Monthly Features
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This case study describes how edge computing and industrial internet of things platforms were deployed to automate and optimize production operations across four distinct basins. -
This case study presents a procedure in which the operator compared production from wells with adjusted wettability to a control group, finding that the adjustments resulted in significant improvements in production and reductions in produced water. -
As equipment advances to handle extreme pressures and temperatures, new Gulf opportunities are emerging—alongside increasing operator demands for standardized, scalable, faster, and more affordable solutions. -
Ultradeepwater prospects along the northern coast of Brazil could help offset decline in legacy basins, though permitting hurdles remain a wild card. -
The US federal government is working to stymie offshore wind power, but proponents aren’t going quietly. Armed with data, they are taking on a sea of misinformation and hostility to defend the burgeoning resource in the US, while the rest of the world moves ahead briskly. -
This case study from SLB and offshore producer PRIO describes the longest openhole section in Latin America with the highest extended-reach drilling ratio in Brazil’s history.
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The Grosmont pilot project uses heating expertise, carbonate knowledge, and computer modeling to tackle the challenge of producing bitumen from carbonate deposits. -
The new Olympus tension leg platform (TLP) is the largest in the US Gulf of Mexico, with more than twice the displacement of the neighboring Mars TLP. It marks a leap forward in safety, improved operation time, and increased production capacity.
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Twenty-eight peer-selected lecturers from various disciplines and professions share emerging trends, challenges, and technologies.
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Saudi Aramco's new R&D centers in the US will help bridge international scientific expertise and technology.
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Robert Estes, manager of emerging technology at Baker Hughes, notes that commonly in electronic parts, the failure of semiconductors, microprocessors, memory, and dense chips at high temperature is not the silicon.
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While there are rechargeable batteries rated to 125ºC, many service companies prefer not to use them because a rating of 150ºC is preferable. The industry typically uses one-time-use lithium primary batteries.
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Another technology under development that takes raw natural gas from the wellhead and converts it to liquids is being designed by Ceramatec, a research and development firm in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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The new influx of well capping companies finds ways to shut down wells by employing equipment used for everyday tasks. Their challenge today is to anticipate and develop equipment to prevent the potential blowouts of tomorrow.
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In the Middle East, developing sour gas fields have become a priority of local governments because of soaring regional gas consumption.
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Cooperation is critical in the plans laid for blowout response, with multiple organizations each filling a role, along with government agencies.
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