Editorial
OG-MRP IOR Views is edited on behalf of ERDU-LED at DTI by David Hughes (david.hughes@senergyltd.com) and Irfan Sami (irfan.sami@senergyltd.com) of Senergy Ltd in Aberdeen.
Welcome
We’re back! Welcome to Issue 13 of OG-MRP IOR Views. Let’s hope it’s not unlucky.
Thank you to the individual authors who have contributed articles. We are always looking for new articles - the next issue is scheduled for around the middle of 2007. If you have or are able to write an article that you think will be of interest to IOR Views readers please let us know (david.hughes@senergyltd.com or irfan.sami@senergyltd.com). Instructions for authors can be found on the IOR Views home page.
New in This Issue
In this issue we have articles on the monitoring of CO2 during EOR and storage projects from the University of Calgary, the possibilities of implementing MEOR in Danish chalk reservoirs from Aalborg University Esbjerg, and developments in downhole gas compression from Corac. From BGS we have an article on the industrial application of research results from the ocean margins LINK programme and from Senergy a summary of the latest news on CO2 EOR and storage in the UK.
The ‘Talking Point’ is kindly contributed by Euan Mearns, editor of ‘The Oil Drum’ website, on the architecture of UK offshore oil production in relation to future production forecasts. Accurate forecasting is important at a time when the UK is beginning to loose its self sufficiency in oil. Please provide your thoughts on this by using the feedback box at the end of the article.
We also have news on the latest initiatives from the public sector funding bodies (ITF, NERC, EPSRC) and reports on recent EOR and CO2 conferences. Under ‘People and Projects’ there is a review of Al Gore’s documentary on climate change ‘An Inconvenient Truth’.
We welcome your views on any of the articles - please submit your feedback using the box provided. For matters not directly related to any individual article use the feedback box at the bottom of this Editorial.
Statistics Relating to Issue 12
We average around 5000 visits a month. Please note that the direct access web address of the site is now http://ior.senergyltd.com. If you forget this, we are in fact part of the DTI OG-MRP (Maximising Recovery Programme) which has its main web address at http://www.og-mrp.com and you can link to us from there (‘IOR Views’ button on right hand side of home page). There is also a companion ‘Heavy Oil Matters’ web site.
The table below shows the ten most popular articles since the launch of the last issue (Issue 12) in August 2006. This list includes popular articles from earlier issues.
Acknowledgements
David and Irfan would like to thank Peter Haile and John Fraser at DTI for their help in compiling this issue of IOR Views. Thanks also to Chris McLeod in the IT department at Senergy for his efforts constructing the webpages and maintaining the site.