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Downhole data acquisition by fiber-optic technology, particularly distributed fiber-optic (DFO) sensing, has gained rapid acceptance. Compared with conventional data acquisition, DFO provides a much better understanding of well and reservoir behavior.

The three Ps that successful companies get right are: people, portfolio, and performance. And you cannot have one without the other. Great people select great portfolios and great portfolios deliver great performance.

This month, Mexico will begin opening data rooms as it prepares for its first upstream bidding round involving foreign participation.

The authors describe the development of well-control techniques that allowed successful drilling operations in the Piloncillo Ranch lease in south Texas.

From 2009 to 2010, there was an increase in the number of well-control incidents on the Norwegian continental shelf reported to the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA).

Plains All American Pipeline entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Occidental Petroleum’s 50% share in BridgeTex Pipeline Company for USD 1.075 billion. BridgeTex owns the BridgeTex Pipeline—a 300,000 B/D crude pipeline system that extends from Colorado City in west Texas to Texas City, approximately 15 miles from the port of Galveston. The remaining 50% of …

Enitome Buluku, who is pursuing an MSc degree in oil and gas engineering at the University of Aberdeen, won the SPE Aberdeen Section’s second biennial Energy Apprentice contest, which was held at the Douglas Hotel on 5 November. The contest pits university students from across Scotland in three elimination rounds that test professional and engineering skills required …

Neil Chapman was appointed as the president of ExxonMobil Chemical and elected to serve as the vice president of ExxonMobil, replacing the retiring Stephen Pryor. Chapman joined the company in 1984, working for an Esso Chemical refinery in the United Kingdom. He advanced within the company in a series of engineering, operations, planning, and marketing roles in chemic…

Thermal recovery often causes variations in heavy oil viscosity. Yet viscosity is key to recovery, reserves estimation, and ultimately project success. A correlation for predicting viscosity is presented.

Compressor stations often consume 3-5% of the gas they are transporting as fuel. How to minimize this fuel consumption in an optimal manner is the subject of this paper.