R&D/innovation
Working with Dell Technologies and NVIDIA, the French supermajor is targeting improved seismic processing and artificial intelligence applications.
Acting director of the new center Ale Hakala outlines the research priorities guiding the newly established center’s focus on production enhancement technologies.
Drilling experts recently shared candid views on what will be required for their segment of the upstream business to move to the next stage of development.
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The results are in. Here are this year’s “Most Promising” startups as decided by upstream investors and oil company innovation teams -
The US Department of Energy has announced up to $20 million in federal funding for cooperative agreements that will help accelerate the deployment of carbon capture, utilization, and storage.
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Fed by big data loads from big operators, a university consortium and software firm are each working to make upstream data access as quick and easy as a Google search.
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The organizations will receive more than $4.1 million for research projects aiming to improve protocols to minimize the environmental effect of oil spills in water.
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Pictures shot in fractured wells show how a high-pressure slurry of water and sand carves up the perforations.
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Contrary to popular imagination, which favors John Wayne stereotypes heroically rescuing the oil industry with wrench and hammer, the oilfield is a place of exquisite engineering, the match of anything on Earth, a marvel of innovation at the biggest and smallest scales.
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Technology transfer in the oil business is too often discussed from a lens of bringing in outside innovations. But what happens when innovation escapes the industry’s orbit and finds a new home?
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JPT asked several active SPE members about the appeal of petroleum engineering, the significance of the work they do, and what the future may hold. Here are some of their answers.
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Unconventional development has made it clear to Erdal Ozkan that conventional theory overlooks a lot of potentially productive rock. He talks about looking for ways to do better as part of JPT’s tech director report.
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Producers in Texas have claimed an economic victory with their transition to local sands that they once avoided using in horizontal wells due to their low-quality.
