NOVEMBER 2025 • VOL. 77, NO. 11
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Features
President’s Column: Energizing Tomorrow: Passion vs. Facts and the 20/60/20 Rule
Our industry’s reputation won’t be rebuilt through campaigns—it will be rebuilt through conversation. This column explores how the “20/60/20 Rule” can guide us to focus on the majority who simply want to understand what we do, and why facts alone aren’t enough to change minds.
Comments: Is Another Oil Glut Coming? Analysts Warn of an Uneasy 2026 Ahead
With inventories swelling and China’s stockpiling nearing its limit, global oil prices may be running out of room to hide.
Guest Editorial: Navigating the Transition: The Role of Oil and Gas in Reaching Net-Zero Emissions
Growing energy transition investment highlights oil and gas technologies as key enablers.
Middle East Operators See a Path Forward for Hydraulic Fracturing
Operators from across the region met in Muscat to share how lessons from pilot programs are shaping cost, scale, and technology priorities across the region.
Q&A With CEO of the EERC: Making North Dakota a Testbed for Energy Innovation
EERC CEO Charles Gorecki outlines how applied research in North Dakota is helping improve oil recovery, reduce emissions, and advance carbon storage.
Q&A With Aramco’s Ali A. Al-Meshari: Digital Disruption Is Only Half the Story in Oil and Gas R&D
Adaptability, collaboration, and digital technologies are all pages in Aramco’s oilfield R&D playbook.
Nuclear Returns to the Energy Mix With Small Reactors, Big Impact
2025 has seen an 81% year-on-year rise in the number of small modular reactor (SMR) designs to have secured at least one source of funding or a funding commitment.
R&D Technical Section Q&A: Enhanced Rock Weathering—The Entrepreneurship Journey to Winning the XPRIZE for Carbon Removal
This article is the fifth in a Q&A series from the SPE Research and Development Technical Section focusing on emerging energy technologies. In this edition, Shantanu Agarwal, founder and CEO of Mati Carbon, discusses how the company’s approach to carbon removal led to winning the Musk Foundation’s XPRIZE in 2025.
Case Study: From Parts to Performance—System-Level Innovations in Williston Basin Bottomhole Assemblies
A collaboration between a large independent and a technology developer used low-cost interventions to optimize production from unconventional wells.
E&P Notes
Updates about global exploration and production activities and developments.
People
Technology Focus Synopses
Drilling and Completion Fluids
Peter Osode, Senior Production Technology Consultant, EOP Energy Resources
Fluid-Advisory System Offers Recommendations for Various Systems
Self-Degradable Lost-Circulation Material Cures Dynamic Losses in Highly Fractured Section
Water-Based Reservoir Drill-In Fluid Withstands Extreme Thermal Boundaries
EOR Operations
Hideharu Yonebayashi, Distinguished Engineer, Japan Oil Development Company
Eagle Ford Huff ’n’ Puff Single-Well Pilot Uses Large Y-Grade Injection Volumes
Huff ’n’ Puff for Shale Oil Recovery Uses Surfactants, Nanoparticles, and Ketones
Microfluidic Strategies Use Ferrofluids for Enhanced Recovery
Hydraulic Fracturing Modeling
Mark McClure, CEO, ResFrac
Workflow Enables Effective Fracture-Geometry Analysis in Eagle Ford
Integration of Models Aids Prediction of Effects of Multibench Interference
Transfer-Learning Validation Improves Hydraulic Fracture Design
Flow Assurance
Changhyup Park, Professor, Kangwon National University
Machine-Learning Workflows Detect, Predict Paraffin Production in Eagle Ford
Design Approach Based on Induction Properties Mitigates Hydrate Formation
AI Powers Hydrate Detection, Prevention in North Kuwait Jurassic Gas Field
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