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    Drilling
    How Halliburton’s Newest LWD Tool Delivers Look‑Ahead Capabilities to Horizontal Drillers
    The service giant shares how its new technology can sense rock properties 50 ft ahead of the bit in horizontal wells.
    Locked
    July 1, 2025 • Trent Jacobs • Journal of Petroleum Technology
  • Fig. 1—US gas-dominated shale plays’ average well costs over time. Shale plays: Haynesville, Marcellus, Montney, and Scoop/Stack.
    Unconventional/complex reservoirs
    Completion and Reservoir Data Deciphers Productivity Drivers in Unconventional Plays
    This study aims to thoroughly assess the influence of various completions, fracturing stimulation, and intrinsic reservoir properties affecting the productivity of 10 major unconventional plays while uncovering insights and trends unique to each play
    Locked
    July 1, 2025 • Journal of Petroleum Technology
  • Fig. 1—Experimental setup used for pressure-decay measurements to estimate permeability.
    Unconventional/complex reservoirs
    Workflow Improves Assessment of Permeability in Tight Rock Samples
    This paper introduces new methods to perform reliable permeability and saturation-dependent relative permeability measurements in organic-rich mudrock core samples using a pressure-decay setup.
    Locked
    July 1, 2025 • Journal of Petroleum Technology
  • Micro-CT apparatus (X-ray microscope) for rock samples characterization
    Decarbonization
    Workflow Integrates Analytical, Modeling Activities for CCS Application
    The authors of this paper present a workflow designed to achieve maximum integration between analytical and modeling activities in carbon capture and storage projects.
    Locked
    July 1, 2025 • Journal of Petroleum Technology
  • Fig. 1—Pressure comparison of three landing plans.
    Unconventional/complex reservoirs
    Field Study Explores Condensate-Banking Effect in Unconventional Gas-Condensate Reservoir
    This paper investigates condensate-banking effects on well performance by conducting field-modeling studies on Delaware Basin deep Wolfcamp condensate producers using compositional simulation models with hydraulic fractures.
    Locked
    July 1, 2025 • Journal of Petroleum Technology
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    Unconventional/complex reservoirs
    Unconventional and Tight Reservoirs-2025
    This month’s selections of unconventional technology articles investigate the factors affecting productivity and performance and highlight the need for effective strategies to enhance performance and mitigate impairment issues.
    July 1, 2025 • Larissa Walker • Journal of Petroleum Technology
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    R&D/innovation
    Comments: If US Shale Levels Off, Will Innovation Pick Up the Slack?
    As US shale potentially stares at a production plateau, operators and service providers are turning to smarter tools to extend the life of aging plays.
    July 1, 2025 • Trent Jacobs • Journal of Petroleum Technology
  • Fig. 1—Well locations for full-field simulation.
    Reservoir simulation
    Cost-Effective Reservoir Simulation Technology Optimizes CCS Development
    The authors present an efficient workflow using an embedded discrete fracture model to simulate carbon-dioxide flow by use of conductive faults.
    Locked
    July 1, 2025 • Journal of Petroleum Technology
  • Fig. 1—Overall workflow.
    Reservoir simulation
    Workflow Enables Thermal Dynamic Simulation of CO₂ Storage in Depleted Gas Reservoirs
    This paper provides guidelines for thermal modeling for carbon capture and storage projects in a depleted gas field.
    Locked
    July 1, 2025 • Journal of Petroleum Technology
  • Coastal Bend model (horizontal permeability). Faults are shown in black
    Reservoir simulation
    Workflow Allows Unstructured Coarse Gridding and Upscaling of Models for Flow Simulation
    The authors of this paper present an adaptive grid-coarsening approach based on constraints that honor reservoir structure and stratigraphy, preserve fluid volumes and contacts, and retain resolution near wells.
    Locked
    July 1, 2025 • Journal of Petroleum Technology
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    Reservoir
    SPE Reservoir Technical Discipline and Advisory Committee Launch Global Survey
    The SPE Reservoir Technical Discipline and Advisory Committee invite their Reservoir members worldwide to participate in a new survey aimed at assessing the current state of reservoir engineering across industry and academia. Deadline is 21 July 2025.
    June 25, 2025 • Journal of Petroleum Technology
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    Reservoir
    Chevron Joins Race To Drill for US Lithium
    The supermajor follows other oil companies including ExxonMobil, Equinor, and Occidental Petroleum in the hunt to bolster US supplies of lithium.
    June 19, 2025 • Trent Jacobs • Journal of Petroleum Technology
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    Enhanced recovery
    URTeC: Untapped Potential: Enhanced Recovery Could Keep Shale Plays Producing
    Secondary and tertiary efforts are critical for sustaining the productive lives of unconventional plays.
    June 13, 2025 • Jennifer Pallanich • Journal of Petroleum Technology
  • Illustration depicting the historic fall in the price of oil with an oil well in silhouette in the background
    Business/economics
    Diamondback’s Viper Energy Boosts Permian Position With $4.1 Billion Acquisition
    Viper Energy is acquiring Sitio Royalties Corp. and its more than 25,000 net acres of royalty interests across major US shale plays.
    June 4, 2025 • Trent Jacobs • Journal of Petroleum Technology
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    Business/economics
    EOG’s $5.6 Billion Purchase of EAP To Transform Utica Portfolio
    Extensive acreage overlap and existing operational collaboration drove the acquisition decision.
    June 2, 2025 • Jennifer Pallanich • Journal of Petroleum Technology
  • Comparison of oil viscosity and injected polymer viscosity for various field projects.
    Enhanced recovery
    Review Investigates Selection of Viscosities for Injected Polymers
    This paper discusses the effect of injected-polymer viscosity on various aspects of a project, from recovery to surface facilities, including both theoretical arguments and practical field experience—which do not always align.
    Locked
    June 1, 2025 • Journal of Petroleum Technology
  • Fig. 1—Illustration of successful biosurfactant squeeze application. Green dots indicate the presence of biosurfactant. During the application stage, biosurfactant is delivered across the entire well lateral. During the return to production, biosurfactants are present in crude oil produced from all zones.
    Enhanced recovery
    Study Using Multifunctional Biosurfactants Offers Insight Into Bakken EOR
    This paper provides details of a pilot study conducted on multiple wells, showcasing the potential of a novel biotechnology in Bakken enhanced oil recovery.
    Locked
    June 1, 2025 • Journal of Petroleum Technology
  • A pumpjack on the prairie. Alberta, Canada. This oil rig is located near Turner Valley, Alberta
    Acidizing/stimulation
    Targeted Acid-Stimulation Technique Enhances Production in the Montney
    The authors of this paper describe a method of stimulating a multizone hydrocarbon-producing well wherein a tool is deployed downhole by wireline to generate acid vapor at a target depth, allowing each interval to be treated uniquely.
    Locked
    June 1, 2025 • Journal of Petroleum Technology
  • Fig. 1—Example of microseismic response on UB (top) and UW (bottom). Gun-barrel depth views are shown as contoured moment densities relative to treatment wells (star) and main stratigraphic tops.
    Enhanced recovery
    Approach Interprets Fracture Growth Through Microseismic Quiescent Zones
    In this work, microseismic observations are integrated with strain and other observations to investigate the microseismic response in relation to the underlying hydraulic fracture geometry for different rock types.
    Locked
    June 1, 2025 • Journal of Petroleum Technology
  • Fig. 1—New well-interference-test scenario with integration of fiber-optic and external pressure gauges. BHP = bottomhole pressure.
    Fracturing/pressure pumping
    Approach Quantifies Well Connections With Monitoring-Well Responses
    This work proposes a method to interpret far-field strain-change and pressure data to quantify fracture connectivity and properties at the cluster level.
    Locked
    June 1, 2025 • Journal of Petroleum Technology
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