Published by the DTI Oil & Gas Directorate for the reservoir engineering and IOR community in the UK.
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Editorial

Thank you for viewing the second edition of the SHARP IOR eNewsletter.

We are particularly pleased with the response we received to the first issue and hope that you will find this issue equally as interesting. From the day the first issue went live (16 January 2002) until early May the newsletter has received just a shade under 20,000 hits (a hit is defined as a single action on the web server). The number of visits (times that a user has accessed the site) over the same period was 2000, with a reasonable level of activity over the whole period - see below for number of visits over two-week intervals. In all, over 1000 individuals have viewed the newsletter.

Apart for the Foreword, the most popular page was the article by BP on "Light Oil Recovery via Air Injection Technology". This article also attracted the most feedback - more on this under Feedback on a later page. I would particularly encourage you to send in your views, or any questions you may have, on any of the items in this edition as I would like to promote a lively discussion particularly on any of the more controversial issues. Send your responses by email to iornewsletter@senergyltd.com.

Tissa in his Introduction has replied to the Talking Point feature in Issue 1. Thanks to the DTI we have two talking points in this issue. Mervyn Grist has provided a summary of the currant status of UK oil reserves. It is comforting to know that the annual replacement of oil reserves is currently 90% and that the UK oil industry is going to see at least the older ones amongst us through to retirement! Jim Munns outlines the action the DTI is taking to extend the UK oil industry well into the current century. He also produces a very comforting statistic - it would appear that production to date represents less than 40% of maximum case ultimate recoverable reserves.

You will note that we have a lot more geophysics and geology related content in this edition compared to the first issue. We welcome this interest from the geoscience community and hope to feature more of these contributions in the future. The injection of carbon dioxide for both disposal and to improve oil recovery is an active area of research, and a number of contributions in this issue relate to this. In addition, the DTI will shortly be providing on its SHARP website (www.dti-sharp.co.uk), a new section to disseminate the results of work that it has commissioned in the area of CO2 IOR and sequestration.

Special thanks to Shell for providing the article on the current status of Brent depressurisation. We would particularly welcome further articles from operators on ongoing IOR projects.

The production of this newsletter like most other projects is a team effort. In addition to the sterling efforts made by Tissa at the DTI to solicit contributions, I am indebted to Pat Neve of RML who has worked jointly with me to edit this edition and to the IT team at RML (Chris Mcleod and Grant Cooper) who have constructed the web pages.

If you would like to submit an article or other contribution for inclusion in the next issue of the newsletter, please provide the text in a Word document. However, please do not embed any graphic objects in the Word document. Please send these as separate .jpg or another high quality graphic format files. Keeping the graphics files separate provides us with better originals than we are able to extract from .doc files. Ideally the .doc file and the graphics files should be zipped up into a single file prior to submission. Please keep contributions relatively short and make liberal use of hyperlinks to other material on your own web pages. The next edition of the IOR Newsletter is due to be published in September 2002. Contributions should be submitted to iornewsletter@senergyltd.com by 15 August 2002.

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