Testing page for app

In this year’s papers on mature fields and well revitalization, I have found operators focusing on making all-out efforts to improve their ongoing waterflood operations to extend the life of existing wells, which is preferred over drilling new infill wells.

COVID-19 has significantly accelerated the adoption of digital technologies across all industries, and the oil and gas industry has been no exception. As such, interest in digital data acquisition, which is the backbone of all digital transformation work flows, also has increased significantly.

Integrity (noun): the condition of having no part or element wanting; unbroken state; material wholeness, completeness, entirety. While reviewing the abstracts, I was struck by the huge range of challenges to maintaining “material wholeness” beyond the routine testing of tree and safety valves.

The enhanced-oil-recovery literature produced in the past several months was dominated by reservoir modeling and characterization; flood enhancements; machine learning; and, more notably, relative permeability estimation. This last one needs to be understood further.

Industrial robots are becoming an increasingly popular choice in a variety of industries for different applications. Going by responses to a McKinsey and Company survey, up to 88% of businesses worldwide intend to adopt robotic automation into their infrastructure.

AI-driven technology in the form of digital twins is helping companies reduce costs as they reopen after the COVID-19 lockdown, says a report from research and advisory company Gartner.

Where there are data generated and collected, there is analysis of the data. The ongoing digital transformation in the industry has opened many opportunities for professionals skilled in data analytics.

The partnership between the software company and Texas A&M’s Department of Petroleum Engineering provides students with access to software that can enhance reservoir research with machine learning.

With a replacement gas injection system successfully installed, the Liza Destiny FPSO has reached its peak capacity of 120,000 B/D on the one-year anniversary of its commissioning.