Improved Recovery Week articles from January 1997

Improved Recovery Week archives from January 1997

Monterey Resources, Santa Fe Resources spin-off, to drill 40 horizontals at Midway-Sunset this year.
January 6, 1997... As Monterey Resources Inc. begins the new year as a stand-alone independent producer in California, a significant share of the company's accent will be on horizontal drilling technology. The Bakersfield-based company is the result of late last...

Hugoton Energy to drill multiple 3-D prospects in 1997.
January 6, 1997... Hugoton Energy Corp., Wichita, Kan., is entering the new year with a string of development drilling successes and a bundle of new prospects spurred by 3-D seismic surveys. The prospects range from South Texas through Kansas and into the...

DOE awards $250,000 for Williston Basin under reservoir management CRADA. (Dept. of Energy; Cooperative Research and Development Agreement)
January 13, 1997... A $500,000 Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) was announced late last year between the Energy Dept. and Nance Petroleum Co., Billings, Mont. Under the CRADA, DOE's Bartlesville, Okla.-based petroleum research laboratory...

North Sea operators fund ocean floor water separation research.
January 13, 1997... Major oil companies operating in the North Sea have launched a joint industry research project to develop improved technology for water/oil separation on the seabed. The reward could lop more than USS 1 billion off future operating costs....

Global industry outlook soars; E&P technology defines gas growth. (exploration and production)
January 13, 1997... Two recently announced petroleum industry studies signal distinctly heightened exploration and production activity in both the U.S. and overseas during 1997 and beyond. Wall Street analysts Salomon Brothers last week predicted that producing...

World's largest proprietary 3-D survey under way off Est Africa.
January 13, 1997... The M/V Ramform Challenger, one of only three seismic vessels of its type in existence, has kicked off what its owner - Petroleum Geo Service ASA (PGS) - says is the largest proprietary seismic survey ever carried out anywhere in the world....

Phillips, ARCO agree on deep Cook Inlet delineation drilling. (Phillips Petroleum Co.; ARCO Alaska Inc.)
January 13, 1997... Phillips Petroleum Co. and ARCO Alaska Inc. last week reached an agreement that clears the way for additional delineation drilling and potential development of the deep oil zone beneath Phillips' Tyonek production platform at the northern end of...

Operator sets oil mining project for Texas oil field; shaft excavation to begin next month at Corsicana. (PetroTech Resources Inc.)
January 27, 1997... Digging shafts to mine for oil is an age-old practice around the world. Such mines were known to have been dug in ancient China and in Asia Minor, as well as on the steppes of Eastern Europe, mostly to recover tar, asphalt or oil shale. The...

Phillips Petroleum Co. takes over Chinese coalbed methane concession.
January 27, 1997... Development of several coalbed methane concessions by a U.S. company, CBM Energy Associates L.C. (CBMEA) in the People's Republic of China, has been expanded with the recent buy-in of Phillips Petroleum Co. Combined, the concessions, in the...

Big graphics computer expected to aid in reservoir simulation for North Sea producers.
January 27, 1997... Schlumberger Ltd. and Silicon Graphics have joined forces with Heriot-Watt Univ. in Edinburgh to set up what is thought to be Scotland's most powerful graphics computer as an aid to reservoir flow simulation studies for the North Sea oil...

Mobil signs Halliburton to drill up to 15 Permian Basin wells; finals sale of 27 fields. (Mobil Exploration and Producing U.S. Inc.; Halliburton Energy Services Inc.)
January 27, 1997... Dallas-based Mobil Exploration & Producing U.S. Inc. (MEPUS) is making headlines with its activities in the Permian Basin of West Texas/Southeastern New Mexico. The Mobil Corp. unit announced last week that it had cut a deal with Halliburton...

AOSIS reports on IOR, heavy oil. (Alberta Department of Energy, Oil Sands Information Services)
January 27, 1997... The Alberta Dept. of Energy, Oil Sands Information Services (AOSIS) makes the following oil sands/heavy oil/IOR technical reports and papers available to interested parties. For copies, call AOSIS in Calgary at 403-297-3631 (fax: 403-297-3638)....