JPT July 2024 Issue

As Azerbaijan prepares to host COP29, JPT looks back at how the country prospered for millennia on its largess of oil and gas and its unique geography along the ancient Silk Road that today is traversed by pipelines delivering gas and oil to Europe from the depths of the Caspian Sea.

The oil and gas industry can leverage advanced AI and generative AI to bridge knowledge gaps, enhance decision making, and improve safety. These tools will boost efficiency and productivity, leading to a smarter and more resilient industry.

The retrofit merged enhanced gravity separation with induced gas flotation within the same vessel. Detailed insights into the design, operation, and performance of hybrid flotation systems are provided, offering valuable guidance for similar initiatives in the petroleum industry.

SPE President Terry Palisch is joined by SPE CEO Simon Seaton to discuss the member value survey and what is new with ATCE.

The integration of artificial intelligence/machine learning with traditional workflows marks a turning point, unleashing the immense potential of these proven techniques to address our everyday challenges in reservoir simulation.

The oil and gas industry has witnessed significant advancements in downhole technology. The technical papers here offer valuable insights into these developments, exploring nonmetallic downhole tubulars, collaborative ecosystems, material selection, environmental sustainability, and mechanical evaluation, showing a promising alternative to traditional steel counterpar…

Unconventional reservoirs bear a unique perplexity in that, at every scale, they are different from their conventional counterparts and even one another. This month’s selection of papers is all about those differences.

Despite more than 3 decades of intense focus on emissions issues, global emissions have only increased instead of going down. It’s imperative to question the efficacy, premises, practicality, and overlooked hurdles of current approaches.