April 2025 Issue

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These are the papers synopsized in JPT this month. They are available to only SPE members through 31 May 2025. There are also links to them at the bottom of each related synopsis.

JPT Synopses April 2025

Natural Gas Processing and Handling

Reducing Greenhouse-Gas Emissions by Using Zero-Flare Technology To Enhance Sustainability

Carbon-Capture Options for Gas-Processing Facilities

Completions

Aligning Upstream Operations With Sustainable Technology: High-Power Lasers

Heavy Oil

Case Study: Performance Analysis of Subsurface Safety Valve in Steam-Injection Wells for Thermally Assisted GOGD Heavy Oil Field

Modeling Phase Behavior of Solvents/Water/Heavy Oil Systems Under Reservoir Conditions With the PC-SAFT Equation of State

Scrutinization and Evaluation of Heavy Sludge Formation and In-Situ Tar-Mat Problems Based on Robust Integrated PVT and Openhole Logging Approach: A Case Study of an Oil Field in Pakistan

History Matching and Forecasting

Efficacy Gain From a Deep-Neural-Network-Based History-Matching Workflow

A Deep-Learning-Based Reservoir Surrogate for Performance Forecast and Nonlinearly Constrained Life-Cycle Production Optimization Under Geological Uncertainty

A New Semi-Iterative Well-Test Matching Method Based on Featured Points for Homogeneous Reservoir.