February 2025 Issue

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

JPT Synopses February 2025

Drilling Automation and Innovation

Real-Time Stick/Slip Mitigation Using Combined Machine-Learning and Physics-Based Techniques

Methodology for Preventing Drillstring Fatigue and Failure in Deep Well With Large Shallow Dogleg

Well Construction in the Era of Big Data: It's Not Data Analytics, It's Engineering With Data

Well Testing

Driving Deep Transient Testing With a Complete Digital Workflow: A Sustainable Exploration in Green Fields

New Approach for Well-Cleanup and Well-Testing Operations in High-Rate Gas-Condensate Fields Resulting in Smart Sand-Management System

Shale-Oil Quality Evaluation of Sand-Shale Laminated Reservoir Based on Wireline Formation Test

Formation Evaluation

Effects of Cyclic Salt Precipitation on CO2 Injectivity: From Pore Scale to Near Wellbore

Regional Pore-Pressure Variations of the Wolfcamp, Dean, Spraberry, and Bone Spring Formations of the Midland and Delaware Basins in the USA

Multilayer Reservoir Mapping in Low-Resistivity, Low-Contrast Clastic Reservoir Using Integration of Ultradeep Azimuthal Resistivity 1D and 3D Inversions

Seismic

Energy-Based Fracture-Network Reconstruction of Shale Gas Reservoir

Joint-Domain Full-Waveform Inversion and Its Applications to Ultrashallow Water OBN Data

Elastic Dislocation Modeling Is an Indirect Tool for Subseismic Natural-Fractures Identification for Carbonate Reservoirs in Wildcat, Exploratory, and Development Blocks: A Case Study From the Complex Compressional Tectonic Zone of Pakistan.