98-09_index.html (Sep-1998)

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September 1998 Vol. 219 No. 9

	Horizontal, underbalanced wells yield high rates in Colombia Scott C. Cooper and Robert L. "Bob" Cuthbertson In the Middle Magdalena Valley, a U.S. independent drilled the country’s first two horizontal wells using underbalanced techniques
	Interpretation of thin beds using stratal surfaces Bob A. Hardage and Randy L. Remington When two well-defined seismic surfaces are conformal and separated by a uniform thickness, extrapolation into thin beds that lie between them can reveal subtle details
	Comment Information you might find useful on a variety of "timely" topics
	Drilling Progress on Halliburton / Shell's JV on developing expandable casing
	Editorial News on oil prices, mostly bad; Billy Bob comments on the BP-Amoco merger
	Exploration Mere megabytes don't cut it any more; How to preserve that seismic data
	International Companies face the challenge of balancing age groups in the workforce
	Offshore Anadarko claims sub-salt discovery; Global's SCORE shows drilling decline
	Production Phillips' Ekofisk redevelopment; Expandable sand screen; API Y2K survey
	Washington New energy secretary faces big job; Oil royalty calculation still in dispute