Asset Management
Thanks to stepout-well and tieback technologies, Shell’s Mars platform is the first single offshore platform in the US Gulf to produce 1 billion bbl of crude over its lifetime with production expected to continue into the 2040s.
The new guidelines were released prior to reports that enhanced geothermal developer Fervo Energy experienced a blowout in Utah with no reported injuries.
Aramco says it has saved $770 million over the past 3 years from the $70 million it has invested over the same period in corrosion management technologies.
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New round covers 41 parcels across almost 10.3 million hectares off Newfoundland and Labrador -
Matthew Bryant has spent years trying to convince engineers that the API proppant testing standard has significant limitations. And he may well be right.
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Developing alternative power supplies with wide-scale reliability, dependability, and minimization or elimination of GHG emissions within feasible capex/opex scenarios is the brass ring of sustainability and energy security—and data are helping us get there.
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This paper presents the completion strategy implemented in an intelligent well completed in Malaysian deepwater Block K.
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This paper describes dynamic reservoir characterization considerations, challenges, and engineering solutions used to derisk field-development decisions confirmed by a well-testing campaign in a complex setting.
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This paper describes development-plan optimization and a probabilistic uncertainty study using Latin hypercube experimental design constrained to production performance in a deepwater Gulf of Mexico field.
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This paper presents the design and development of a prototype intelligent water-injection and smart allocation tool aimed at achieving autonomous waterflood operations.
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This paper described the use of digital twin technology to identify design modifications required at an onshore site and visualize proposed offshore assets for a Trinidad and Tobago development.
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Intelligent technology plays a role in applications ranging from design to completions to data management and most points in between. However, this feature topic is devoted to SPE papers that discuss system-oriented innovations to increase production, reduce costs, and decrease risk.
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Rigorous engineering remains the key platform to accomplish the dizzying array of complex work on a daily basis and the linchpin in elevating the performance of deepwater projects from acquisition to abandonment.
