R&D/innovation
Technology developers expect the tight-oil industry to give lightweight proppants another look after the Permian Basin’s biggest operator becomes an adopter.
GeoMap Europe is the latest in a series of interactive global geothermal maps that combine large subsurface and surface data sets to highlight where geothermal resources and development opportunities are strongest for power, heat, cooling, and storage.
The North Sea Transition Authority’s survey highlights shifting innovation and deployment priorities across 46 operators, offering a basinwide snapshot of technologies driving efficiency gains, strengthening asset integrity, and accelerating progress toward net-zero performance in the UK North Sea.
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Hear first-hand from the first-ever chief technology officer at the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, Alan Nelson, about the integrated operator's digital transformation strategy. -
The Offshore Technology Conference announces the 2020 recipients of the Spotlight on New Technology Award. Eighteen technologies from 14 companies from around the world will be awarded this year, including six companies that will be recognized for the Spotlight on Small Business Award.
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The JIPs managed by DNV GL and Berenschot focused on 3D-printed-component certification and supply chain set-up.
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Producers and investors continue to reward small companies with big solutions that lean on new software and hardware to lift the bottom line of one the world’s few trillion-dollar industries.
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Researchers described the temperature changes at the point where liquid meets the vapor during evaporation. The explanation, developed using the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo method, will allow scientists to more accurately simulate the performance of systems based on the theory of evaporation.
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Heavy production spiked in two Canadian wells heated by an electric cable, but it is hard to find customers there at a time when Canadian oil prices and customers remember cables in the past that died young.
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With a $10 million commitment from Shell, Rice University has launched Carbon Hub, a research initiative with the goal of creating a zero-emissions world by using oil and gas to create clean energy.
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For the past 20 years, the diagnostic fracture injection test has been used across the frontlines of the shale revolution to paint a picture of what cannot be seen. However, that picture has not always been so clear in the eyes of subsurface engineers.
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With 2020 on the horizon, JPT editors put together our Top 10 list of technologies and ideas to keep an eye on in the coming year.
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Many confuse “an” innovation model for “the” innovation model, and we have confounded innovators with entrepreneurs. They are not the same thing.
