Latest News

A team of engineers did something no one had done before: a full-scale fracturing test on the surface. The results surprised the fracturing experts involved.

This paper presents a screenout-classification system based on Gaussian hidden Markov models that predicts screenouts and provides early warning.

This paper discusses the results of driller stress tests and the implementation of a system that assists the operator in kick detection, space out, and preparation for well shut-in.

The message from a single chart’s data from the first full-scale hydraulic fracturing surface test is simple: Far less proppant flows out of the first clusters passed in a stage than the last ones.

The Biden administration reversed a Trump administration plan that would have allowed the government to lease more than two-thirds of the country’s largest swath of public land to oil and gas drilling.

The certification course, run by SeaBot XR, focused on critical topics such as mission analysis, situational awareness, cybersecurity, and resource management.

The two companies have teamed up in an attempt to cut downhole costs with a project that aims to extract more information from reduced data-acquisition programs.

The combined company will get a new name and a new focus on offshore renewables and other clean energy projects.

The US oil and gas company said it signed a letter of intent with the US midstream operator to explore commercializing a CO2 transportation and storage network.

Companies want to build pipelines to capture and store carbon, but a new report warns that regulators aren’t prepared.

A new study details how historically redlined neighborhoods across the US that scored lowest in racially discriminatory maps drawn by the government-sponsored Home-Owners Loan Corporation in the 1930s had twice the density of oil and gas wells than comparable neighborhoods that scored highest. The wells likely contribute to disproportionate pollution and related healt…

An incident at Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) resulted in an investigation that revealed that, even though required risk-reduction levels were achieved in design, the rest of the safety instrumentation life cycle phases were not rigorously adhered to. This paper presents various actions taken by PDO to make sure that what is designed is operated and maintained as in…