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The article discusses the impact of fracturing treatments on well productivity in unconventional reservoirs wherein the production engineers understand the efficacy of well pressures, rates, and return-fluid composition.

The article reports on the carbon clusters technology being developed at Rice University in Houston, Texas. This novel technology involves the injection of hundreds of millions of clusters known as "nanoreporters" into deep underground reservoirs to determine the presence of oil reserves. The research project is funded by the Big Oil majors such as BP, ConocoPhillips and Royal Dutch Shell.

The article discusses the significance of subsea processing for the oil and gas industry. It is inferred that subsea processing or treating the production flow at the seabed has opened vast opportunities to more-remote oil and gas reservoirs around the world. Likewise, it notes that subsea processing has continued to evolve into the future with project developments focusing on the use of gas/liquid separation and oil/water separation technologies.

The article deals with the modeling of Simian Field project located in the offshore West Delta Deep Marine Concession of the Nile River Delta in Egypt. The project is currently at pre-development stage in which a fully integrated multi-disciplined team approach and software have been developed and used to create a detailed reservoir model for this field. Leading edge seismic processing and interpretation, together with deterministic and stochastic geological model-building techniques have been used in creating the structural and facies elements of the model.

The article attempts to examine the advancement of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) logging for complex-lithology formations. The reservoir formation in this study exhibits a weak permeability and porosity correlation. It reveals that although it is more challenging to derive petrophysical parameters from NMR logs in complex lithology formations, the examples presented demonstrate that the difficulties can be overcome by implementing accurate information and using it with modified or alternative interpretation models and equations.

The article reports that the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority has recorded another successful tunnel-boring operation, its fifth in 20 years. The latest is a 2.1-mile-long storage tunnel, part of a 15-year combined-sewer-overflow program totaling $850 million. The tunnel runs from Conley Terminal to near the Bayside Exposition Center and will hold 19-million gallons. The tunnel was designed by Parsons Brinckerhoff/ Metcalf & Eddy and built by the joint venture of Shank/Balfour Beatty/ Barletta.