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

1. Introduction
2. Editorial
3. People & Projects
   1. ECL - Subsurface Engineering Business Unit of AEA Technology acquired by ECL (Exploration Consultants Group, plc)
   2. RML - Evidence for Success - Demonstrable Field Evidence for Increased Recovery From the Prudhoe Bay Miscible Gas Project
4. Research & Development
   1. Public Sector Funded Bodies
      1. Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF)
      2. DTI Oil and Gas Licensing, Exploration and Development Branch (OGLED)
      3. DTI Oil and Gas Industry Development Branch (OGID)
      4. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
      5. Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
   2. Universities
      1. Strathclyde - Plasma-Channel Drilling for Use in the Oil and Gas Industry
      2. Heriot Watt - Reservoir Fluid Studies
      3. Loughborough - The Separation of Oil Drops from Water Using Micro-Slits
   3. Commercial Technology Providers (Inc. SMEs)
      1. BGS - The Use of Frequency-Dependent Anisotropy for Improved Fracture Characterisation
      2. ECL - A New Flow-Based Cut-Off Criterion For Permeability In Dry Gas Reservoirs
      3. RML - MEOR - Reservoir Engineering Design Principles
5. Articles
   1. DTI - A Post-Well Analysis of Recent Years Exploration Drilling in the Atlantic Margin
   2. ECL - Gas Condensate Well Productivity
   3. Heriot Watt - Depressurisation of Waterflooded Reservoirs – Results From Oil-Wet and Mixed-Wettability Micromodels
   4. HOT/Veritas - Reservoir Simulation of IOR Techniques Using SURE
6. Talking Point
   1. Edinburgh - Britain's Oil and Gas: What We Stand To Lose
7. CO2
   1. Session on CO₂ Sequestration and the Use of CO₂ to Improve Oil Recovery at the DTI's IOR Research Dissemination Seminar, 25 June 2002
   2. ECL - Potential UKCS CO2 Retention Capacity from IOR Projects
   3. ECL - Subsurface Issues for CO2 Flooding of UKCS Reservoirs
   4. CMG - CO2 Sequestration: Modelling Enhanced Coal Bed Methane Production and Trapping in Sedimentary Basins
8. Past Events
   1. DTI IOR Research Dissemination Seminar, 25th June 2002, Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre
   2. IEA EOR Collaborative Agreement – 23rd Annual Workshop and Symposium Caracas, Venezuela 8-11 September 2002
9. Future Events
   1. EUROPEC 2002, 29-31 October 2002, Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre - "Technology for Tomorrow's Reservoirs" Organised by Society of Petroleum Engineers

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