JPT October 2022 Issue
On the Cover
The artificial lift industry continues to adapt and evolve to meet global oil and gas demand. Source: Getty Images.
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Monthly Features
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In this first part of a two-part series, we look at how the artificial-lift sector has adapted to producing unconventional resources. The second part of the series to publish in November will crack open the lift toolbox to take a deeper look at the techniques and technologies under development or new to the market. -
Injecting gas plus water proved more effective and less costly than gas-only injection in the Bakken. -
Oil and gas operators around the globe are targeting reductions in offshore carbon emissions, and facilities electrification is the key that will help them meet their goals. -
Founded by former analytics experts for a large US independent, Xecta Digital Labs is proposing a new analysis method for horizontal wells. Adopting it means turning the page on some old habits.
Guest Editorial
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The pandemic shrank technical teams across the upstream industry, raising new and important questions about how training and knowledge sharing must evolve.
President's Column
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Petroleum engineers have important roles to play in the future energy for the world. Among these are using our traditional concept of producing oil and natural gas as we are doing now and will need to continue to do for decades to come; using our competencies to address the challenges of climate change; and helping to develop additional forms of energy that do not add…
Comments
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A just-launched publicly available database translates reserves and production data into greenhouse-gas emissions as CO2 equivalents. It was built using data from more than 50,000 fields in 89 countries, which covers about 75% of global reserves, production, and emissions.
E&P Notes
Development duo is expected to add more than 12,000 B/D of oil production at peak.
FPSO will feed gas from GTA development to nearby FLNG infrastructure.
Results from third test well in the Kavango basin are being analyzed by the partners.
An independent consultant believes the find could hold 1.7 billion bbl of recoverable reserves.
President Mnangagwa touts the current probe in the northern part of the country.
Good news in Block 53 is offset by disappointing results in Block 58.
The company will produce twilight barrels and conduct abandonment work when the field is deemed uncommercial.
The previous wells in the program have exceeded type curve estimates.
Success at Ofelia sets up another tieback development to the nearby Gjøa platform.
SPE News
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Each year during its Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, SPE honors members whose outstanding contributions to SPE and the petroleum industry merit special distinction. Recipients will be recognized at the Annual Awards Banquet on Tuesday, 4 October.
People
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This section lists with regret SPE members who recently passed away.
Offshore Drilling and Completion
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The papers that I included this month demonstrate real measurable efficiency gains and advantages, often processing volumes of data that previously could not be managed by conventional means. Performance measurement and drilling automation are two such examples, and the papers referenced this month, both as synopses and listed for further reading, fall into this categ…
Artificial Lift
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Artificial lift has long been thriving in the exciting innovation zone that the electronics industry is only now approaching. Just when you think the artificial lift community knows everything, people find new ways to turn old maxims on their head. The selections this month are true paradigm-changers.
Data Analytics
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I would like to invite readers to review the selection of papers to get an idea of various applications in the upstream oil and gas space where ML methods have been used. The highlighted papers cover the use of transformer-based models to predict oil production, the use of data analytics to study parent/child well relationships in shale plays, and the use of convoluti…
Sand Management
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A step change is noticeable in the quality of papers from the previous 2 years. First, the papers have better technical content; second, they are pushing the boundaries of currently accepted technologies and mores.
SPE Members: Access the free technical papers synopsized above through 30 November.