Monthly Features
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Addressing the challenge of developing a mature basin with a data-driven approach to spacing and inventory decisions. -
Oman is embarking on a renewed effort to deploy the latest hydraulic fracturing technologies and techniques, tailored to its unique reservoirs and challenges. -
From its origins running just a few light bulbs in Tuscany in 1904 to supporting baseloads on national power grids today, geothermal power generation has been driven by technological advancements. Many of these advancements stem from oil and gas exploration and production efforts. -
Monitoring on the ground is helping the industry shift from best estimates to hard data so it can bring the true emissions profile into focus. -
To overcome operational constraints tied to ball-and-seat valves, an operator tested a spring-loaded alternative downhole. -
Despite a 2.8% drop in liquefied natural gas exports in 2025 because of lost market share in China, Australia anticipates a 2026 rebound as new North West Shelf capacity comes online. Meanwhile, East Coast operators brace for a tsunami of wells entering the decommissioning pipeline and potential energy shortfalls necessitating LNG imports.
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Since 2008, Pennsylvania has seen a dramatic shift away from conventional drilling. For that year, 4,511 conventional and 300 unconventional wells were drilled. -
Ever since its pioneer Renz No. 1 well, recompleted to target the Marcellus shale in October 2004, Range Resources has led trends in the play’s activity. If this holds true, the Marcellus is in for a surge in liquids-rich development.
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Oil companies and governments in the Middle East set their sights on technology advancements.
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How Saudi Aramco exceeded scheduling expectations for one of the largest engineering projects in the world.
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When he was young, Yu-Shu Wu, saw the powerful effect that cold can have on rocks. “I was born and raised in the coldest part of China in the winter. There were a lot of fractures on the surface—you see big fractures everywhere,” said Wu
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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.
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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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