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. -
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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There’s an old line in the proppant business that customers want a product that is stronger than diamonds, lighter than water, and cheaper than dirt. And they are serious about that. -
Helge Haldorsen is the nominee for 2015 Society of Petroleum Engineers president. He and seven others make up the slate of Board nominees recommended for SPE Board positions by the society’s Nominating Committee and Board of Directors.
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An increase in local gas consumption in the UAE has caused Abu Dhabi National Oil Company to turn to development of the emirate’s sour gas fields, one of the most challenging types of fields.
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David Monk said Apache Corp. uses wireless seismic receivers when it cites advantages over traditional systems connected together by cables.
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Exciting hydrocarbon discoveries of mind-bending quantities are being made in the far reaches of our solar system and our own Milky Way galaxy.
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Artificial lift systems arae among the most widely used production technologies in global oil and gas operations.
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Jason Norman’s search for components for an automated system to manage drilling fluids often begins with an online search.
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On the day last February that the US Geological Survey (USGS) came out with a report saying up to 2 billion bbl of oil could be produced from shale formations on the North Slope of Alaska, a company was already planning to drill on its 500,000-acre lease.
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There is no doubt that the 86,000-sq-mile Permian Basin, encompassing 52 counties in west Texas and eastern New Mexico, is experiencing a renaissance in drilling activity.
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What gave rise to oil drilling in the Permian Basin—in particular the Spraberry trend area? Why now the focus on the various Wolfcamp plays?
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