Monthly Features

Fervo Energy’s bet that fracturing methods can be used for geothermal power is looking like a winner.

The heated global floating rig market has day rates for high-end units climbing over a half million dollars and toward a newbuild cycle that will (likely) never come.

Lebanon hopes to join the club of EastMed gas producers as TotalEnergies and its partners spud an appraisal well near Beirut’s maritime border with Israel where gas is already being produced.

Over a 10-year period, sensors monitoring the motion and loads near subsea wellheads have been mounted on more than 300 drilling campaigns. Integrity parameters were calculated to assess whether subsea conductors provided the intended amount of support during drilling operations. In several of these campaigns, loss of conductor support due to integrity issues was obse…

Part 3 of this series looks at the importance of performance analysis and how to generate the economic benefit for solving conformance or sweep efficiency problems. The economic elements of this review are very basic, but they will help you to determine a more-accurate understanding of the true economic benefit.

Appropriate data standards do not restrict creativity and innovation, they enable it. Being a little cynical, I guess we just do not value clarity, quality, or productivity over empowerment to do things our own way. “Why can’t we all just get along?”

The trend in fracturing designs has been longer stages with more perforation clusters, which save time and money. But there are a couple of companies testing whether shorter is better for production.

Operators share emissions-mitigation research insights amid calls to accelerate to meet 2030 goals.

A new program offers an affordable way to figure out if salt precipitation could be behind underperforming gas wells and suggests a path to higher production.

The supermajor redefined its Mad Dog II development in three key ways: a blank-sheet redesign to cut costs, altering the way it works as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a digital twin offering unique access to the asset from anywhere in the world.