Monthly Features
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This article is the fourth in a Q&A series from the SPE Research and Development Technical Section focusing on emerging energy technologies. In this piece, David Reid, the CTO and CMO for NOV, discusses the evolution and current state of automated drilling systems. -
Casing deformation has emerged as a major challenge in China’s unconventional oil and gas fields, prompting the development of new solutions to address the issue. -
Oil and gas experts encourage human/AI partnerships that can “supercharge” capabilities to create competitive advantages. -
The US supermajor is using one of its lowest-value hydrocarbon products to generate double-digit production increases in its most prolific US asset. -
The use of real-time wireless downhole pressure gauges proved a valuable alternative to workover operations in two onshore fields in Iraq. -
Bad vibes are being addressed by contractors as operators push to go faster, deeper, and longer with unconventional wells.
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The effect of frac hits on production economics is becoming more important as a result of the high-speed drilling in the US shale sector. Recent research reveals the financial and recovery risks involved if well spacing results in well-to-well interference. -
When fracturing slowed last year in the Marcellus, companies holding produced water they did not need for fracturing paid other operators to take it. It provided a cheap source of fracturing water then, and in the future, water trading could reduce the high cost of shipping water.
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Antero Resources has built a huge plant to turn waste water into fresh water and salt for sale. The $275-million investment in West Virginia is the most tangible indication of how operators in the Marcellus are pushing water reuse.
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Petroleum salaries are showing increases again after 2 years of decline.
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Winners of the 2017 SPE International Awards are announced. Recipients will be recognized during the Annual Reception and Banquet at the SPE ATCE in San Antonio.
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One tech company is using a unique approach to building custom apps for the oil and gas business.
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Angola’s powerful oil and gas industry has enabled the country’s rapid growth, but an overreliance on those revenues has posed major challenges. Does a recent change of leadership mean a shift in the nation’s economic direction?
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One of the oldest drilling consortia in the world, The University of Tulsa Drilling Research Project, celebrates 50 years and is poised to continue its tradition for another 5 decades.
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2018 SPE President Darcy Spady shares the goals for his presidency and his strategies to steer the Society through the downturn and changing demographics in the industry.
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The promise of getting 30% more oil production from shale wells has set off a race by companies trying to see if they can replicate what EOG has done. But the big question is: Can it add enough oil to increase the industry’s low average recovery rate?
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