Monthly Features
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Data and impartial viewpoints can help de-risk exploration portfolios and keep resource estimates in check. -
A new tubing-conveyed tool combines wellbore cleanout with multi-tracer deployment for production diagnostics and reservoir monitoring. -
Technology developers expect the tight-oil industry to give lightweight proppants another look after the Permian Basin’s biggest operator becomes an adopter. -
Alaskan oil is entering a renaissance driven by a predicted 13% upswing in 2026 production, the largest since the 1980s, and a possible reboot of LNG exports to Asia from the Kenai Peninsula, supplied via pipeline from the North Slope. -
Adaptability, collaboration, and digital technologies are all pages in Aramco’s oilfield R&D playbook. -
Operators from across the region met in Muscat to share how lessons from pilot programs are shaping cost, scale, and technology priorities across the region.
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As well-developed shale plays and tight formations mature and decline in production, nontraditional strategies for maximizing production and discovering new resources must be considered. -
The top US wind power official told the offshore upstream sector that it can help build “smaller, leaner, and cheaper" wind turbine farms.
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With speakers from various disciplines and professions, the program focuses on industry trends, challenges, and technology applications.
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Low oil prices have made the goal of this Petrobras project and its four partners to lower the break-even price of operating to USD 35/bbl.
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With Over 200 Shale Well Installs, This Slug-Smoothing Lift Technology Is Boosted By Schlumberger JVSlug flow has made the life of an unconventional production engineer a bit complicated, but a new downhole technology may smooth things right out by solving some big artificial lift problems for the shale sector.
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Need a Faster Measure of Relative Permeability? Take a CT Scan and Follow With Digital Rock AnalysisFaster, lower-cost measures of multiphase permeability of conventional reservoirs are promised by a digital rock analysis method developed by BP and Exa, which is marketing software to measure relative permeability.
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As oil prices recover from the low point of the downturn, operators in the Permian and the Bakken are tackling water management issues.
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When oil prices began to fall rapidly in the last half of 2014, the impact was quickly felt in all of SPE’s programs. Our magazines were affected first by a reduction in advertising as companies reduced their marketing budgets.
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Significant production gains are being made with hydraulicly fractured wells using diversion to stimulate a higher percentage of the perforations.
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A new process system compatible with all types of drilling rigs is opening the door to wider adoption of drilling automation in North America’s shale sector.
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