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Articles in Oct, 2005 issue of World Oil

• Schlumberger signed a joint marketing agreement with Sense Intellifield to provide customers with design and installation of real-time drilling operation centers
• OceanWorks International, Inc
• Kansas looks at rig blast
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• Water damage
  by Victor Schmidt
• Shaping the peak of world oil production: the bell curve has a sharp crest, and you can't see it coming
  by Robert L. Hirsch
• EV Offshore Ltd
• Eni hit by cost over-runs at Kashagan
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• Codifying fracture closure stress and lost returns practices: rock mechanics concept increases integrity by widening fractures
  by Fred E. Dupriest
• Boots & Coots International Well Control
• Compagnie Generale de Geophysique has acquired 6.1 million shares of Exploration Resources ASA, or about 92% of issued shares
• Enventure Global Technology, developer of Solid Expandable Tubular technology, has established a UK operation
• Devon Energy Corp
• Meetings & events
• Warmth hits North Slope
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• TRIZ and drilling
  by Les Skinner
• Heterogeneity quantification, fine-scale layering derived from image logs and cores: fine-scale layering results in an improved static geological model that, in turn, improves reservoir simulation in a large oil field offshore Abu Dhabi
  by Hamad Bu Al-Rougha
• Ernst & Young Energy Center
• Logging while drilling tool
• Newfoundland accounts for 12% of Canadian oil
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• Western Australian gas field goes onstream
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• Small-scale reservoir modeling tool optimizes recovery offshore Norway: modeling of small-scale bedding geometries improves recovery estimates in Norwegian oil fields, yielding added value of at least 16 million barrels
  by Carsten Elfenbein
• Technip is combining its existing North American offshore-upstream and onshore-downstream businesses into a new organization called Technip USA
• Sand monitor
• OPEC says demand dulled by high product prices
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• Venezuelan transactions
  by Mayra Rodriguez Valladares
• BJ Services Well Services Division
• PSL Energy Services Ltd
• Industry at a glance
• Cement assurance tool
• Emerson Process Management was named the 2005 Process Control & Industrial Automation Company of the Year by Frost & Sullivan
• Heavy duty hydraulic ROVs
• Continuous duty actuators
• OPEC uses almost 20% more rigs in 2004
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• UK chancellor warned about North Sea
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• Compressible cement compositions improve isolation: an inexpensive cement additive has proven highly effective over many years and wells in preventing fluid migration, even in Russia's geologically difficult fields
  by Anatoly A. Klyusov
• Enerplus Resources Fund
• The Louisiana State University School of the Coast and Environment has received funding from the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration for a project entitled "Using Industrial, Deepwater, Remotely Operated Vehicles to Census Planktonic Organisms."
• J. Ray McDermott, S.A., a subsidiary of McDermott International, and Keppel FELS Ltd. will form a new joint venture company, to be named FloaTEC, LLC, to provide deepwater and ultradeepwater oil and gas development solutions
• Hurricane Katrina takes toll on infrastructure
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• Hurricane Rita
  by Victor Schmidt
• Utilization of rig fleet tightens significantly: significant gains were made in US and Canadian land fleet sizes and utilization, spurring rig construction. Tracked for the first time, international markets saw growth in utilization, while the global offs
  by Steve Berkman
• Superior Energy Services
• EnCana has reached an agreement to sell all of its shares in subsidiaries that have oil and pipeline interests in Ecuador to Andes Petroleum Co., a joint venture of Chinese petroleum companies, for about US$1.42 billion in cash
• Norwegian industry sweats new regime
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• Well integrity management tool
• Saudi crown prince expresses worry over high prices
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• Ecuador struggles
  by Mayra Rodriguez Valladares
• Airlift pumping reduces costs, boosts revenue in Illinois stripper wells: frequent failures, lost output and high costs have been cut significantly by replacing conventional rod pumping with an airlift pumping system in Illinois basin wells
  by Dennis R. Swager
• Vam Pts
• Opinion
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• Industry's 100-year storm standards may have to be revised
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• MMS fees rise
  by Victor Schmidt
• Produced-water chemical treatments enable environmental compliance: many chemical types can produce similar results
  by Ron Bosch
• Landmark
• Real-time geosteering captures heavy oil sands value: Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. and Halliburton control horizontal wellbore placement with real-time geosteering
  by Carmen Lee
• Well control model
• The weirdest thing that I know
  by Perry A. Fischer
• Sand control tubulars
• ONGC secures Bombay High North insurance claim
  by Kurt S. Abraham
• Venezuelan influence grows
  by Mayra Rodriguez Valladares
• Comparing oil-in-water measurement: varying government regulations and measurement methods call for standardization
  by Colin C. Tyrie
• AnTech Ltd
• Quantum Drilling Motors and Directional Services, an Oklahoma City-based oil and gas services provider, has acquired the shock absorber inventory and design drawings of the Security DBS Drill Bits product service line of Halliburton's Energy Services Grou
• Vile photons
  by Perry A. Fischer
• Gas custody transfer meter