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Energy’s Struggle With Rapidly Changing Roles, Responsibilities, and Reputation

Almost every aspect of modern society is supported or influenced by energy—and yet it is one of the least understood and possibly one of the most reviled industries on the planet.

October 31, 2014 • Derek Mathieson • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Salaries Rise Year on Year but Fall From 2012

Petroleum industry professionals reported an average total compensation of USD 214,328 in 2014, compared with 203,557 in 2013 and 223,472 in 2012.

October 31, 2014 • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Decommissioning

Winds of Change Reduce Cost of Removing Gulf of Mexico Platforms

A strong reason for removing old platforms from the Gulf of Mexico, rather than trying to squeeze more years of marginal production out of them, is hurricanes.

October 31, 2014 • Stephen Rassenfoss • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Decommissioning

Searching for New Ways To Make the Cut

Much of the new technology development occurring now is aimed at finding better ways to sever the thick, tough steel structures and wellheads so that they can be removed.

October 31, 2014 • Stephen Rassenfoss • Journal of Petroleum Technology
LNG

FLNG: Applying Advanced Technology To Bring More Natural Gas to Market

The constraints of space and seaworthiness required the designers of Shell’s joint-venture floating-liquefied-natural-gas (FLNG) facility to assemble these technologies in novel configurations.

Locked
January 31, 2016 • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Decommissioning

Aging Offshore Fields Demand New Thinking

When he started his firm focused on removing obsolete offshore structures, Brian Twomey chose the name: Reverse Engineering Services. The thinking was that taking out a structure is like building it, but in reverse.

October 31, 2014 • Stephen Rassenfoss • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Technology

Wellbore Strengthening: The Mechanical Option

Before many of the new chemical and nanoparticle technologies for wellbore strengthening arrived to the marketplace, casing while drilling (CWD) was used for more than a decade to mechanically achieve the same end.

October 31, 2014 • Trent Jacobs • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Oil Tests at Extreme Conditions Yield New Data for Reservoir Modeling

Drilling in the extremely deep waters of the US Gulf of Mexico has revealed huge oil reservoirs, and gaps in the industry’s capabilities.

October 31, 2014 • Stephen Rassenfoss • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Drilling

Root-Cause Analysis of Drilling Lost Returns in Injectite Reservoirs

The work presented combines a fundamental-physics approach with field data to identify the root cause of drilling failures in Paleocene and Eocene injectite-sand intervals.

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January 31, 2016 • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Automation Program Looks Outside Industry for Inspiration

The University of Texas at Austin (UT) will launch an initiative in April to promote cross-discipline collaboration and student research on automated technology in the oil field.

February 28, 2015 • Jack Betz • Journal of Petroleum Technology

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