There are 41 articles that meet your search term - Society of Petroleum Engineers - in the Archives.
The most recent articles are posted here. Click Here for a more complete Archives search...

Denali names Calvin, Coughlin, Jepsen 08/03/2008
North Slope producer group hires experienced pipeline exec from BP's Baku office for operations VP of its Alaska gas line firm
Three vice presidents have been named at Denali - The Alaska Gas Pipeline LLC. Denali President Bud Fackrell said Dave Calvin has been named vice president and operations director; Patrick Coughlin v...

MEET ALASKA 2007: Meet Alaska 2007 speakers 01/21/2007
Richard F. Guerrant Richard F. Guerrant, vice president-Americas for ExxonMobil Gas and Power Marketing Co., is located in Houston, Texas, and is responsible for the marketing of ExxonMobil's natural g...

Oversight office recruiting staff 11/12/2006
Alaska's newest program for monitoring oil and gas operations will start by reviewing BP's Prudhoe Bay quality assurance
The new Alaska Division of Oil and Gas office that will monitor oil and gas operations on state lands has an acting manager, contracts out for consulting work and is ready to begin recruiting staff. L...

Technology unlocking Inlet riches 06/25/2006
Aurora Gas' Clifford explains how techniques such as 3-D seismic combined with an understanding of the Cook Inlet petroleum reservoirs help locate hydrocarbons in the Southcentral Alaska basin
Alaska's Cook Inlet isn't an easy place in which to explore for oil and gas. High quality seismic data are difficult to obtain. And the inlet is notorious for the complexity of its reservoirs, which o...

New take on North Slope oil sources 06/11/2006
USGS geologist says geological team made a surprising finding about the source oils for Alaska's giant Prudhoe Bay field
Tracing the source of oil in an oilfield can be a bit like finding a crack in a leaking roof. Your first guess is that the leak is close to the water stain in the ceiling. But the water could equally...

Changing direction 05/21/2006
BP hopes horizontal multilaterals will prove superior to vertical well designs at Badami
Undulating horizontal drilling techniques of the type successfully used to develop viscous oil on Alaska's North Slope could prove a key to unlocking BP's 120 million barrel Badami field. BP restarted...

BP to try new waterflood for viscous 06/04/2006
Drawing hot, clean water from deep underground and injecting it into the viscous oil reservoir should increase production rates
As part of its ongoing efforts to develop the huge viscous oil deposits under Alaska's North Slope, BP Exploration (Alaska) is trying a novel technique that involves extracting hot water from an under...

Geoscientists, engineers set to meet in Anchorage this spring 02/05/2006
Joint AAPG, SPE, GSA meeting in Anchorage in May to highlight use of technology to deliver energy, natural resources in future
People who think that they always have to travel to the Lower 48 or overseas to attend professional conferences might want to check out the joint meeting of the Pacific Section, American Association o...

Conference abstracts due Feb. 7 01/29/2006
The deadline is approaching for abstracts for the May joint meeting of the Cordilleran Section of the Geological Society of America, the Pacific Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geolog...

Oil Patch Insider 01/15/2006
May conference will focus on natural resource development
"North to Alaska: geoscience, technology and natural resources" will be the theme of a joint meeting of the Pacific Section - American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Western Region - Society of...

UAF seeks to double petroleum engineers 12/04/2005
Seeking to snag its share of students nationwide interested in petroleum engineering, the University of Alaska Anchorage has hired a recruitment coordinator and two part-time telemarketers to help dou...

Energy industry faces worker shortage 10/02/2005
Looming retirements face oil and gas industry; rigs also an issue, with equipment sought for U.S. work in China, Italy and Norway drilling
Brian Barclay makes a 275-mile commute across Colorado every week to work near the dusty little town of Rifle, drawn by a natural gas boom that has added trucks, cranes and hundreds of people to the r...

Saudi oil shock ahead 09/11/2005
Simmons pokes holes in image of unlimited Middle East oil; prepare for worst
As Congress turns to legislation that could open a new era of Alaska Arctic oil production, one highly regarded energy analyst says he's convinced the move is critical to the success of a national ene...

PETROLEUM DIRECTORY: PGS Onshore 02/20/2005
High client value, small environmental impact
Success in the oil field depends largely on minimizing risk and uncertainty. That, in turn, according to the Society of Petroleum Engineers, drives the quest to acquire information about the subsurfac...

Simmons hopes he's wrong 08/01/2004
Leading energy analyst believes Saudi Arabia's crude oil supply near peak; calls for greater global reserve transparency to anticipate 'cataclysm'
Matt Simmons hopes he is wrong. But if he's right in his belief that Saudi Arabia's giant oil fields might already have peaked and could start into rapid decline in as few as three years, somebody bet...

Industry wants clarity on reserves, says SEC reserve rules out of date 04/18/2004
Agency asked Gulf of Mexico operators in 2002 if they were using 1978-prescribed formation testing, historically interpreted as flow testing, to gauge deepwater reserves, a process that could take two years, cost upward of $35M
In the year and half since the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission put companies on notice concerning their methods of accounting for oil and gas reserves, industry's world has been turned upside...