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Oil prices are high, but spending has not caught up—yet. Meanwhile, exploration strategies are changing around the world toward a lower-risk model, and the frenzied pace of US M&A has very much cooled off. -
This case study outlines a full-scale testing program focused on the behavior of thermal casing connections subjected to severe bending and low-cycle fatigue loading. -
Disposal wells remain the lowest-cost solution for produced water, but concerns over seismicity and long-term sustainability are accelerating interest in alternatives. -
With millions of wells having been drilled in the US since the beginning of the oil age, the land is pocked with old, unused wellbores. For most, repurposing is a pipe dream. Plugging is the best option. -
This case study from Malaysia’s Petronas outlines a comprehensive review of perforation-charge testing across various tubular and reservoir conditions to help improve production from complex downhole scenarios. -
This case study presents the first field deployment of acoustic fracturing analysis to evaluate perforation efficiency and implement real-time interventions during pressure pumping.
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Jason Norman’s search for components for an automated system to manage drilling fluids often begins with an online search. -
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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Pioneer Natural Resources is a large independent oil and natural gas company, with resources throughout the US—in south Texas, the Rockies and Mid-Continental regions, the Barnett shale, and in Alaska’s Oooguruk field.
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Approach Resources Inc. is an independent oil and natural gas company headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Charles Frederic Rand and Robert Earll McConnell
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Once the stuff of science fiction, artificial intelligence (AI) has become ubiquitous in our daily life, and the modern oil and gas industry is no exception.
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The label unconventional resources, for shale or other nontraditional oil and gas formations, has its detractors.
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When Gerald Schotman, Shell’s chief technology officer, looks at the unconventional oil and gas business, he sees so many young technologies and “from the perspective a chief technology officer, that is such an opportunity.”
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