Asset Management
With confidence in subsea boosting performance growing, BP is incorporating pumping systems into both greenfield developments and brownfield expansions.
After years of market shocks, technological breakthroughs, and rising uncertainty, ATCE 2026 will provide new insights on how industry leaders and technical experts are preparing for the next era of the upstream business.
This guest editorial examines why geothermal projects require a different planning, financing, and development approach than traditional oil and gas projects.
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SPE’s professional membership has an important role to play in mitigating climate change concerns and in developing new low- or no-carbon sources of energy. We offer a forum for presenting and disseminating scientifically vetted technical information about what can be and is being done by our members. -
A decade ago, SPE defined key R&D and technology challenges for the industry. To address the more uncertain environment of the 2020s and beyond, we have updated the grand challenges via a January 2023 SPE workshop.
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Follow-up sidetrack tested up to 5,000 B/D of oil.
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CNPC’s record-breaking 11,100-m exploration borehole in the Taklamakan Desert promises to unlock the science of producing oil and gas trapped in the world’s deepest reservoirs.
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First gas is flowing from IOG’s Blythe H2 well, part of the Southern Banks gas development in the UK southern North Sea.
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Challenges including increases in UK taxation have prompted operator Parkmead Group to drop plans to develop its Greater Perth project in the North Sea.
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Picking up the pace of innovation and demonstration of advanced nuclear reactors is required if nuclear is to play a role in decarbonization beyond electricity by providing low-carbon heat or hydrogen.
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The record-setting probe has yielded a discovery estimated to be between 53–90 million BOE.
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Successful well trio adds as much as 30 million BOE of recoverable reserves.
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You don’t have to choose between what’s good for the business and what’s good for employees in the quest to drive productivity and profits. What you need is to invest in employee engagement.
