sidorov and Boris Kashtan, St. Petersburg State University; and Mikko Jaaskelainen, SPE, Shell, prepared for the 2008 SPE International Symposium and Exhibition on Formation Damage Control, Lafayette, Louisiana, 13–15 February. The paper has not been peer reviewed.

Productivity from Eastern Nankai Trough Methane-Hydrate Reservoirs

This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper OTC 19382, “Prediction of Gas Productivity From Eastern Nankai Trough Methane-Hydrate Reservoirs,” by Masanori Kurihara, SPE, Akihiko Sato, and Hisanao Ouchi, Japan Oil Engineering Company; Hideo Narita, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology; Yoshihiro Masuda, SPE, the University of Tokyo; Tatsuo Saeki and Tetsuya Fujii, Japan Oil, Gas, and Metals National Corporation, prepared for the 2008 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, 5–8 May. The paper has not been peer reviewed.

Wellbore Integrity, Sand Management, and Frac Pack

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Harvey E. Goodman, SPE, Chevron Fellow for Rock Mechanics and Mechanical Earth Modeling, Chevron Energy Technology Company

Sand Management on the Lunskoye High-Gas-Rate Platform: Quantitative Risk Assessments

This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper SPE 112099, “Applying Sand-Management Process on the Lunskoye High-Gas-Rate Platform Using Quantitative Risk Assessment,” by M.C. Gunningham, SPE, Sakhalin Energy Investment Company; M.A. Addis, SPE, Shell; and J.A. Hother, SPE, Proneta UK, prepared for the 2008 SPE Intelligent Energy Conference and Exhibition, Amsterdam, 25–27 February. The paper has not been peer reviewed.

Near-Wellbore Modeling: Sand-Production Issues

This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper SPE 109894, “Near-Wellbore Modeling: Sand-Production Issues,” by Guillaume Servant, IFP; Philippe Marchina, SPE, Total; and Jean-François Nauroy, IFP, prepared for the 2007 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Anaheim, California, 11–14 November 2007. The paper has not been peer reviewed.

Screenless Frac-Pack Completions: Case Studies From Jidong Field, China

This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper SPE 108909, “Screenless Frac-Pack Completions—Case Studies From Jidong Field, China,” by Chang Xue Jun, SPE and Chen Ren Bao, PetroChina Jidong Oilfield, and Wirdansyah Lubis, Deng Hui, and Philip Nguyen, SPE, Halliburton, originally prepared for the 2007 SPE Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition, Jakarta, 30 October–1 November. The paper has not been peer reviewed.