Production
After launching pre-salt production in Brazil, the ultradeepwater Tupi asset has become one of Petrobras’s most productive.
North Sea operators produced an additional 16 million BOE from 56 reinstated wells in 2025 as improved intervention efficiency lowered costs and helped restore shut-in assets to production, according to the NSTA.
This contributed article highlights the growing importance of fiber-optic sensing and its potential to advance thanks to emerging quantum technologies.
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After 9 years of contributing to JPT, it’s time to hang up my spurs. I wanted to use this opportunity to raise a couple of issues, namely the effect and utility of machine learning and the usage of point-and-click engineering software. -
This paper is the second of a two-part series. It covers facilities problems caused by iron, injectivity problems caused by iron, and the mitigation of colloidal iron-related problems.
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SponsoredGot carbonates? Then you know the challenges of acidizing. A new autonomous outflow control device can give you greater control and significantly improve your results.
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The difficulty in selling a chemical to aid subsea pipeline flow has been delivering it to the wells.
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Mixing dry polymer powder and water to make friction reducer as needed during fracturing can cut the cost of the additive and the testing of whether a drastically simplified recipe performs as well as more-complex mixes.
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As oil prices break through multiyear highs, the heartland of US onshore activity is nearing the record levels of output reached before the pandemic.
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The company announced plans to use a new technology to replace the pneumatic systems that are powered by and also vent a substantial volume of methane at its Barnett Shale operating area in north Texas.
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The investigation and cleanup of the oil spill, originating from a rupture in an Amplify Energy pipeline in the Beta field, is ongoing.
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Production vessel has the capacity to produce up to 180,000 B/D of oil.
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Do you know how many of your organization’s wells are artificially lifted? Or, more importantly, do you know what fraction of your production volumes are dependent on artificial lift? I would wager that the percentages are higher than you would expect, and I encourage you to seek out that information and share it.
