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Electricity produced onshore powers oil production at Johan Sverdrup holding CO₂ emissions at only 5% of the global average.
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.
Successful in other applications, self-healing coatings could be the oil industry’s ticket to fighting corrosion and extending the life of steel.
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This paper aims to close some of the many knowledge gaps that exist in the field of drilling CO₂ storage wells, a task that is expected to involve handling an influx of CO₂ into the drilling fluid. -
This paper describes a polymer-injection pilot in the Chichimene heavy oil field in Colombia.
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This paper describes numerical modeling studies of fracture-driven interactions using a coupled hydraulic-fracturing-propagation, reservoir-flow, and geomechanics tool.
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Updates about global exploration and production activities and developments.
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What we’ve learned about faster drilling in oil and gas applied just as well to geothermal development—until we reached The Geysers.
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SponsoredTesting new drilling technology in a controlled and monitored environment before it is launched to its full extent in the field—that is what the Rijswijk Center for Sustainable Geo-energy is all about.
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SponsoredThis article explores the intricacies of this age-old problem, outlining the causes, consequences, and costs of gas locking, as well as highlighting a novel approach to mitigation that has recently been validated by computational fluid dynamics research.
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FPSO to be connected to high-pressure subsea separation technology pilot project.
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Kongsberg Digital and other industry leaders see the arrival of artificial intelligence (AI) as a catalyst for major change in the office and in the field.
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With finite oil reserves, infinite innovation will allow the Permian to endure.
