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How Saudi Aramco exceeded scheduling expectations for one of the largest engineering projects in the world.

Petroleum engineering enrollment in the US, particularly at the undergraduate level, is increasing in a manner similar to the period between 1976 and 1982.

When he was young, Yu-Shu Wu, saw the powerful effect that cold can have on rocks. “I was born and raised in the coldest part of China in the winter. There were a lot of fractures on the surface—you see big fractures everywhere,” said Wu

In the southern North Sea, many fields suffer from declining gas production because of reservoir-pressure depletion and associated liquid loading.

There has been remarkable growth in the coiled-tubing industry in North America, resulting largely from the shale revolution. This growth attracted numerous new players into the industry, in addition to the capacity additions made by the existing service providers.

Sticking the coiled tubing (CT) is a major operational risk when performing a well intervention with CT. Stuck-pipe incidents often result in considerable production delay or, in the worst case, loss of the well.

Horizontal wellbores typically encounter inefficiencies caused by friction during drilling and completion operations.

Novel multizone stimulation technologies have enabled the development of tight resources that previously could not be developed economically and have enabled optimization of production resources distributed over thick gross intervals.

This past spring, I had the opportunity to review more than 100 SPE paper abstracts as well as numerous full papers from those abstracts. To SPE’s credit, these abstracts all represent high-quality papers, making it difficult to select those to be highlighted for this feature.

As oil companies have moved to more-marginal reservoir targets, application of conventional techniques has often yielded disappointing results, and tighter zones are often abandoned for more-promising target intervals.