JPT April 2022 Issue
On the Cover
Pseudo dry gas opens the possibility of developing remote stranded-gas fields by making it possible to build far longer tiebacks and ultimately produce more gas. Source: Worley.
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Monthly Features
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A system that could help turn stranded-gas fields into producing projects has moved closer to reality, aided by the growing focus on reductions in carbon emissions. -
New research from Hess offers compelling evidence that two layers of tight rock can be treated as one and how passive wells can become oil producers. -
As the number of discoveries goes down and headwinds increase, the days of the US Gulf of Mexico megaproject could be numbered. -
Many OFS companies have pulled away from the unconventional resources and redirected their efforts into alternate energy and clean technology. There is a limited bucket of money available for these companies to invest in new technology, and with every dollar diverted to ESG, those dollars are taken away from traditional technologies. -
How to use the new SPE Competency Matrices to prepare for the SPE Certification Exam and the SPE Competency Management Tool to address skills gaps to excel in the energy industry in the 21st century. -
Is it possible for an extractive industry like oil and gas to not only improve efficiency and reduce negative impacts, but also leave operations sites and surrounding areas in a better state than they were found? Much of the public debate revolves around climate change, but measures of ecosystem resilience are dropping precipitously. Why should we care?
President's Column
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Geopolitics have led to nearly historical highs in gas and oil prices. The underinvestment in upstream oil and gas has strongly impacted both production capacity and record-low reserve discoveries. Addressing these issues among others, IPTC in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was a strong start for SPE this year. To determine the right path forward after the discontinuation of t…
Comments
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What may have been a sense of uneasy security in countries around the world that relied on imported oil and gas has been shaken off. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and its role in supplying natural gas to the EU, highlights just how quickly the sourcing of fuel can or must change.
E&P Notes
Contract represents MODEC’s first project for Eni Mexico.
Early production from Ndungu expected at 20,000 B/D.
Saudi looks to increase natural gas role in electricity production.
Russian producer takes over program left by bankrupt Fieldwood Energy.
Brazilian state oil company will focus E&P efforts in deepwater.
Formerly Delek Drilling, NewMed interested in Moroccan Mediterranean.
Shallow water assets sold include interests in four leases
Venus well could prove 2 billion-barrel find.
Ecuador program will involve over 40 wells over 18 months.
Project should add just over 10,000 B/D to Na Kika throughput.
Brazilian state oil company looks to divest interests in the GOM.
Production at Liza Unity FPSO should reach 220,000 B/D later in 2022.
New discovery could hold 100 million barrels of oil.
People
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SPE Honorary Member and technical expert in formation-damage control, sandstone acidizing, and production chemistry, and a prolific author of technical literature, passed away 28 November.
People
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This section lists with regret SPE members who recently passed away.
Natural Gas Processing and Handling
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The three papers selected for this Tech Focus feature describe technologies that can make natural gas safer to move and store.
Completions
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Data science continues to provide solutions for unconventional-well challenges. But innovative combinations of proven technologies also are delivering improved success in artificial lift wells. The articles I have selected for this feature provide details on these achievements. But can the learnings from one type of completion improve success in other types of complet…
Heavy Oil
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Heavy oils are characterized by high density, high viscosity, and high-heavy-fraction components. Because of high viscosity and lower API gravity than conventional crude oil, primary recovery of some of these crude oil types requires thermal stimulation of the reservoirs.
History Matching and Forecasting
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This year’s history matching and forecasting selections, made by reviewer Gopi Nalla of DeGolyer and MacNaughton, reflect the importance of accurate and innovative methodology in the approach toward development of unconventional or challenging plays, from tight oil to highly heterogeneous gas fields to coalbed methane.
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