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Upstream oil and gas is well behind other industries when it comes to being digitally enabled. That said, there is an enormous amount of interest in and expectation around the benefits of digital solutions.

This new publication intends to cover the hype, the hope, and the reality of data science and digital engineering. We want to educate about new emerging digital technologies, but we also want to talk about the other hard issues that are preventing us from moving faster.

Completion engineers feel pressure to maximize production per acre and minimize the downsides of fracturing in tight spaces. Terry Palisch, talks about promoting knowledge sharing as part of JPT’s tech director report.

Many companies care about corporate social responsibility. But putting it into practice requires more than CEO speeches and company policies; managers and employees have to be on board.

The chicken or the egg? The cart or the horse? Should policy or technology take the lead? It is not a reasonable question when it comes to deciding where the keys to a sustainable energy future lay—we need both.

The term digital oil field has become a buzzword in the oil and gas industry these days, with the mention of it bringing up pictures of computers, flashy screens, and programming to mind. In reality, the concept goes beyond these.

Researchers combined detailed observations, laboratory experiments, and existing numerical models to develop the Texas A&M Oil Spill Calculator and improve predictions of subsea oil and gas plume dynamics.

On 2 January, Syncrude Canada pleaded guilty in the Alberta Court to one count of violating the Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994, along with several provincial charges.

Ahead of the release of the Trump administration's changes to Obama-era rules governing offshore oil platforms, Michael Bromwich said he is worried. "I don't think they are in the public's interest," he said.

The country continues to step up its delivery of shale gas, but has a long ways to go to meet the government's target.