SEPTEMBER 2025 • VOL. 77, NO. 9
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Features
Comments: ATCE 2025: Where You Will Find Solutions, People, and Energy
SPE members that are in Houston next month can join thousands of peers with a complimentary exhibition pass to ATCE 2025.
Guest Editorial: Ensuring Success of the 4th Industrial Revolution Downhole: Why Downhole Wireless Communication, Command Are Critical to the Transformation
Intelligent completions could improve many of the world’s oil and gas wells, but not all are suited to the technology. There is another option.
Oilfield Intelligence: Generative AI Applications Deliver Real-World Value
Oil and gas experts encourage human-AI partnerships that can “supercharge” capabilities to create competitive advantages.
Q&A With 2026 SPE President Jennifer Miskimins—Energizing Tomorrow: Solutions, People, Energy
Jennifer Miskimins will take office as 2026 SPE President during the 2025 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in October. She shares her views of the challenges facing our industry and SPE members, her outlook for our industry, and what her goals will be during her presidency.
From Coke to Crude: ExxonMobil Pumping Refinery-Sourced Proppant in Hundreds of Permian Basin Wells
The US supermajor is using one of its lowest-value hydrocarbon products to generate double-digit production increases in its most prolific US asset.
R&D Technical Section Q&A: Drilling Automation—People, Process, and the Rise of Smart Rigs
This article is the fourth in a Q&A series from the SPE Research and Development Technical Section focusing on emerging energy technologies. In this piece, David Reid, the CTO and CMO for NOV, discusses the evolution and current state of automated drilling systems.
Case Study: High-Expansion Dissolvable Plug for Casing-Deformation Challenges in Plug-and-Perf Operations
Casing deformation has emerged as a major challenge in China’s unconventional oil and gas fields, prompting the development of new solutions to address the issue.
E&P Notes
Updates about global exploration and production activities and developments.
People
In Memoriam: September 2025
Technology Focus Synopses
Reservoir Surveillance
Muhammad Navaid Khan, ADNOC
Controlled-Source Electromagnetics Provide Promise for CCS Applications
Fiber Optics Monitor CO2 Injection in Carbonate Saline Aquifer
ML-Based Co-Optimization Framework Improves CO2 Sequestration and Oil Recovery
Field Development
Maan H. Alasfoor, Petroleum Development of Oman
Mixed Integer Programming Optimizes Well Placement
Structured Project-Management Approach Accelerates Marginal Field Development
Hybrid Workflow Enables Efficient Field Development Planning and Execution
Offshore Facilities
Avinashkumar Karre, Brown and Root
Subsea Connectors Designed for Repair of Corrosion-Resistant-Alloy-Clad Pipelines
Response-Based Forecasting of Vessel Motion Shifts to Data-Driven Methods
Mobile Platform Enables AI-Powered Underwater Image Processing
Oilfield Chemistry
Sajjaat Muhemmed, Clariant Oil Services
Nanoparticles Aid Extraction of Lithium From Oilfield Brines
Decoupling Phosphonate Scale-Inhibitor Adsorption and Precipitation Mechanisms
Study Explores Accelerated Carbon Capture and Storage Through Mineral Carbonation
SPE Technical Papers Available for Download — August-September 2025
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