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How The Latest Technology Advancements Can Lower Your Interpretation Time
Originally Broadcast: May 20, 2009
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SMT's ease of use has made it the geoscience software choice for 2500 customers in 95 countries. KINGDOM Advanced takes SMT's science into the next generation, on the largest of data sets. We'll show you how the latest technology advancements can lower your interpretation time from "days ...
Subsea Boosting and Processing: The Latest Advancements Applied In The Field
Originally Broadcast: March 31, 2009
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Subsea boosting and processing technologies are expected to be key enablers in improving resource recovery in deepwater and marginal fields. While the deployment of the technologies is still in the early stages, demand is set to increase. Over $140 billion in deepwater spending is forecast ...
Ultra-Deepwater HPHT Riser Technology: Latest Developments
Originally Broadcast: March 17, 2009
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Current discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico combine extreme water depths with high pressure/high temperature (HPHT) reservoir conditions where mudline shut in pressures can approach or even exceed 15 ksi. Given the limits of current drilling and completion design, the offshore industry ...
US Energy Politics: An OGJ Conversation
Originally Broadcast: March 6, 2009
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A conversation between two seasoned observers of US policy-making: Oil & Gas Journal Washington Editor Nick Snow and Editor Bob Tippee. The conversation will be based on OGJ's special report entitled US Energy Politics, which appeared in the Jan. 12, 2009, edition of the magazine.
The Latest in Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) Technology: Making Previously Undrillable Wells Drillable
Originally Broadcast: February 25, 2009
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The demands of modern wells are rewriting old concepts of how to drill a well.
Managed pressure drilling (MPD) is presenting drillers with new opportunities when it comes to mitigating drilling hazards often encountered in these wells.
Particularly in difficult environments, ...
Managing Risk and Volatility in Today's Oil and Gas Industry
Originally Broadcast: January 30, 2009
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Even in the best of times, every petroleum company has some level of exposure to risk and volatility. Factor in the worst economy in decades, dramatic pricing volatility, and emerging legislation - and you've got a perfect storm of risk exposure across the enterprise.
Tom Lochbichler, ...
Annual Forecast and Review -- 2009
Originally Broadcast: January 29, 2009
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Oil & Gas Journal Editor Bob Tippee discusses key influences in the global and US oil markets based on data published in the annual Forecast and Review special report published in the Jan. 19 issue. Tippee's review includes an assessment of past forecasts against actual historical data. ...
Storage Requirements for Exploration Acquisition, Processing, and Interpretation
Originally Broadcast: January 27, 2009
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Increasingly, the demands of accelerated exploration for new energy resources are placing a burden on supporting IT infrastructures. The data intensive processes represented by acquisition, processing and interpretation workflows now require that storage infrastructures are optimized ...
Drilling into Workforce Productivity in the Oil & Gas industry
Originally Broadcast: January 14, 2009
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While most companies strive for continuous operational improvement, overall effectiveness and efficiency is paramount during these trying economic times. Although the manufacturing industry has placed great emphasis on developing, deploying, and operating highly efficient physical plant ...
Top 5 Offshore Field Development Projects of 2008
Originally Broadcast: December 18, 2008
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The editors of Offshore have made their choices for the winners of the Five Star Award - the top five offshore field development projects for 2008. The projects are selected on the basis on best use of innovation in production method, application of technology, and resolution of challenges, ...
Operational Readiness and Asset Information Management
Originally Broadcast: December 16, 2008
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In capital projects, Owner/Operators, engineering firms (EPCs), and equipment suppliers deal with enormous amounts of asset information. Key factors, such as project schedule and costs, time to full-production, and operational risks are adversely affected with poor Asset Information Management ...
Maximizing Your Geoscience Environment in 2009
Originally Broadcast: December 2, 2008
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With oil hovering around $50 a barrel, 2009 promises to bring new challenges to the E&P industry - both technical and financial. As organizations rush to adjust to the changing realities, we explore numerous steps that can be taken today to increase efficiencies in your environment.
This ...
Subsea Increased Oil Recovery: New Production For Declining Fields
Originally Broadcast: November 13, 2008
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Vast pools of oil and gas remain undeveloped because they are uneconomic for conventional primary recovery processes. The objective is to implement secondary and tertiary recovery in these reservoirs to restore formation pressure and oil displacement. On Nov. 13 at 8:00 a.m. CST, an award ...
North American Shale Gas: Prospects and Pitfalls on the Road Ahead
Originally Broadcast: October 22, 2008
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Gas shale development in the US (and soon in Canada) has set a blistering pace, thanks to aggressive E&P players and a strongly supportive services infrastructure. Recent successes in North American gas shales are largely due to well-planned leasing strategies, cost-appropriate technologies, ...
The Kaleidoscope Project: The Future of Subsalt Imaging
Originally Broadcast: October 21, 2008
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Repsol, together with 3DGeo, a Houston-based imaging company formed by Stanford University professor and seismic imaging pioneer, Biondo Biondi, and the Spanish government-owned Barcelona Supercomputer Center (BSC), have created The Kaleidoscope Project. The Kaleidoscope Project is a ...
Conference Review: Unconventional Gas International
Originally Broadcast: October 2, 2008
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A live video webcast of the Closing Session of the Unconventional Gas International Conference & Exhibition Sept. 30-Oct. 2 in Fort Worth, Texas.
Members of the Conference Advisory Board will discuss important issues from the conference & answer questions from the on-site and internet ...
Operational Risk Management
Originally Broadcast: October 2, 2008
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Operational Risk Management is the pillar of Enterprise Risk Management. Process Safety Management (PSM) is a key component that is comprised of people, environmental & asset related business processes within operating companies in Oil & Gas. Today, operational risks are managed on a ...
Refining Safety Practices
Originally Broadcast: September 25, 2008
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A discussion of Oil & Gas Journal's Sept. 8, 2008, Special Report, Refining Safety Practices, which focused on lessons from the fatal March 23, 2005 explosion at BP America Inc.'s Texas City, Texas refinery. Discussions will include subsequent updates to industry standards, regulations ...
Taking the Next Leap Forward with Real Time Operating Centers
Originally Broadcast: September 18, 2008
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The webcast speakers will explore how oil & gas operators can use real-time operations centers to increase production and accelerate well delivery for all types of wells, but particularly for high cost deepwater wells. The speakers will discuss how operating centers can be used for a ...
US Natural Gas: The New Outlook
Originally Broadcast: August 28, 2008
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Just a few years ago, the US gas outlook was for rising demand, steady at best domestic production, falling pipeline imports from Canada, and a consequent surge in imports of LNG. Things have changed. Domestic production, thanks to surging development of unconventional and deepwater reservoirs, ...
Completion Methods: Technology and Trends
Originally Broadcast: August 27, 2008
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Well completion, once a routine oil field activity that used a standard set of technologies, has become a driver of exploration and production. Advances in completion technology, for example, have made possible the important developments in the oil sands of Canada and the unconventional ...
The Future of Seismic Attributes - Understanding the Impact of Three Converging Technology Trends
Originally Broadcast: August 21, 2008
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Seismic attributes play a major role in helping geoscientists interpret seismic data by quantifying and revealing information that help define the geology and rock physics of prospects.
We see three converging technology trends that define "the future of seismic attributes":
1. ...
The Petrobras FPSO Experience: Technology Evolution and Application In the US Gulf of Mexico
Originally Broadcast: August 14, 2008
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Petrobras is a world leader in FPSO technology development and experience. The company has been operating FPSOs offshore Brazil since 1982, and currently hosts a portfolio of 18 units. On Nov. 29, 2006, MMS approved Petrobras' conceptual plan for the Cascade/Chinook project in Walker ...
Frontiers of Geophysics Technology
Originally Broadcast: August 5, 2008
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PennEnergy's Oil & Gas Journal Research Center is pleased to present the webcast "Frontiers of Geophysics Technology," scheduled for 12:00 pm CDT on August 5, 2008. Advances in geophysics technology, especially seismic, have been the driver for tremendous efficiency and productivity gains ...
Midyear Forecast & Review - 2008
Originally Broadcast: July 30, 2008
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The webcast will discuss highlights of Oil & Gas Journal's annual Midyear Forecast, a special report appearing in the July 14th edition. The Midyear Forecast uses first-half data to update projections that appeared in OGJ's Annual Forecast and Review this past January. Both reports project ...
Washington Energy Politics: An OGJ Conversation - July 2008
Originally Broadcast: July 23, 2008
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In a freewheeling, informal format, two veteran Washington watchers from the Oil & Gas Journal staff, one an analytical reporter and the other an editorial writer, will discuss important energy issues and the U.S. political climate for energy. The panelists will make brief presentations, ...
Hurricane Preparedness: The Latest Guidelines and Lessons Learned
Originally Broadcast: July 23, 2008
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A number of API recommended practices have been or are being revised due to learning's from operational practices, experiences, and from recent hurricanes. The webcast and article (to be published in the August issue of Offshore) will summarize the progress and current status of these ...
