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As technology advances in the oil and gas sector, so does cybersecurity risk. To stay secure, companies should blend cybersecurity into their safety conversations, said expert Nicholas Andersen at the 2022 Offshore Technology Conference.

ExxonMobil has won an independent certification level for managing methane emissions in its New Mexico shale operations and is the first company to meet the standard for associated gas.

Senior Vice President Starlee Sykes told an audience at the Offshore Technology Conference that low-carbon barrels from the company's domestic offshore portfolio will help fund its transition plans.

Cryptocurrency is not the only game in town when it comes to using natural gas at the wellhead to reduce flaring. There are self-driving cars, the coming “metaverse,” language processing, chat bots, and more, all of which require advanced computing and a lot of energy. The demand is driving an expansion of services for Crusoe Energy.

ExxonMobil has declared force majeure on its Sakhalin-1 operations in the Russian Far East as risk-averse shippers fearing sanctions refuse to transport Sakhalin crude and production starts to fall.

An operator has redefined onsite operations reporting through the development of a standardized set of reporting activity codes as the backbone of a standardized digital well-design and execution process.

As the announcement of carbon sequestration projects becomes the norm, it’s time we look at what we know from a technical angle about how these projects need to be run based on the industry’s experience with enhanced oil recovery.

The paper describes the experience of using a machine-learning model prepared by the ensemble method to prevent stuck-pipe events during well construction in extended-reach wells.

With aggressive net-zero goals hanging overhead, countries are looking to fast-track low-carbon energy projects, and many are including nuclear in the mix.

Drilling automation champions met to identify where this emerging technology needs to be by the end of the decade. What they ended up agreeing on most was that the business models used today are largely incompatible with the technology of the future.

This paper describes a successful U-turn trajectory test in South Texas that has created new economic project opportunities for the company and increased optionality within challenged lease spaces across the field.

Capitalizing on technology that originated with NASA delivers savings on directional drilling operations.