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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. -
With the right infrastructure and interoperability, subsea resident robotics could unlock more frequent, cost-effective inspections—and a new standard for offshore efficiency.
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A key argument for fracturing without water is that the water left behind causes damage that reduces long-term production.
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What was once an emerging technology in the US has become the growth engine for oil and gas production globally, and the napalm-based mix that was used then looks like an anachronism. -
The Golden State’s Monterey formation has been garnering a great deal of attention as a possible emerging liquids-rich shale resource that not only rivals plays such as the Bakken and Eagle Ford but towers above them in potential.
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The thick, siliceous, highly tectonically fractured, organic-rich formation known as the Monterey is widely considered to be the primary source rock for hydrocarbons throughout California
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A few years ago, Mario Ruscev was in charge of a project to wire an oil field with a state-of-the-art system giving operators multiple streams of production data from each of the wells in the field.
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