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EXPLORATION
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OIL & GAS REVIEW
VOLUME 6 ISSUE II
Editorial
Editor’s note
Managing Editor
Nigel Lloyd
A pleasure I have as Managing Editor of Exploration and Production – The Oil & Gas Review is the
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chance to thank those who have helped with putting this edition together. Along with the editorial
advisory board and media partners, I would like to thank all of our authors for their contributions and
Sub-editorial Manager
Claire Dunn co-operation with us during the editorial process.
Sub-editors
Andrew McCulloch
To highlight just a few: Barry Russell, as President of the Independent Petroleum Association of
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America (IPAA), discusses the future of the industry; both the Canadian Energy Research Institute
Operations
(CERI) and the Canadian Heavy Oil Association (CHOA) outline the important activities taking place in
Head of Design Canada’s oilsands industry; and as far as the geosciences sector is concerned, we have submissions
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from BP, Chevron, Fugro Geoconsulting and Shell in a special in-depth feature.
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Miriam Oppenheim
We continue to covet input from our readers. If you have not shared your input, please take the time
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to do so as you read this issue.
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Nigel Lloyd, Managing Editor
Advisory Panel Touch Briefings wishes to thank the organisations below for their assistance
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President, American Association of Perdido Development:
Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
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Pascagoula, US.
Per Gerhard Grini
Manager, OG21 Secretariat
Shell and its joint
Ray Hobbs
venture partners, BP
Immediate Past Chairman, and Chevron, will
Offshore Engineering Society
develop the Great White, Tobago and Silvertip
(Institution of Civil Engineers)
fields via the Perdido Regional Development Host.
Galen Cobb
Chairman, Petroleum Equipment
Perdido in the Gulf of Mexico is one of the most
Suppliers Association (PESA)
challenging deepwater projects. Perdido is in a
water depth of some 2,380 metres and will have
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