February 2023 Issue

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These are the papers synopsized in JPT this month. They are available to only SPE members through 31 March 2023. There are also links to them at the bottom of each related synopsis.

Drilling Automation and Innovation

Autonomous Directional-Drilling Planning and Execution Using an Industry 4.0 Platform

Safer and Faster Drilling Through AI-Driven Permanent Cuttings Monitoring: An Operator's Approach

Well Testing

Diagnostic Plots of Pressure-Transient, Rate-Transient, and Diagnostic Fracture Injection/Falloff Tests

Effective Use of Surveillance To Optimize the Development Plan for a Deepwater Reservoir

Not Measured, Not Improved: Agile Three-Phase Well-Flow Measurement and Well-Testing Unit

Formation Evaluation

A New Pore-Pressure-Prediction Model for Naturally Fractured Shales and Stacked Plays: The Effect of Active Hydrocarbon Generation—A Powder River Basin Case Study

Delaware Basin Wolfcamp Formation Maturation and Post-Permian Basin Evolution Based on 2D Restorations and Basin Modeling

Defining Heterogeneity and Compartmentalization Predictions of Minor Reservoirs in Fluvial Environments: Geological and Dynamic Context

Seismic

4D Seismic in Subsurface CO₂Plume Monitoring: Why It Matters

Using Active and Passive Near-Field Hydrophones To Image the Near-Surface in Ultrashallow Waters Offshore Abu Dhabi.