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Replacement Candidates for David Merkel's Portfolio: From AA to ZZ
David Merkel submits: Here is my initial list of replacement candidates for the third quarter 2008 portfolio reshaping: AA ACMR ACS ACXM ADP AEM AEO AET ...
Mid-Caps Are Outperforming Large- and Small-Caps
Alan Brochstein, CFA submits: Though it has more exposure to Financials and less to Energy relative to the S&P 500, the S&P 400 Mid-Cap index is significantly outperforming the Large-Cap index thus far QTD and YTD. Curiously, it is also outperforming the S&P 600 Small-Cap index as well. ...
IEZ: Oil Equipment and Services Profits Dependent on Rising Crude Prices
Don Dion submits: With oil prices romping to record highs almost daily, pressure is mounting for increased production. Fields once deemed too costly to operate are suddenly in demand, as are new technologies to extract oil out of difficult places and materials. The U.S. government...
Mid-Year Picks and Pans From Barron's Roundtable
Barron's magazine returns to its 11 Roundtable participants, who weigh-in with their mid-year thoughts, and updated stock picks see parts II and III. Bill Gross Tepid growth should keep the Fed from hiking rates despite relatively high inflation. Foreign reserves, bolstered by another $500B in...
Black Gold or Yellow Gold?
Michael Fitzsimmons submits: Take your pick. Either one is going to make you money. Oil was up over $10 on Thursday and Friday, setting records for both its high price and its US dollar move. In response, the US stock market tanked on Friday and the S&P500 is now down...
Will Smith & W-H Energy Merger Imperil $4.4 Billion Drilling Fluids Venture?
Oilfield service provider Smith International, in a total transaction valued at approximately $3.2 billion, is acquiring W-H Energy Services, a supplier of petroleum drilling tools with leading-edge technology in directional drilling. Although a win-win for both companies, concerns are being expressed that the deal would put at risk an existing...
Schlumberger Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Schlumberger Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Schlumberger Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Schlumberger Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Schlumberger Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Schlumberger Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Schlumberger Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Schlumberger Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Brownfields - Tools to Manage Challenges
Brownfield's are defined as mature oil and gas fields in a state of declining production or reaching the end of their productive lives. They are typically over 30 years old. So why worry about them? The reason is they account for 67 to 72 percent of world production and, therefore,...
Dynamic Production Operations
Around the world, oil and gas operators large and small are impacting their profitability by improving the efficiency and effectiveness of their operational processes. They are challenged with increasing production and reducing operational costs, while meeting goals for financial revenue, cash flow and profitability. Long-term, they must improve reservoir recovery...
Rapid Uncertainty Quantification Is Now Possible Thanks to IBM DCCoD, ECLIPSE and COUGAR
IBM and Schlumberger Information Solutions SIS partner to bring one leading-edge reservoir engineering technology, which utilizes best-in-class, high-performance computing, in a secure on-demand environment. Applications, such as COUGAR reservoir uncertainty analysis tool, have been developed to enhance the understanding of uncertainty through the application of risk and sensitivity analyses. However,...
Subsea Production Assurance
The excessive expense and risk of subsea intervention have forced the industry to accept diminished performance and shortened life from subsea wells and is costing an estimated USD 10 billion in gross revenue each year. The continuous closed-loop system combines real-time data with scalable, integrated, pore-to-process systems to enable the...
The Living Business Plan - A Timely Adaptation of Business Strategies to New Information
In today's rigorously competitive business environment, every step taken by an oil and gas firm must be measured in terms of value. Every decision needs to contribute to the ultimate goal of increasing company value and shareholder returns. Current advances in computing power, communications technology, software and connectivity offer tremendous...
Brownfields
Brownfields?defined as mature fields in a state of declining production or reaching the end of their productive life?are regarded as potential "fountains of youth." In an industry climate marked by growing demand, ever-greater importance is placed on enhancing and prolonging an asset's productive maturity, maximizing its declining productivity, and postponing...
Unconventional Gas
In an era of declining production and increasing demand, economically producing gas from unconventional sources is the next level of the fossil-fuel recovery challenge. The mammoth volume and long-term potential of coal bed methane CBM, tight gas, and hydrate resources are driving technical progress. Attractive gas prices in North America...
National Data Repository: The Tool to Preserve and Effectively Promote the National E&P Data Heritage
The oil and gas industry is a high-risk arena. Its players operate within a turbulent market environment marked by changing commodity prices, high-stake investments and fluctuating technological, business and political influences. To secure international investment in their country's petroleum industry, national oil companies and government agencies are faced with the...
Imaging Technologies Reduce Risks
The Texas and Louisiana Outer Continental Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico has reemerged as an active area for increased exploration as well as continued exploitation of existing producing assets. Old fields are being reworked and deeper gas wells are being planned. With deep gas exploration comes, a set of...
Dual-esp Completion Optimizes Production and NPV in Ecuador
Occidental Petroleum wanted to produce separate high-rate zones in a single well in Ecuador to maximize the net present value NPV of the project. The reservoirs in this area produce large volumes of fluid with a low gas-oil ratio, which is an ideal completion scenario for an electric submersible pump...
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