R&D/innovation
This article is the fifth in a Q&A series from the SPE Research and Development Technical Section focusing on emerging energy technologies. In this edition, Shantanu Agarwal, founder and CEO of Mati Carbon, discusses how the company’s approach to carbon removal led to winning the Musk Foundation’s XPRIZE in 2025.
EERC CEO Charles Gorecki outlines how applied research in North Dakota is helping improve oil recovery, reduce emissions, and advance carbon storage.
2025 has seen an 81% year-on-year rise in the number of small modular reactor (SMR) designs to have secured at least one source of funding or a funding commitment.
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The winners of this year’s Drillbotics competition are teams from the University of Stavanger and Clausthal University of Technology. Thirteen teams registered last fall, coming from seven countries spanning four continents. -
The projects are expected to remove more than 2 million metric tons of CO2 emissions annually from the atmosphere.
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SponsoredThe Wyoming Gas Injection Initiative (WGII) makes available $22 million of matching funds from the State of Wyoming to implement, in close collaboration with oil and gas operators and Dow, multiple field pilot projects in the State of Wyoming. The Initiative will fund projects over a 3- to 5-year period to support developments with significant potential to enhance wel…
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Operators share emissions-mitigation research insights amid calls to accelerate to meet 2030 goals.
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With the acquisition of manufacturing firm Revak Keene, Fox Innovation and Technologies plans to launch technology aimed at disrupting the compressor and rotating equipment aftermarket status quo.
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Leading energy technology companies unite to unlock efficiencies and increase reserve recoveries using digital advances.
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SPE’s professional membership has an important role to play in mitigating climate change concerns and in developing new low- or no-carbon sources of energy. We offer a forum for presenting and disseminating scientifically vetted technical information about what can be and is being done by our members.
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A decade ago, SPE defined key R&D and technology challenges for the industry. To address the more uncertain environment of the 2020s and beyond, we have updated the grand challenges via a January 2023 SPE workshop.
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Picking up the pace of innovation and demonstration of advanced nuclear reactors is required if nuclear is to play a role in decarbonization beyond electricity by providing low-carbon heat or hydrogen.
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The first long-haul overland conveyor system to deliver proppant is under construction in the Permian Basin.
