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Each year during its Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, SPE honors members whose outstanding contributions to SPE and the petroleum industry merit special distinction. Recipients will be recognized at the Annual Awards Banquet on Tuesday, 4 October.
Injecting gas plus water proved more effective and less costly
than gas-only injection in the Bakken.
In this first part of a two-part series, we look at how the artificial-lift sector has adapted to producing unconventional resources. The second part of the series to publish in November will crack open the lift toolbox to take a deeper look at the techniques and technologies under development or new to the market.
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Houston-based startup Cemvita Factory uses its hydrogen-producing microbes downhole to considerably lower the cost of hydrogen production. -
Every year, SPE recognizes members who have made an exceptional effort to ensure the technical excellence of the Society’s peer-reviewed journals. For their contributions, the following individuals are recipients of the 2022 Outstanding Technical Reviewer Award.
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The Cypre offshore gas project announcement comes the day after the energy company renewed its supply contract with the country’s national gas company.
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After serving for more than 21 years, Mark Rubin, CEO and executive vice president of SPE, will step down from his role after the end of March 2023. -
Just as you would do a project “look-back” to identify what could have been handled differently or better, it seems appropriate to look back at the recent election process and what can help us build a better SPE future. -
To help us identify future directions, the Board of Directors is currently undertaking a strategic planning process. We want to hear from you what's important for us to consider. -
SPE’s financial results were bleak during the pandemic; however, the resurgence in revenue from in-person events is an encouraging indicator for SPE's financial strength as a professional organization.
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Founded by former analytics experts for a large US independent, Xecta Digital Labs is proposing a new analysis method for horizontal wells. Adopting it means turning the page on some old habits. -
Oil and gas operators around the globe are targeting reductions in offshore carbon emissions, and facilities electrification is the key that will help them meet their goals. -
When Occidental Resources switched to bigger fracture designs to produce more oil, it produced more water as well. Based on research done since, they cannot have one without the other, and at the oil prices recently seen, that’s OK. -
An automated detection application helped identify stringers early for an operator of a mature field in the North Sea while drilling multilateral wells through reservoir sections containing hard calcite stringers interspersed in sand formations with low unconfined compressive strength. The application guided drilling decisions that minimized invisible lost time and sh…
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Texas and Louisiana are stepping up efforts to assume regulatory authority for an emerging wave of carbon capture and storage projects.
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The CStore1 project aims to prove that floating storage and injection facilities are competitive with pipelines and fixed offshore infrastructure.
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Glynn Williams, CEO of Silixa, offers his take on the role fiber-optic technology will play in the rise of CO2 storage and on the firm’s progress in the tight-rock sector.
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The ATCE Startup Village is a partnership between SPE and the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship at Rice University. Find out which firms took this year's top honors during the annual competition.
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While small modular reactors open doors to affordable, carbon-free nuclear power, they also raise new questions over waste disposal.
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New Fortress Energy again taps the engineering giant for one of its modular LNG plants, this one using fixed platforms.
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