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The award comes as a contract release purchase order under a long-term agreement that simplifies ongoing efforts to maintain mature field production in Saudi Arabia.
With the Vaca Muerta home to some of the world’s most-productive wells, and the Permian still going strong, if increasingly gassier, Rystad sees shale as resilient.
Changgui Xu will receive the 2026 Individual Distinguished Award, and CNOOC will receive the 2026 Institutional Distinguished Award.
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For the past 20 years, the diagnostic fracture injection test has been used across the frontlines of the shale revolution to paint a picture of what cannot be seen. However, that picture has not always been so clear in the eyes of subsurface engineers.
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The industry is becoming increasingly complex, leading to changes in how universities approach education for undergraduate study.
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The succession at the top role comes amid the independent’s expansion beyond the Eastern Med, with recent acquisitions of North Sea and US Gulf of Mexico assets.
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Most of ConocoPhillips’ oil and gas production by the end of the next decade will come from its unconventional operations. But, for the near-term, the Houston independent will rely on conventional assets as it seeks to keep spending in check, decline rates low, and cash flow on the rise.
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With 2020 on the horizon, JPT editors put together our Top 10 list of technologies and ideas to keep an eye on in the coming year.
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Many confuse “an” innovation model for “the” innovation model, and we have confounded innovators with entrepreneurs. They are not the same thing.
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The BigRoll Bering was spotted leaving Corpus Christi, Texas, on 17 November, headed for the Peregrino heavy-oil field offshore Brazil. Drilling modules and a flare boom are being transported for the field’s Phase 2 development.
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The plan targets some $50 billion in free cash flow over the period while growing production more than 3%/year.
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Business Development VP Kirstie Boyle joins The SPE Podcast to talk startups. Recently part of a $4.5-million funding round, Kirstie shares what makes Interface Fluidics flow.
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A newly developed superhydrophobic coating keeps offshore drilling pipes from being clogged by various substances. R&D Magazine recently recognized the coating and the unique process to apply it to pipes as one of the 100 most significant innovations of 2019.