| Global Drilling Outlook |
Oil’s ‘wild ride’ over for now; natural gas heads into soft
by Linda Hsieh, assistant managing editor |
| Tight credit market could have ripple effect, but most offshore E&P regions look strong for 2009 by Jerry Greenberg, contributing editor |
| Black Sea, Caspian, Mediterranean bustling with exploration but still has much to prove by Jeremy Cresswell, contributing editor |
| Oil/gas industry needs more organized anti-corruption effort, expert says by Linda Hsieh, assistant managing editor |
| Ensign: Bureaucratic obstacles complicate moving of highly automated rigs into Australia by John Bushnell, Ensign International Energy Services |
| Industry Image |
Oil/gas industry knows it has a crisis of image. At last, we’re really doing something about it
by Katie Mazerov, contributing editor |
| Completions |
| Next-generation perforating system enhances testing, treatment of fracture stimulated wells by Matt Bell, GEODynamics, and David Cuthill, Weatherford Canada Partnership |
New fracture model takes into consideration load history, temperature, Poisson’s effect
by Bernt S. Aadnoy, University of Stavanger, and Mesfin Belayneh, International Research Institute of Stavanger |
| Asset Integrity |
| NOPSA: Operators must rigorously apply existing asset integrity management techniques by Facility Integrity Team, National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority (NOPSA) |
| Drilling Technology |
| New generation of solid expandable liners help give operators a jump on trouble zones by Pat York, Weatherford |
| well Control |
| Many factors are involved to properly size mud gas separator, or gas buster, systems by Dan Eby, Cudd Well Control |
| To avoid well control events, 21st-century drilling teams must recognize, repair system instability by John J van-Vegchel, University of New South Wales |
| Middle East |
| Increased energy demand in Abu Dhabi has companies local and foreign boosting activities by Mike Killalea, editor & publisher, and Katie Mazerov, contributing editor |
| Swellable packers provide breakthrough in Saudi Arabian horizontal slim-hole well by Adib A. Al-Mumen, Mohammed I. Al-Umran and Pradeep Agrawal, Saudi Aramco; Thomas Jorgensen and Peter E. Smith, Halliburton |
| Managed Pressure Drilling |
| Simplifying MPD: Historical, manual methods to control annular pressure can be effective by George H. Medley, Dennis Moore, and Sagar Nauduri, Signa Engineering |
| IADC connection |
| 2009 chairman profile: Maersk Drilling’s Claus Hemmingsen |
| Chairman’s editorial |
| Wirelines |
| News Cuttings |
| departments |
| Drilling Ahead |
| D&C News |
| D&C Tech Digest |
| Trainers Corner |
| People, Companies & Products |
| Perspectives: Otto Santos, Petrobras University |
