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Successful rejuvenation of two declining fields was enabled through innovation in both engineering and procurement strategy.

The deepwater industry uses technology qualification (TQ) as a tool to determine which safety barriers are needed, and what level of testing is required. Even without failure data from the field, a method has been developed to quantify the integrity of various components.

Intervention and workover operations can significantly affect the structural integrity and fatigue life of subsea-wellhead systems. Methodologies for wellhead-fatigue analysis have improved, but have yet to account for thermal effects along the well. This study analyzes those thermal effects.

Industry operations are shifting toward high-temperature (HT) downhole settings, expensive tubular metallurgy, and extended reach wells, while health, safety, and environmental requirements become stricter.

Energy outlooks by companies, government agencies, and private industry groups identify long-term energy trends and develop projections on supply and demand based on factors such as technological advancement, population trends, the global economy, and policy issues.

The first wells used to search for oil were drilled more than 150 years ago.

SPE recently held an Applied Tech¬nology Workshop (ATW) on “SPE Petroleum Resources Management Systems (PRMS) Reserves and Resources Definitions–Applicable to Both Unconventional and Conventional Resources?” in Penang, Malaysia.

This paper presents a multiple-physical-barrier (MPB) approach to operational risk management by focusing on physical barriers and success paths that enable each barrier to perform its safety functions.

The label unconventional resources, for shale or other nontraditional oil and gas formations, has its detractors.

Optical gas-imaging is effective for visual identification of volatile organic compound (VOC) leaks. But it doesn't currently quantify the leak rate as required by regulations. This paper discusses work aimed at adding that quantification.