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For my fourth column on emerging oil and gas frontier regions, I want to focus on the area surrounding the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest inland water body and one of the oldest oil-producing regions.

An SPE workshop titled “Application of the SPE Petroleum Resources Management System (Unconventional Re­sources),” was held 14 November, the day after the 2013 SPE Unconventional Resources Conference and Exhibition–Asia Pacific in Brisbane, Australia.

For companies working to maximize production and profits, one of the biggest questions has been, and continues to be, how manyu wells to drill per square mile.

Youssif Saleh, general manager of Qatar Shell Research and Technology Centre in the Qatar Science and Technology Park, discusses the R&D strategy of the center and Qatar.

Optimum exploitation of unconventional hydrocarbons will rely almost as much on innovative business models as on technology breakthroughs.

Nathan Meehan is the nominee for 2016 SPE president. He and nine others make up the slate of nominees recommended for positions open on the SPE Board of Directors.

While shale unproved technically recoverable resources have been identified around the world, development has been limited to North America.

Some operators are returning to their North American mature unconventional shale wells to refracture, or restimulate, the rock to accelerate production and enhance ultimate recoveries.

The subject field in deep water off West Africa provides an opportunity to perform a review of how well the reservoir-performance predictions made at project funding matched with the final actual field performance.

Shell and Transocean formed a partnership to work on designing a more reliable control system for blowout preventers (BOPs). Their goal is “eliminating BOP control system downtime” with a 3-year project to design fault-resistant and fault-tolerant control systems.