Field/project development
While discussions on the commercial terms for gas sales continue, the release of the jackup rig intended to drill production wells calls into question Shell’s plans for first gas in 2027.
As Egypt’s largest oil and gas investor, Eni is ramping up its 2026–2027 drilling campaign with new investments cross the Mediterranean offshore, Nile Delta, Western Desert, and offshore Sinai to strengthen the country’s role as a regional gas and LNG export hub.
The papers selected for this year’s feature collectively highlight the ongoing transformation of field-development planning across the oil and gas industry. A common theme among these papers is the integration of subsurface, drilling, facilities, and operational workflows into unified development frameworks.
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This paper describes a novel distributed quasi-Newton derivative-free optimization method for reservoir-performance-optimization problems. -
The complete paper builds on existing tools in the literature to quantify the effect of changing well spacing on well productivity for a given completion design, using a new, simple, intuitive empirical equation.
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This paper describes a development plan for an oil field discovered in a remote offshore environment in the Niger Delta that uses a probabilistic approach to estimate the STOOIP using low, mid, and high cases.
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The authors of this paper describe a project that integrates carbonate stratigraphic forward models of outcropping formations and reservoir-modeling work flows.
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A trio of oil projects gears up to boost throughput on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System.
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LLOG Exploration looks to engineering partner to assist with its ambitious platform re-use project in the Gulf of Mexico.
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The French producer has taken final investment decision on the deepwater Begonia field, plus natural gas and solar developments.
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ExxonMobil awarded the consortium the project management, engineering, and installation of the estimated 190-km pipeline.
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ExxonMobil LNG Asia Pacific will purchase 1.0 mtpa from Rio Grande LNG plant over a 20-year period.
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Schlumberger, Subsea 7 alliance will supply and install a subsea boosting system in GOM field.
