R&D/innovation
Ongoing seismicity concerns and orphan well risks are pushing operators and regulators to explore alternatives for managing produced water.
The $26-million project will serve as a collaborative hub for research, engineering, and testing.
The NLR has released its 2025 US Geothermal Market Report, documenting 4 years of industry growth and providing policymakers and stakeholders with an updated overview of the US geothermal market.
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Siemens and GE are among the companies discovering the power of an open-source innovation community to offer solutions for significant oil and gas industry challenges, such as improved corrosion monitoring. -
The Technology Roadmap identifies R&D opportunities that will allow the US to be the leading producer of oil and gas into the future. The importance of technology transfer and time to commercialization is discussed.
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A US-government-sponsored program is putting new methane leak detection systems to the test with a goal of achieving functionality costs of $3,000/year/wellsite while hitting stringent performance criteria.
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R&D is essential for the industry, regardless of the current oil price, and past down markets have spawned some key technology advances, ExxonMobil researcher Erika Biediger told the SPE Gulf Coast Section R&D study group recently.
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The president of Chevron Technology Ventures discussed how startup companies can fill the gaps in a rapidly changing technological ecosystem, and Chevron's mechanisms to understand the role startups can play in its operations.
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Veros Systems took top honors at a competition involving energy startups.
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SPE and the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship have partnered to host a competition at ATCE in which emerging technology companies in the energy sector vie for partnerships and prize money.
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Emerging technologies from medical science and the aerospace industry could have a disruptive impact on oil and gas operations. A panel of scientists looked into these technologies and discussed their potential role in the industry.
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Rutter, Statoil Canada, and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador completed a collaborative research and development (R&D) project aimed at improving offshore oil and gas operations in harsh environments with ice conditions.
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Anadarko’s CEO and a company board member who heads a venture-backed software developer for artificial intelligence (AI) discuss the key role that AI will play in the oil and gas industry’s future.
