R&D

Adaptability, collaboration, and digital technologies are all pages in Aramco’s oilfield R&D playbook.

EERC CEO Charles Gorecki outlines how applied research in North Dakota is helping improve oil recovery, reduce emissions, and advance carbon storage.

The global oilfield service company is working with Ormat Technologies to boost its integrated geothermal business.

The company announced that its geothermal system operated for more than 3,000 hours, which it said validates the technology’s commercial potential.

SPE members who are in Houston next month can join thousands of peers with a complimentary exhibition pass to ATCE 2025.

BlackBrush Oil & Gas tells JPT about its use of natural gas liquids and condensate to increase oil recovery in horizontal shale wells.

The upstream industry has viewed real-time completions as a long-term goal, but the technology is already in use.

This article is the third in a Q&A series from the SPE Research and Development Technical Section focusing on emerging energy technologies. In this piece, Zikri Bayraktar, a senior machine learning engineer with SLB’s Software Technology and Innovation Center, discusses the expanding use of artificial intelligence in the upstream sector.

Gold H2 says it is the first to achieve commercial-scale hydrogen production by introducing microbes to a mature oil reservoir.

The university's 142-ft multiphase flow loop tower is a 10-story engineering marvel pushing the boundaries of petroleum research in production operations, flow assurance, and safe offshore drilling.