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Oil Patch Bits Marketing Solutions welcomes new account managers
Anchorage-based Marketing Solutions, an award-winning, full-service advertising and public relations agency, recently added three staff members to its client services team. As account managers, Lincoln Garrick, Blake Arrington and Michelle McMillan will represent several of the agency’s most prominent clients.
McMillan, a graduate of the University of Miami, brings “an effective combination of creative campaign strategy and dedication to excellence to her client relationships,” the agency said in a June 11 press release.
As a former marketing professional for various Florida-based companies, McMillan represents Marketing Solution’s clients in the telecommunications, education and tourism industries.
Garrick, an Illinois native, graduated from the University of Alaska Anchorage’s School of Business and is currently earning his master’s degree from Alaska Pacific University.
Garrick brings an extensive background in the education and nonprofit industries to the agency, where he works with clients in the healthcare and mining industries.
Arrington’s extensive experience in the tourism and marketing industries “translate easily to his new role as account manager for several of MSI’s tourism clients,” Marketing Solutions said.
After serving in various roles for Hawaiian Vacations, including marketing manager, he works closely with the agency’s clients in the tourism and transportation industries.
World records smashed for longest, highest ratio well A Schlumberger team recently helped Maersk Oil Qatar break 10 world records with an extended reach offshore well.
Schlumberger said its technology has now contributed to six of the top seven extended reach directional projects. The latest, drilled in the Al Shaheen field offshore Qatar, broke the previous record length by 2,000 feet, reaching a total depth of 40,320 feet. Total step-out distance from the surface location was 35,770, the company said.
The eight and a half inch horizontal section was drilled in two runs with Schlumberger’s PowerDrive X5 and PowerDrive Xceed RSS, and involved a company D&M team assigned to Maersk for more than a year.
Microseismic downhole monitoring goes live In a May 30 press release Schlumberger said its microseismic monitoring “provides direct 4-D information about stress changes in a reservoir by recording seismic waves generated during very small slip events.”
Relatively new to the oil and gas industry, the technology can “map the path of fractures from the wellbore into the reservoir as they are created by hydraulic stimulations. When used with recently developed real-time monitoring technology, microseismic information helps engineers optimize production and mitigate risk throughout the life of the field by optimizing hydraulic fracturing jobs on the fly,” Schlumberger said.
Previously, microseismic data from a produced or stimulated well was acquired using a tool positioned in a separate well often drilled for that purpose. Today, “an innovative technology that reduces noise associated with fluid flow allows this data to be obtained in active treatment or production wells,” the company said.
Used with the PS3 passive seismic sensing system, the Omega-Lok device couples geophones to the inside of casing as part of the well completion. It also decouples the sensors from the tubing, “minimizing completion noise passively while maximizing formation coupling. A hydraulically activated release mechanism is used to deploy the fit-for-purpose, low-noise-floor sensors,” reducing the noise by a factor of 100 compared with other tubing-conveyed monitoring methods, enabling “long-term monitoring without the cost of drilling offset monitor wells and exploits the full value of microseismic information on a reservoir-wide scale.”
Schlumberger acquires Integrated Exploration Systems Schlumberger said June 8 it has acquired Integrated Exploration Systems, the Aachen, Germany-based supplier of advanced petroleum systems modeling software and services for the exploration and production industry.
IES specialized in the modeling of the generation, migration and entrapment of oil and gas using PetroMod software, which Schlumberger said is used to “estimate undiscovered hydrocarbons in frontier basins,” mitigating exploration risks.
“The combination of IES expertise with WesternGeco and Schlumberger technology will … provide our customers with fully integrated exploration services,” said Dalton Boutte, WesternGeco president and Schlumberger vice president.
IES’s Aachen headquarters will become a Schlumberger Center of Excellence for Petroleum Systems Modeling.
Editor’s note: See full stories in the next edition of the Petroleum Directory, a magazine that is published twice a year by Petroleum News.
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