monitoring

Methane monitoring using improved methods is detecting more gas in the atmosphere, increasing the need for better ways to eliminate releases.

The complete paper provides an overview of the development of fiber-optic sensing for steam-assisted-gravity-drainage (SAGD) applications, including a review of more than 10 years of work in development and field applications in western Canada.

The complete paper describes a work flow in which wells and production networks in the Cheleken Block offshore Turkmenistan are automatically modeled daily with steady-state and transient tools and ultimately analyzed by the Cheleken Block Central Data Gathering System.

One tech company is using a unique approach to building custom apps for the oil and gas business.

The Southwest Partnership on Carbon Sequestration (SWP) is one of seven large-scale demonstration projects sponsored by the US Department of Energy.

Use of unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor pipeline networks for theft and other issues is discussed.

Newly developed ambient seismic imaging methods provide valuable information throughout the life cycle of an unconventional field.

Mechanical-diversion techniques can ensure acid injection into the various intervals of naturally fractured reservoirs.

This paper provides an operator’s viewpoint of in-well monitoring, covering some of the key challenges.

The US government is working on regulations to reduce oil industry methane emissions by more than 40% over the next 10 years.