Monthly Features

As oil prices recover from the low point of the downturn, operators in the Permian and the Bakken are tackling water management issues.

By creating a different sort of partnership for a drilling project with close cooperation and greater efficiency built into every detail, including the contracts, Statoil was able to halve the cost of drilling eight wells at its Johan Sverdrup field.

One of the oldest deepwater platforms in the Gulf of Mexico has become a profit-leader for the oil major during this downturn and is now a model for the company’s other floating assets.

Russia’s need to continue expanding the oil and gas business is pushing it to look east for more production and markets. But everywhere it turns there is stiff competition in a world awash in oil and gas.

Shale explorers in Argentina are reporting that improving performance and activity is set to rise this year to boost the country’s gas production.

Three major finds have shattered assumptions about what is possible in the most explored parts of Alaska’s North Slope.

A new spread of stimulation equipment from the world’s largest service company demonstrates the latest significant step to creating a more automated oilfield.

Sami Al-Neaim has been nominated for 2019 SPE President, and eight other members were nominated to fill vacancies on the 2018 SPE Board of Directors.

Oil production from the Canadian oil sands is big, growing, and its future is in doubt. The problem is the cost and time required to develop new production is not competitive now. While some big international oil companies are selling out, others are focused on changing the economics of growth.

In North America’s most active shale fields, the drilling and hydraulic fracturing of new wells is directly placing older adjacent wells at risk of suffering a premature decline in oil and gas production.