Industry Highlight: CBM Production Logging
Low gas flow rates in CBM wells challenges production logging technology. Pure Energy Services Ltd.'s new production logging system provides high resolution flow data in extremely low gas flow conditions. Cardinal Surveys Company reports CBM production logging success (last month's featured service) using its Annulus Trac III log.

DOE Highlight: Digital Play Portfolio for Permian Basin
Developed as part of DOE's PUMP (Preferred Upstream Management Practices Program), this new digital play portfolio developed by Texas's Bureau of Economic Geology and New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources groups all 1,339 reservoirs in the Permian Basin with cumulative oil production greater than 1 million barrels into 32 oil plays. This updates and expands the 1983 Atlas of Major Texas Oil Reservoirs. The draft final report to DOE, play maps, and reservoir database are available online.

Open Solicitation: Microhole Technology Development II  Applications Due - October 6, 2004
Applications sought for Field Demonstration, Advanced Monobore Concept, Microhole Coiled Tube Bottom Hole Assemblies, Microhole Completion and Production Equipment

PTTC Highlight: Presentations from Selected PTTC Workshops Available Online
Texas:  From Matrix to Market, What You Don't Know Can Hurt You (July 28) w Core Labs 
West Coast: Case Studies of Power Consumption Reduction in California Oilfields (May 27)

Trivia Question:   In what year was the first "gusher" drilled in California, and what was the well name and producing area?

Trivia Answer: Drilled by Hardison and Stewart Oil Company (predecessor to Union Oil Company of California), the Adams No. 16 in Adams County in the Ventura Basin spouted oil over the top in 1888. This website describes several additional early gushers in California.