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How do you make new money from old offshore fields? The choice between investing in older assets or decommissioning them depends on oil and gas prices, the ingenuity of technical people, and the willingness of a company’s executives to hold on to older assets.

This paper provides a comprehensive study for offshore carbon-dioxide (CO2) storage projects, identifying critical elements for estimation, injection, containment, and monitoring of CO2 plumes.

The sale is subject to the closing of the acquisition by BW Energy of the 100% operating working interest in the Golfinho field from Petrobras.

ExxonMobil's departure leaves BP and Shell as the last international oil companies in Iraq.

The acquisition expands Targa’s midstream natural gas processing footprint in the active Delaware Basin of New Mexico.

One of the newest ways to plug and abandon wells and patch casing leaks involves an alloy that flows like water.

Petronas and Pertamina share their technical approach in implementing and optimizing artificial lift using advanced technology and their vision for the future. Their experiences in dealing with operational challenges in a mature field highlight areas for improvement and innovation.

The big oil producers are balancing the chasing of more production with delivering dividends to shareholders. So far, the scale is tipping in favor of shareholders. But it’s not that cut and dried. Simplifying the complexity of the global market shines, at best, a narrow beam on some of the factors affecting production.

It is pleasantly surprising to find a revival in sandstone acidizing. For many years, sandstone acidizing was becoming almost a lost art, overshadowed by carbonate acidizing and hydraulic fracturing.