Reservoir

As the demand for energy continues to increase, so does the sociopolitical demand that these resources be produced in a sustainable way. This reflective thought has defined this month’s selection of technical papers, each speaking to a different facet of this feature’s theme: unconventional reservoir development for a sustainable energy transition.

This paper describes natural fractures and their effect on hydrocarbon productivity in the Vaca Muerta shale formation.

The authors of this paper describe a solution using machine-learning techniques to predict sandstone distribution and, to some extent, automate the process of optimizing well placement.

This study catalogs global gas/oil ratio data to identify currently produced light crude oils that could be rendered carbon neutral through the direct-air-capture mechanism.

A new program offers an affordable way to figure out if salt precipitation could be behind underperforming gas wells and suggests a path to higher production.

DJ Basin player enters the Permian Basin with a pair of asset purchases from private-equity vehicles.

The US-based drilling contractor and well completions company will combine to form the second-biggest service company in North America.

A concurrent deal to sell off some of the acquired assets to Northern Oil and Gas will effectively lower the acquisition cost to $1 billion.

A Kimmeridge Energy executive said at the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference that he wants to "make unconventional resources investable in a low-carbon world."

A slate of new pipeline projects are expected to help relieve the oil-rich region's associated gas bottleneck.