Drilling
This study identifies critical knowledge gaps in wellbore integrity and underscores areas that require further investigation, providing insights into how wellbores must evolve to meet the technical demands of the energy transition.
This study illustrates the new capabilities, tailored for CO₂ storage applications, of a modeling framework that provides a quantitative, risk-based assessment of the long-term integrity of legacy plugged and abandoned wells.
Two critical facets of the discipline of well control and wellbore integrity—decarbonization and groundbreaking automation of essential processes—are highlighted in the three primary paper selections presented at SPE and SPE-affiliated conferences during the past year.
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Advancements in new technologies and rigorous testing methods have enabled the authors of the three SPE papers featured this year to outline a path forward, offering new possibilities that uphold the core objectives of safety and productivity. -
This paper tests several commercial large language models for information-retrieval tasks for drilling data using zero-shot, in-context learning.
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Leading drilling consultant John de Wardt separates hype from reality and explores what’s ahead in this interview with JPT.
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Oil price visibility, projects competing for funds, and regional market softness are all factors resulting in muted demand for deepwater rigs this year.
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Partners will go back to the drawing board to design a new well to reach the prospect’s primary objectives.
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Turnwell said it achieved a new well delivery time as it begins a massive contract to develop the UAE’s unconventional gas resources.
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New IEA Report: Next-Generation Geothermal Can Go Global, But Oil and Gas Industry Must Show the WayThe upstream sector could help unlock geothermal energy’s potential but up to $1 trillion in project spending would be necessary over the next decade, the report says.
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The drilling contractor is spending big to deploy natural-gas-powered microgrids and battery storage.
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The proposed facility would be used to accelerate innovations in lithium extraction, carbon storage, and geothermal energy in addition to oil and gas technologies.
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At SPE’s Permian Basin Energy Conference, operators shared behind-the-scenes details on innovations such as drilling horseshoe wells and trimulfrac completions along with in-basin challenges such as handling produced water.
