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Colorado will become a testing ground for reducing emissions from oil and gas exploration and production (E&P).

Growth in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects using carbon dioxide (CO2) in west Texas could be limited by supplies unless new sources of the gas are found in the ground or from indus- trial facilities.

Oxane Materials has joined the 20,000 club—joining the two makers who have announced they are selling proppant capable of standing up to high pressures.

For those in shale exploration, “fracability” is a real word, a critical property, and a point of contention.

Multilayered metal-mesh screens (MMSs) are widely used as standalone screens for sand control in unconsolidated formations. It is often found that screens with the same filter-layer nominal rating perform differently.

This paper presents a combined experimental and numerical-modeling study on sand-screen performance. The objective is to develop an improved methodology for optimal sand-screen-aperture selection by addressing some of the limitations present in existing sand-retention tests.

In this paper, gravel-pack pore size is evaluated further by use of the permeability of the gravel pack and other methods. A new sizing method is proposed that is based on the effective formation size and the gravel-pack pore size.

Optimization of maintenance costs is among operators’ main concerns in the search for operational efficiency, safety, and asset availability. The ability to predict critical failures emerges as a key factor, especially when reducing logistics costs is mandatory.

Increasing technical demands are pushing the envelope of rotary steerable system (RSS) drilling technology.

Imagine if you could have seen North America’s shale gas phenomenon coming, years ahead of the competition. What would you have done differently?