Industry
Highlight:
Baker Oil Tools PathMAKERTM Formation Mill
A recent winner of
World Oil's Award for "Best Drilling
Technology," the PathMAKERTM is designed to mill a full gauge window
and rat hole in a variety of hard and abrasive conditions. In a recent Dinwiddy
(dolomite sandstone, compressive strength 25-30 kpsi) it cut a 12-foot window
and another 10 foot of open hole in 7 hours. Overall window cutting operations
took one day, compared to three days with prior practices.
DOE
Highlight:
GEMINI Fully Operational
The GEMINI (Geo-Engineering Modeling through Internet information) is an
interactive, integrated website. It contains 11 integrated tools and databases,
including among others basic and advanced log analysis, volumetrics, spatial
analysis and visualization. For natural gas exploration, GEMINI uses
pattern-recognition capabilities to look at logs to discover zones that may been
bypassed. Developed by the Kansas Geological Survey with funding support from
DOE, Kansas, and several producers, total development cost over three years has
been $1.17 million.
PTTC
Highlight: Thankful for you,
our audience, PTTC exists to serve
individuals involved in the domestic E&P industry, providing technology-related
information and connecting people so that informed technology decisions can be
made quickly. We thought you would appreciate knowing who you are (based on PTTC
Network News distribution). 60% are from the E&P (private world). Among those,
58% represent independents. Consultants and service/supply represent the next
largest sectors.
Trivia
Question:
The Nellie Johnstone No. 1, discovered in April 1898 in Bartlesville, Okla., is
recognized as Oklahoma's first "commercial" well.
When and where was the first actual well that produced oil in Oklahoma's Indian
Territory drilled?
Trivia Answer:
In 1859, Lewis Ross, a brother of Cherokee chief John Ross, found a pocket of
oil that
produced 10 bopd for nearly a year while
drilling for salt water on the Grand River near Salina in what is now Mayes
County, Oklahoma. Acknowledgement:
American Oil and Gas Historical Society.
