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The US Department of Energy and Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection will convert a horizontal Utica Shale gas well into an enhanced geothermal system. Building directly on horizontal drilling and completion practices developed in the Utica, the project will include evaluation of optimal well orientation, lateral placement, and spacing.
An asset swap with PDVSA helps consolidate the supermajor’s heavy-oil operations in the country.
Co-owner Chevron confirmed the find at the Bandit prospect offshore Louisiana and suggested it may become a subsea tieback to existing faciltiies operated by Occidental Petroleum.
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Upon closing, the newly combined oil company will boast 135,000 BOE/D and hold around 15 years’ worth of drilling locations in the Permian Basin. -
Oil companies would have to pay a premium for the hardware and services needed for rapid expansion. But is that likely?
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As the announcement of carbon sequestration projects becomes the norm, it’s time we look at what we know from a technical angle about how these projects need to be run based on the industry’s experience with enhanced oil recovery.
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The two companies have teamed up in an attempt to cut downhole costs with a project that aims to extract more information from reduced data-acquisition programs.
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Producers in the biggest US oil basin have signaled that they intend to seize on $100/bbl oil prices.
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This paper summarizes the integrated technical learnings from the successful application of the installation of autonomous outflow control technology in a new long horizontal injector well.
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This study describes application of the iterative ensemble Kalman smoother application to a low-permeability coalbed methane field in Australia.
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This paper will cover the most-common types of horizontal multistage fracturing completion systems, with a primary focus on unconventionals.
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Heavy oils are characterized by high density, high viscosity, and high-heavy-fraction components. Because of high viscosity and lower API gravity than conventional crude oil, primary recovery of some of these crude oil types requires thermal stimulation of the reservoirs.
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New research from Hess offers compelling evidence that two layers of tight rock can be treated as one and how passive wells can become oil producers.
