Monthly Features
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This article is the third in a Q&A series from the SPE Research and Development Technical Section focusing on emerging energy technologies. In this piece, Zikri Bayraktar, a senior machine learning engineer with SLB’s Software Technology and Innovation Center, discusses the expanding use of artificial intelligence in the upstream sector.
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Successful in other applications, self-healing coatings could be the oil industry’s ticket to fighting corrosion and extending the life of steel.
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This article presents a results-driven case study from an ongoing collaboration between a midstream oil and gas company and Neuralix Inc.
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Shell became the first international company to operate producing fields offshore Brazil and the first to navigate the country’s complex and detailed decommissioning permitting process, which involved extensive environmental assessments, regulatory approvals, and coordinated stakeholder engagement.
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The service giant shares how its new technology can sense rock properties 50 ft ahead of the bit in horizontal wells.
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Once labeled “undrillable,” Brazil’s heavy-oil Atlanta field in the Santos Basin faced technical, financial, and logistical challenges. But through a phased approach, clever reuse of assets, and disciplined project execution, Brava Energia transformed a risky deepwater asset into a producing field with 172 million BOE in 2P reserves.
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Low flow rates presented a challenge in handling solids from a jetting operation before reinjection. A new cyclone was designed, tested, and installed in just 4 months to manage the suboptimal conditions.
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As we turn the page on our 75th anniversary, JPT’s recent visit to the UAE offers a front-row seat of what some of the industry’s biggest players see coming.
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JPT's Technology Focus showcases synopses of 144 SPE conference papers selected by the JPT Editorial Review Board across key specialty areas—your gateway to this year's top innovations. All topics are listed with their respective reviewers.
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The road to a low-carbon world is paved with more than just shiny new facilities and the promise to deliver impressive CO₂ reductions from the atmosphere. Without the software to site, monitor, and maintain those facilities, the drive for net zero would be stuck in neutral.
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The birthplace of Royal Dutch Shell, Indonesia and Malaysia, buck trends and grow their gas and oil industries, expecting a record number of final investment decisions in the next 4 years in gas, deep water, and carbon capture projects to support Southeast Asia’s booming economic growth.
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What we’ve learned about faster drilling in oil and gas applied just as well to geothermal development—until we reached The Geysers.
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Technology uptake aimed at optimizing resources, delivering consistency, and augmenting what humans can do.
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Undergraduate education in petroleum engineering has survived the latest downturn in the industry, and enrollment has started to show an uptick in numbers. However, a different trend is evident in graduate training and academic research: the number of researchers being trained in oil and gas topics is drastically dropping.
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This case study outlines a methodology to optimize and control hydraulic fracturing parameters by achieving 100% cluster efficiency and overcoming formation leak-off.
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New and evolving artificial lift technology is helping operators improve production rates.
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