Industry Highlight:
Hart’s 2006 Meritorious Engineering Awards
Just some of the winners of Hart’s 2006 Meritorious
Engineering Awards are listed below. Readers are encouraged to view
them all to see just which technology might fit their application.
Exploration, Individual Equipment:
Schlumberger’s QuickSilver Probe
reduces time for obtaining uncontaminated formation fluid samples.
Subsurface Characterization, System:
Halliburton’s Chi Modeling System
generates accurate synthetic “triple-combo” openhole logs from
cased-hole pulsed neutron capture (PNC) logs and triple-combo logs
from an offset well.
Wellbore Construction, Individual Equipment:
Reed Hycalog’s Raptor Thermostable
PDC bit wears less in high temperatures. Among other things,
this means higher RPMs can be used in abrasive formations.
Completions Individual, Equipment:
Easywell’s Swellpacker, which
has no moving parts, swells and seals the annulus around a pipe in
cased and open holes.
Production Systems, Surface
Controls for Intelligent Well:
Baker Oil Tool’s InForce intelligent well
system.
DOE Highlight:
New Solicitation Focusing on CO2 Capture from
Power Plants
For many areas of the U.S., anthropogenic CO2 is the
only viable option for CO2 flooding and capturing CO2 from power
plants is a primary option, but technology needs further
development. The aim of CO2 capture research is to produce a
CO2-rich stream at pressure. The research is categorized into three
pathways: postcombustion, pre-combustion, and oxyfuels. Part of
DOE's R&D program is directed at "novel" system concepts that could
provide a significant leap ahead. Qualifying technologies need to
demonstrate at least 90% CO2 capture. Applications are sought in
three areas of interest:
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Breakthrough Approaches to Carbon Dioxide and Separation
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Continued Development of Direct CO2 Capture and Separation
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Field Testing of CO2 Capture and Separation Technologies
