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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If optimized to scale, fast fission reactors could play a role in reducing emissions in field operations by producing carbon-free electricity. -
The updated joint development agreement allows the companies to carve out new markets while they complete pilot testing at a demonstration plant in the Netherlands.
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The project will implement two distinct carbon technologies aimed at capturing and storing carbon dioxide. Svante’s CEO Claude Letourneau describes his company’s solid-sorbent technology used in collaboration with Climeworks, one of the awarded companies.
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The use of oil-based muds has precluded countless drill cuttings from being used to predict reservoir fluids despite once being part of the reservoir. A 6-decade-old technology may be on the cusp of changing that.
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The challenges that geothermal energy faces to become a leading player in the net-zero world are well within the areas of expertise of the SPE community, ranging from rapid technology implementation and learning-by-doing to assure competitiveness to establishing suitable funding mechanisms to secure access to capital.
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Pink hydrogen, produced through water electrolysis powered by nuclear energy, recently drew attention which underscored the complexity of decision-making in advancing such projects.
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Jim Gable, president of Chevron Technology Ventures, shares how CTV works with startups and how their technologies go big.
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The developer of the recently emerged anchorbit technology is preparing to drill its first geothermal well next year in Germany.
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Derived from the principles of radial jet drilling, a new technology called micro-turbine drilling is developed to allow for drilling of micro-sidetracks from cased boreholes in very hard reservoir rock.
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A total of 15 companies, including five small businesses, were recognized this year for their demonstrated advancements in the industry.
