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2025 has seen an 81% year-on-year rise in the number of small modular reactor designs to have secured at least one source of funding or a funding commitment.

A collaboration between a large independent and a technology developer used low-cost interventions to optimize production from unconventional wells.

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.

Adaptability, collaboration, and digital technologies are all pages in Aramco’s oilfield R&D playbook.

The global oilfield service company is working with Ormat Technologies to boost its integrated geothermal business.

The report from the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative presents data showing that its 12 member companies have reduced aggregate upstream methane intensity by 62%, routine flaring by 72%, and carbon intensity by 24% since 2017.

A newly formed global coalition, Carbon Measures, aims to develop a ledger-based carbon accounting framework and champion market-based solutions to drive emissions reduction.

Absolute greenhouse-gas emissions from Canadian oil sands increased by less than 1% in 2024, even as production grew, according to an analysis by S&P Global Commodity Insights, which cited gains in efficiency for the trend.

Satellite data show nearly 45,000 methane plumes worldwide in the first quarter, triple the number from a year earlier.

The publication highlights the role of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the energy transition and how the oil and gas industry can support the uptake of CCS technologies and presents case studies from Ipieca members.

The service company said the cancellation of a 2-GW offshore wind project in the Netherlands means its restructuring plan can no longer be delivered.

The SPE Drilling Systems Automation Technical Section has a new name—and a bigger mission. Discover how DSATS is evolving beyond automation to drive smarter, more connected, and more human-centered drilling systems for the future.