Asset Management
Talos Energy founder Tim Duncan has been named executive chairman of newly formed 1947 Oil&Gas, which will focus on acquiring and developing mature, shallow-water assets through its buyout of Renaissance Offshore. The deal is expected to close in Q2 2026.
Operators aren’t rushing to drill, even as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz drives oil prices up.
The following three papers show challenges and potential solutions across various stages of the deepwater well-development cycle from a variety of deepwater basins across the world.
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EVP Giulia Chierchia and Chairman Helge Lund are stepping down amidst difficult Q1. -
The rapid development of oil and gas intelligent operations depends on artificial intelligence, automation, and data analytics to achieve optimal conditions in oil and gas operations.
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The Offshore Technology Conference has announced the 2025 Spotlight on New Technology Award winners—nine game-changing innovations shaping the future of offshore energy. Join the celebration at 1600 CDT on Monday, 5 May, at the NRG Center, Houston.
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Effective exploitation of deepwater assets, which often present extraordinary challenges, requires continuous flexibility, reflected in the approaches developed in these papers.
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The Norwegian technology developer is working to strengthen the value case for wired pipe through an upcoming offshore campaign with Vår Energi.
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Updates about global exploration and production activities and developments.
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This article is the second in a Q&A series from the SPE Research and Development Technical Section focusing on emerging energy technologies. In this piece, Madhava Syamlal, CEO and founder of QubitSolve, discusses the present and future of quantum computing.
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New strategies for protecting metal infrastructure emerge as operators fine-tune a corrosion threat screening process and develop a new method for tracking inhibitor effectiveness.
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This paper describes the operator’s digital-twin end-to-end production system deployed for model-based surveillance and optimization.
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This paper highlights nontraditional methods to cure oil-based-mud losses in horizontal wells drilled in unconventional plays.
