E&P announces 2008 Hart Meritorious Award for Engineering Excellence winners at Offshore Technology Conference

E&P magazine will recognize its 2008 Hart Meritorious Award for Engineering Excellence winners during the opening day of the Offshore Technology Conference at Reliant Park in Houston May 5, 2008.

E&P editor-in-chief Dr. William J. Pike said, “For 37 years Hart Energy Publishing and its predecessors have been honored to announce the winners of the Hart Meritorious Award for Engineering Excellence. This year’s winners continue the tradition of technical innovation that has allowed our industry to progress steadily in the face of more challenging reservoirs and more hostile operating environments.”

E&P’s April 2008 issue will showcase the winners.

The honorees are as follows:

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Exploration Technology: WesternGeco DSC Dynamic Spread Control technology was awarded for greatly improved repeatability of in-sea equipment positioning. Changes in reservoir fluid content and/or pressure can lead to changes in the seismic signal, so mapping differences between two vintages of seismic survey can indicate where hydrocarbon movement has taken place and identify as-yet untapped compartments.

For more information on WesternGeco’s DSC Dynamic Spread Control, click here.

Formation Evaluation: The InSite Azimuthal Deep Resistivity Sensor from Halliburton took honors for providing a new level of control in the guidance of horizontal wells through the reservoir. The InSite ADR^TM provides comprehensive mapping of formation layers above, below and around the sensor at multiple distances from the tool.

For more information about Halliburton’s InSite Azimuthal Deep Resistivity Sensor, click here.

Drill Bits: The Hughes Christensen EZCase^TM was recognized as a premium PDC drill bit mounted on the end of a section of casing or liner. This product is integral to the emerging casing and liner drilling market because of its unique design attributes and application versatility. This innovative technology allows the operator to combine the drilling and casing or liner running operations into one event.

For more information about Hughes Christensen’s EZCase^TM drill bit, click here.

Drilling Fluids: Halliburton’s diesel-based INTEGRADE^® system received an award as the first and only clay-free, lignite-free diesel-based fluid (DBF). The system helps onshore and zero-discharge operators achieve improved drilling performance while minimizing downhole losses and helps reduce environmental impact by reducing the consumption of diesel and additives.

For more information about Halliburton’s diesel-based INTEGRADE^® system, click here.

Drilling Tools: At Balance’s Dynamic Annular Pressure Control^TM system was recognized for revitalizing drilling in existing fields for continued development and opened new ones for exploration. It was the first automated system approved by the US Minerals Management Service (MMS) for managed-pressure drilling on a deepwater Gulf of Mexico platform and later received the MMS’ first-ever approval for static underbalanced drilling in deep water.

For more information about At Balance’s Dynamic Annular Pressure Control^TM system, click here.

Completions: The Complete^TM MST (multizone, single-trip) System from BJ Services garnered a nod for providing operators with an economical alternative to conventional “stack and pack” completion and stimulation. The system facilitates single-trip gravel- or frac-packed completions across multiple production intervals

Stimulation: BJ Services won again for the DuraLink^TM Spoolable Connector, which reliably splices two coiled tubing (CT) strings flush on the outside diameter of the tubing. In addition to being faster to install than a butt weld, the resulting joint has longer fatigue life. Being able to provide the correct size of CT avoids compromising job quality and represents a fundamental change of how CT operations are planned and conducted.

Production Technology: Judges selected technology developed by DES Operations Ltd. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Cameron), which works like a USB port for the subsea well. MARS^TM® (Multiple Application Re-Injection System) serves as a universal interface for all trees (topside and subsea) and enables any processing equipment to be retrofitted between the existing Christmas tree isolation barriers.

For more information on DES Operations’ Multiple Application Re-Injection System, click here.

 

IOR/EOR: Winning in this category was Baker Oil Tools’ EmuSOLV^TM well restoration treatment fluid, which contains acid, solvent and surfactants that break down common oilfield emulsions in situ and allow immiscible fluids to separate, leaving the formation sand in a water-wet state, which is optimum for oil and gas production.

For more information about Baker Oil Tools’ EmuSOLV^TM well restoration treatment fluid, click here.

Remediation: Schlumberger received an award for FUTUR active-set cement, a responsive cement blend with intrinsic self healing properties. FUTUR active set cement technology is automatically activated upon contact with hydrocarbons. In the event of cement integrity compromise, FUTUR activates within hours to seal the pathways.

For more information about Schlumberger’s FUTUR active-set cement, click here.

Intelligent systems and Components: There was a tie in this category. Halliburton received an award for its Swellpacker^TM Cable System, an annular isolation cable feed-through packer for both openhole and cased hole completions that completely eliminates the requirement to cut, strip and splice both control and communication lines for the feed-through process. BJ Services’ SHARP^TM intelligent completion system, an acronym for Selective Hydraulic Actuated Remote Production, was honored due to its multitude of successful implementations in deepwater fields around the world, confirming the SHARP^TM well system can reliably and economically perform multiple completions and selective production changes over the lifetime of a well.

For more information on Halliburton’s Swellpacker^TM Cable System, click here.

For more information on BJ Services’ SHARP^TM intelligent completion system, click here.