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If you can see it, then maybe you can control it. This sums up the latest quest that the unconventional engineering community embarked upon to get a better understanding of proper well spacing and how fractures really interact.

Drilling change requires training drillers. Leadership matters, as does motivation, engaging displays, and understanding office politics. Four different looks at the human side of drilling productivity improvement.

Recipients of SPE’s 2019 International Awards will be recognized on 1 October, during the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in Calgary.

With oil and gas facing a talent gap in the wake of the Great Crew Change, the industry finds itself competing for young talent looking for innovative, purpose-driven work. How can energy foster the culture of innovation needed to attract the new workforce, and how does it sell that culture?

Researchers from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas quantified the economic impact of the US shale revolution for the first half of this decade.

A description of the role of effective reservoir management in increasing the recovery factors for unconventional reservoirs, and a review of the advances in IOR/EOR technologies for unconventionals, as performed by the Energy Industry Partnership Team at the University of Houston.

A case study in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico in which pressure transient analysis, fractional flow, and production logging tools were integrated to identify correctly the cause of, and execute an effective remedy for, a well’s productivity deterioration.

The objective of this study was to look at factors that can affect a temperature log and steps that can be taken to improve temperature-measurement accuracy.

Operators around the world are focusing on lowering their production costs for both conventional and unconventional assets, while oilfield service companies are responding to customers’ cost-saving requests with incremental improvements in technology, supply chains, automation, and collaboration.

The service company said it will make its data ecosystem available to the platform that is designed to bring together exploration, development, and wells data from across the industry. This will allow Schlumberger to integrate its solutions with its clients who have already joined the platform.