Management
US oil executives say large-scale investment in Venezuela will depend on governance reforms and sustainable legal protections.
The agreement requires the partners to conduct their own proprietary 3D survey of Block 8 in hope of zeroing in on the sweet spot that eluded the TotalEnergies-led consortium when it drilled a dry hole in an adjacent block in 2023.
Murphy Oil’s Hai Su Vang (Golden Sea Lion) appraisal well reinforces the commerciality of the 2025 discovery.
-
Electricity produced onshore powers oil production at Johan Sverdrup holding CO₂ emissions at only 5% of the global average.
-
Successful in other applications, self-healing coatings could be the oil industry’s ticket to fighting corrosion and extending the life of steel.
-
Shell became the first international company to operate producing fields offshore Brazil and the first to navigate the country’s complex and detailed decommissioning permitting process, which involved extensive environmental assessments, regulatory approvals, and coordinated stakeholder engagement.
-
The service giant shares how its new technology can sense rock properties 50 ft ahead of the bit in horizontal wells.
-
As carbon capture scales up worldwide, the real challenge lies deep underground—where smart reservoir management determines whether CO₂ stays put for good.
-
This paper aims to describe the role of liquefied natural gas as a transitional energy source for automobile transportation in Nigeria.
-
Updates about global exploration and production activities and developments.
-
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.
-
As US shale potentially stares at a production plateau, operators and service providers are turning to smarter tools to extend the life of aging plays.
-
This article presents a results-driven case study from an ongoing collaboration between a midstream oil and gas company and Neuralix Inc.