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SPE’s technical directors offer advice on how to get through the current bad times, which are not so different than when they got in the business.

A number of ongoing industry research projects are developing nanoparticles that work at the reservoir level and for fluid treatment. Though they may be a few years away from finalization, these efforts highlight nanotechnology’s increasingly sophisticated and growing application scope.

With regulatory pressure and the cost of decommissioning increasing, many operators are seeking new and better decommissioning methods that could get more work done safely and at a lower cost.

As the oil industry begins to emerge from one of the worst downturns in decades, some see a new threat on the horizon: the growing use of electrically powered vehicles, which could cut seriously into future oil consumption.

Following my theme for the year on Risk and Reward, let’s think about how disruptive technologies alter the risk/reward balance.

Many column inches are filled with discussion of how companies need to operate in the lower-for-longer market that the upstream oil and gas industry continues to face.

Mexico’s historic public tender for its deepwater real estate resulted in the awarding of eight out of 10 blocks on offer.

Enrollment in US petroleum engineering programs have peaked and are on the downslide, matching the short-lived surge in the 1980s, when a generation of engineers were graduated.

A look at the universities, startups, and multinational corporations in Silicon Valley, California, which are applying data science and predictive modeling for oilfield management.

High-concentration polymer flooding can improve oil-displacement efficiency but separation of oil/water mixture becomes more difficult because of emulsification. In this work, a case history of dehydration technology for HCPF production and lab investigation of emulsion behaviors are reviewed.