Industry Highlight: Internet-Based F.O.A.M Model Available Through Baker Petrolite
Baker Petrolite has developed an Internet-based F.O.A.M. Model available on BakerHughesDirect.com to those who have completed the training program.This tool can be used to improve gas well productivity by identifying when reservoir fluids begin to accumulate and when foamer products can be helpful. It can also be used to understand the effect of gas lift and help size tubing. Baker Petrolite has used the model to provide recommendations to over 40 companies on more than 100 wells.

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PTTC Highlight:

—Live Webcast: "The Other 30% Recovery Factor," 10:30 am CST, Fri, Dec. 9
—Now Available: Illinois Basin Out of Print/Older Publications
—AAPG Eastern Section: Meeting Abstracts Since 1996

In lieu of our normal trivia question, PTTC is taking this opportunity to alert history buffs of an event on April 20-23, 2006 in Wichita—the International Oil History Symposium. Oil and gas museum directors, educators and oilfield historians will meet to share strategies and educational resources for increasing public awareness of the history of the E&P industry. Co-hosted by the Petroleum History Institute, Oil City, Pa., and American Oil & Gas Historical Society, Washington, DC, the three-day program includes a guided tour of the Frontier Oil Refinery in El Dorado, and motor tour of Kansas oilfields by the Kansas Geological Survey.