JPT November 2025 Issue
On the Cover
The Middle East is pushing harder than ever to commercialize unconventional resources as domestic needs increase along with calls to grow exports. Source: Getty Images.
Monthly Features
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Operators from across the region met in Muscat to share how lessons from pilot programs are shaping cost, scale, and technology priorities across the region. -
EERC CEO Charles Gorecki outlines how applied research in North Dakota is helping improve oil recovery, reduce emissions, and advance carbon storage. -
Adaptability, collaboration, and digital technologies are all pages in Aramco’s oilfield R&D playbook. -
2025 has seen an 81% year-on-year rise in the number of small modular reactor (SMR) designs to have secured at least one source of funding or a funding commitment.
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Growing energy transition investment highlights oil and gas technologies as key enablers.
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Our industry’s reputation won’t be rebuilt through campaigns—it will be rebuilt through conversation. This column explores how the “20/60/20 Rule” can guide us to focus on the majority who simply want to understand what we do, and why facts alone aren’t enough to change minds.
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This article is the fifth in a Q&A series from the SPE Research and Development Technical Section focusing on emerging energy technologies. In this edition, Shantanu Agarwal, founder and CEO of Mati Carbon, discusses how the company’s approach to carbon removal led to winning the Musk Foundation’s XPRIZE in 2025.
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With inventories swelling and China’s stockpiling nearing its limit, global oil prices may be running out of room to hide.
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A collaboration between a large independent and a technology developer used low-cost interventions to optimize production from unconventional wells.
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Updates about global exploration and production activities and developments.
People
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This section lists with regret SPE members who recently passed away.
SPE Technical Paper Downloads
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SPE technical papers synopsized in each monthly issue of JPT are available for download for SPE members for 2 months.
Drilling and Completion Fluids
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One major challenge for drilling-fluid engineers is the design and management of optimal drilling-fluid formulations in emerging frontiers—fractured formations and high-pressure geothermal environments. Recently, operators have leveraged cutting-edge technology such as machine learning and expanded data-driven techniques to facilitate the development of new drilling-f…
EOR Operations
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Entrepreneurial mindsets with the motivation to explore new materials, not limited to focusing on traditional hydrocarbon gas, CO2, and chemicals such as polymer and surfactant, are becoming more important for broadening prospects beyond the conventional EOR scene.
Hydraulic Fracturing Modeling
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Outstanding papers over the past year have addressed topics such as casing deformation, well spacing, frac-design optimization, proppant transport in the well or in fractures, integrating diagnostics from field trials, and exploring the effects of lateral length on production.
Flow Assurance
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The advancement of flow-assurance technology can be characterized as a transition from reactive to proactive, from laboratory-scale examination to field applicability, and from data-driven to big data and physics integration.