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This paper aims to develop criteria for identifying situations in which induced fracture complexity and sustained conductivity are or are not required.

This study provides a model for the inclined fracture case. It applies and further extends the unified-fracture-design approach for rectangular drainage areas, relating the dimensionless proppant number to the maximum productivity index in pseudosteady-state conditions.

OPEC’s decision last year not to cut production in order to defend market share and drive some high-cost producers out of the market appears to be working. But it is setting up a new market paradigm, argues a new study, which could have long-term implications for the oil industry.

What is more integral to the exploration and production (E&P) business than making decisions? In many ways it is the essence of business.

Gas lift is an artificial lift technique used in wells in which the natural reservoir pressure is insufficient to deliver fluids to the surface in the initial production stage or has depleted to the point of being incapable of bringing fluids to the surface.

Tertiary oil recovery technologies can extend the economic life of maturing waterflooded reservoirs. This article describes the results from a biologically based EOR technology that has improved waterflood efficiency by increasing oil production and decreasing the decline rates.

Statoil has successfully used dual-­gradient drilling for the first time ever in the US Gulf of Mexico (GOM) on an upper-hole section.

The lower tertiary formation found in the pre-salt layers of the Gulf of Mexico has become a proving ground for extending what is possible when completing multistage fracturing in ultradeepwater wells.

The University of Texas at Austin (UT) will launch an initiative in April to promote cross-discipline collaboration and student research on automated technology in the oil field.

The deepwater oil sector is at a crossroads. Deepwater production (defined as oil produced in water depths of greater than 450 m) has had a spectacular run over the past decade as major oil companies broadened their portfolios worldwide.