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Enhanced recovery

Designing an Optimized Surfactant Flood in the Bakken

The Bakken’s ultratight, largely oil-wet nature limits the potential of waterflooding. As an alternative, an optimally spaced well-to-well surfactant-flooding technology is proposed.

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December 31, 2015 • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Enhanced recovery

EOR Performance and Modeling-2016

Limited design capability, few number of field tests, and lack of monitoring and control were the reasons most EOR projects did not perform in the past. All those are history now.

December 31, 2015 • Omer Gurpinar • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Enhanced recovery

EOR-Feasibility Study for a Large Carbonate Field in Kuwait

This study provides technical analysis of the viability of enhanced-oil-recovery (EOR) processes; the results indicate the potential for significant improvement in recovery efficiency over continued waterflooding.

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December 31, 2015 • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Reservoir simulation

Guest Editorial: Engineering Design in the “Lower for Longer” Environment

For engineering design teams, the market downturn is an opportunity to review practices and learn from others who have used hard times to reshape processes through simulation while cutting development time and costs.

December 31, 2015 • Alex Read • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Digital Oil Field

Smart-Horizontal-Well Drilling and Completion for Thin-Oil-Rim Reservoirs in Malaysia

For thin-oil-rim reservoirs, well placement, type and path, and well-completion methods, should be evaluated with close integration of key reservoir- and production-engineering considerations.

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April 30, 2015 • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Environment

Offshore Seismic Feeling Pressures to Change

Seismic innovators are working on new sound sources designed to produce better subsurface images while addressing concerns raised by scientists and regulators about the environmental impact of the related noise on sea life.

December 31, 2015 • Stephen Rassenfoss • Journal of Petroleum Technology
R&D/innovation

Rethinking Proppant: From Liquid to Solid

At the SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference, one of the most innovative ideas discussed was a liquid proppant designed to turn into strong spherical balls to keep a fracture open.

March 31, 2015 • Stephen Rassenfoss • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Digital Oil Field

Intelligent Fields Technology-2015

Artificial-intelligence (AI) -based methods have become mainstream engineering, and we as practitioners need to have a firm understanding of the principles and be ready to apply them when the opportunities arise.

April 30, 2015 • John Hudson • Journal of Petroleum Technology
R&D/innovation

Partnership Key to ADNOC’s Technology Qualification Initiatives

ADNOC and BP will collaborate to form an earth surface technology center in Abu Dhabi. ADNOC has also reformed its stage gate process for advancement of new technologies.

September 21, 2016 • Stephen Whitfield • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Completions

Oil Price Plunge Requires Revised Completion Methods

In this cost-cutting market environment, completion engineers face added pressure to maximize the return on every dollar invested when putting unconventional wells into production.

March 31, 2015 • Stephen Rassenfoss • Journal of Petroleum Technology

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