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Drilling/completion fluids

Automated Drilling-Fluids-Measurement Technique Improves Fluid Control, Quality

This paper presents experiences from an automated drilling-fluids-monitoring initiative and resulting real-time hydraulic measurements and models for automatic drilling control.

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November 1, 2021 • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Oilfield chemistry

Sometimes the Hard Part Is Not Solving the Problem; It Is Finding a Way To Deliver the Solution

The difficulty in selling a chemical to aid subsea pipeline flow has been delivering it to the wells.

November 1, 2021 • Stephen Rassenfoss • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Drilling/completion fluids

Inline Setup Provides Automatic Measurement of PVT Behavior of Drilling Fluids

This paper presents the design and functionality of an apparatus that measures directly and automatically the pressure/volume/temperature (PVT) behavior of the drilling fluid contained in a pit.

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November 1, 2021 • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Enhanced recovery

Low Polymer Retention Possible in Flooding of High-Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs

In this study, the authors show that high-temperature, high-salinity polymers can exhibit low adsorption and retention in carbonate reservoir rock at ultrahigh salinity conditions.

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November 1, 2021 • Journal of Petroleum Technology
$Overall process work flow of CO2 waterless fracturing.$

Enhanced recovery

Strategy Targets Risk Management for CO2 Waterless Fracturing

In this paper, a complete safety-management approach and a contingency plan are developed for carbon dioxide waterless fracturing operations.

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November 1, 2021 • Journal of Petroleum Technology
$A physics-based simulation of multiple offset wells after hydraulic fracturing.$

Fracturing/pressure pumping

What Is Really Happening When Parent and Child Wells Interact?

Insights from an ongoing industry study on North American shale wells help explain what frac hits, or fracture-driven interactions, are doing between offset wells, and why.

November 1, 2021 • Trent Jacobs • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Energy transition

The Changing Role of Education in the New Era of Energy

The Great Crew Change is all but over, Gen Xers are now managing Baby Boomers, and the oil and gas industry is morphing into the energy industry. Is this the end of an era or a new start for petroleum engineering education?

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November 1, 2021 • Judy Feder • Journal of Petroleum Technology
$The components of the reference upscaled fracture permeability tensor and the shape factor$

Reservoir simulation

Machine Learning Upscales Realistic Discrete Fracture Simulations

This paper analyzes several configurations of convolutional neural networks suited for predicting upscaled fracture permeabilities and shape factors required to close a dual porosity/dual permeability model.

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November 1, 2021 • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Offshore wind

World’s Largest Floating Windfarm Begins Delivering Electricity

The 50-MW Kincardine Offshore Windfarm is 15 km off the coast of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in water depths from 60 to 80 m.

October 20, 2021 • Oil and Gas Facilities
Environment

California Court of Appeal Strikes Down Monterey County’s Ban on New Oil Wells

A California appellate court has ruled against a Monterey County ban on new oil and gas wells, possibly paving the way for Chevron and a bevy of smaller oil companies to begin drilling new wells.

October 18, 2021 • Monterey Herald • HSE Now

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