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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.

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?

You have invested a lot of time and money training new employees. Once employees are fully qualified, how do you retain them?

Going forward, the oil and gas industry should have intelligent, automated systems designed to capture data, learn from events, optimize production, and prevent safety-related incidents. The time is now for this step change in the industry.

Technology, research, and project best practices critical for producing the next generation of energy resources was the focus of panel discussions and technical paper presentations at the International Petroleum Technology Conference (IPTC), held 20–22 January in Doha, Qatar.