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The White House is taking a governmentwide approach to reducing emissions in the oil and gas industry.

Given the rapidly rising investments in robotics and drones, why is the SPE Unmanned Systems Technical Section struggling to find volunteers willing to form a new board and keep the rest of the Production and Facility Community up to date on the opportunities and challenges in applying these new tools in the field or at construction sites?

Shell’s sibling solutions for its Vito and Whale deepwater US Gulf developments are proving the “design one, build two” model can work.

Over the past 30 years Caspian nations such as Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have built thriving economies on oil and gas wealth led by global energy companies and a handful of megaprojects. As times change, that model may need to be reassessed.

An integrated multidisciplinary work flow can improve the assessment of pipeline slugging fatigue for offshore field developments.

This paper presents experiences from an automated drilling-fluids-monitoring initiative and resulting real-time hydraulic measurements and models for automatic drilling control.

Mixing dry polymer powder and water to make friction reducer as needed during fracturing can cut the cost of the additive and the testing of whether a drastically simplified recipe performs as well as more-complex mixes.

This paper analyzes several configurations of convolutional neural networks suited for predicting upscaled fracture permeabilities and shape factors required to close a dual porosity/dual permeability model.

The Great Crew Change is all but over, Gen Xers are now managing Baby Boomers, and the oil and gas industry is morphing into the energy industry. Is this the end of an era or a new start for petroleum engineering education?

This paper describes a novel control scheme developed and tested on simulation for both hydrodynamic slugging and severe riser-induced slugging for a new facility in Angola.

The authors write that simple and straightforward observations on outcrops can be used to build 3D models that mimic geological relationships accurately.

This paper presents an integrated work flow to model mechanical properties at sufficiently high resolution to honor accurately rock fabric and its effects on height and complexity and, thus, production.