Asset Management
Operators struggle to understand proppant placement beyond the fracture, and that’s the information that could be the key to boosting EUR.
High-risk, high-reward projects focused on stimulation, enhanced recovery, and field-scale deployment are eligible under the DOE’s new UNLOCK initiative.
Industry forecasts point to increasing upstream expenditure and production, even as geopolitical volatility and smaller discoveries challenge project economics.
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The two oil companies will spend more than $400 million to find targets in the expansive offshore area that is currently the subject of the world’s largest 3D survey. -
The new field is the fourth exploration well the operator has drilled offshore Norway in the past 16 months.
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Aside from being the right thing to do, improving labor rights and worker welfare has a compelling commercial case. When workers are happy and engaged, they tend to work more safely and efficiently and the risk of delays and disputes is minimized.
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Shell ended the year by announcing more writedowns, pushing the total near $22 billion, and raising questions about the future of its Appomattox platform in the Gulf of Mexico
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In a year defined by a historically harsh oil-price crash that rippled with collateral damage across the industry, the most-read JPT report of 2020 was about a well so different, it needed a new name.
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The two deals have a combined valued of $3 billion and involve more than 81,500 acres in the Midland Basin of Texas.
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Technology company Proserv Controls has formed an alliance with software engineering firm Intelligent Plant in an effort to combine their expertise to improve control systems and data analysis.
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The UN says the 2020 Climate Action Summit delivered a surge in progress toward climate goals.
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Sale to Total was completed 10 November
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With one of the world’s lowest electrification rates, Mozambique is moving to give its citizens a brighter future. Together with South Africa’s Sasol, the country endeavors to attract global EPCM companies and international financing to create a power generation hub fueled by gas from onshore fields.
