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The second of Nord Stream 2’s twin pipelines is scheduled for completion in August, with the first line having been finished and prepped for filling earlier this month. Politically, Nord Stream 2 has been nothing less than a high-stakes poker game among nations to achieve geopolitical goals.
Four licenses are awarded to seven oil companies as this round sees less interest than previous ones.
The oilfield service giant said its plans to decarbonize are inclusive of Scope 3 emissions, or the emissions generated when customers use its technologies.
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The midstream operators plan to have the CO2 pipeline network operational as soon as 2025 and flowing at full stream by 2027. -
Tropical storms severely affect oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico, especially during the storm season from June to December. Offshore well managers often need to shut down operations and evacuate the facility because of storm alerts. The purpose of this paper is to determine the effect of storms on production by quantifying metrics such as downtime days and… -
The organizers of SPE Offshore Europe 2021 have announced that the show’s face-to-face event is moving to 1–4 February 2022 at P&J Live, Aberdeen, and the conference will be held virtually 7–10 September 2021. -
Norway appears to be taking a dual approach to energy transition. In its just-released energy white paper, the Norwegian government says it is committed to producing renewable energy and bolstering its power grid but isn’t willing to halt development of its oil and gas resources.
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The roadmap presented by the International Energy Agency requires extreme measures that could be career changing for petroleum engineers.
As European majors push hard and fast to decarbonize energy and move into new and renewable sources, US majors are focusing on cleaner, more efficient hydrocarbons. Which approach and which companies will gain the upper hand?
It won’t happen overnight, but a growing number of US shale players are taking important steps to bring more automation and stage-level decision making to the hydraulic fracturing process in tight reservoirs.
“What is the drilling state” has become an important question among data scientists and automation experts. The simplest definition of a complicated concept is that it is what the driller is doing at the time.
A growing volume of free data and reports from US shale fracturing test sites is available, with more on the way.
The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) announced today that the two organizations are exploring the possibility of becoming one.
SPYDR, MetaRock team up with Pioneer Natural Resources for a pilot program in the Permian Basin to test real-time fluid monitoring.
With the world transitioning to a lower-carbon future, oil and gas firms face a conundrum: Should they stay in the oil patch or head for greener pastures?
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Case studies demonstrate how an autonomous outflow-control device prevents growth and excessive fluid injection into thief/fracture zones and maintains a balanced or prescribed injection distribution. -
Can a camera on the drill floor, or one on a mobile phone, measure what is going on during drilling or evaluate drill-bit wear more consistently than a human? -
When Hess, Halliburton, and Nabors sat down to create a single plan to stream on the driller’s display, they needed to work out a lot of differences, including the definition of the word activity. -
Green hydrogen is currently dominating the energy transition conversation. But will it dominate the future market for clean energy?
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Bill Gates’ TerraPower teams with Warren Buffett’s PacifiCorp to demonstrate the viability of carbon-free SMRs in Wyoming. -
As with large-scale carbon-capture projects in Europe and in the US, the Canadian oil companies say they will need various forms of government support to help realize the goals of the Paris Agreement.
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Texas-based independent exploration and production company Talos Energy and UK-based clean energy group Storegga Geotechnologies have formed an exclusive joint venture to source, evaluate, and develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects along the US Gulf Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico. Areas under consideration include state and federal waters offshore Texas, L…
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Petrolern has received a $1.15-million grant from the US Department of Energy to develop and commercialize its technology that models in-situ stresses by using available data.
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The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate and Equinor have announced the biggest discovery so far this year on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Three wildcat wells drilled in the Blasto prospect near the Fram field confirmed the find and were then permanently plugged and abandoned.
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Algorithms are taking over the world, or so we are led to believe, given their growing pervasiveness in multiple fields of human endeavor such as consumer marketing, finance, design and manufacturing, health care, politics, and sports. The focus of this article is to examine where things stand in regard to the application of these techniques for managing subsurface en…
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