R&D/innovation
The startup company’s Midland Basin demonstration plant, located in the Permian Basin, takes a major step toward commercialization by proving its direct lithium extraction technology can refine battery-grade lithium carbonate from produced water under multiple 24/7 production cycles.
This case study outlines a full-scale testing program focused on the behavior of thermal casing connections subjected to severe bending and low-cycle fatigue loading.
This article from the SPE Research and Development Technical Section offers new insights to how the upstream industry can benefit from the emergence of quantum computing.
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The Earth has huge capacity to store carbon dioxide emitted from energy production. This article discusses the technology of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) and its challenges. -
his paper presents research and application of a sustainable, low-density geopolymer alternative to Portland cement for cementing applications in low-temperature wells.
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A new partnership aims to leverage technology developed for geothermal wells to create a new drilling system for complex offshore wells.
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The company behind a 42-mile sand conveyor system is now leaning into autonomous vehicles for proppant logistics.
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The process developed by Moscow’s Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology shows promising results in the laboratory, suggesting a novel method to produce hydrogen from natural gas reservoirs while trapping carbon in permanent storage.
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SponsoredTAQA bears the burden of reducing carbon emissions from the fossil fuel energy cycle and pays its undivided attention to decarbonizing its operations. In this article, it sheds light on its initiatives and approach to decarbonizing the oil and gas exploration and production industry.
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The retrofit merged enhanced gravity separation with induced gas flotation within the same vessel. Detailed insights into the design, operation, and performance of hybrid flotation systems are provided, offering valuable guidance for similar initiatives in the petroleum industry.
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The honor recognizes recipients for their lasting and significant contributions in the field of IOR.
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As Azerbaijan prepares to host COP29, JPT looks back at how the country prospered for millennia on its largess of oil and gas and its unique geography along the ancient Silk Road that today is traversed by pipelines delivering gas and oil to Europe from the depths of the Caspian Sea.
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Pilots and papers are plentiful, but the shale sector has no big enhanced oil recovery projects to speak of. It may just have to stay that way for a while.
