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Petrobras’ program to move oil processing to the ocean bottom has taken another step forward with the startup of the first oil/water separation unit that reinjects produced water back into the field.

Saudi Aramco plans to become an enabler and creator of new technology by increasing its research funding fivefold by 2020, a Saudi Aramco executive said at OTC.

There are strong arguments for standardization when developing a new technology. The hard part is getting competitors in the oil industry to agree on the standard to apply when faced with a new challenge in which there is no accepted solution.

Woodside Energy highlighted the challenges of its flagship Pluto project, a large liquefied natural gas (LNG) development that started production last year offshore northwest Australia.

This is the teaser.

Exploration wells, unconventional plays, and development wells can benefit from NeoScope, a sourceless formation evaluation-while-drilling solution. Two case studies share how the technology mitigates the risks or logistic complications associated with chemical nuclear sources.

The demand for more and more oil and gas has prompted the industry to seek new areas of hydrocarbon deposits, and the development of subsea completions has kept pace.

For the past 17-plus years, it has been my privilege to serve as your JPT Technology Editor. After growing up in the oil patch as the son of a sales engineer for a major service company, I have spent all but a couple of years of my adult life as an oily.

A mobile system has been developed that mixes consistent solutions of powder-based friction reducers (FRs) at the wellsite and adds them to hydraulic fracturing fluid.

This is the teaser.