Risk management
This contributed article highlights the growing importance of fiber-optic sensing and its potential to advance thanks to emerging quantum technologies.
As drilling operations become increasingly digital, computer vision is emerging as a continuous safety layer that complements, not replaces, established safety practices. The challenge is no longer whether artificial intelligence can detect hazards, but how operators should deploy, integrate, and govern these systems to improve safety without adding operational comple…
This article from the SPE Integrated Reservoir Management Technical Section (IRMTS) addresses decisions that look stronger than they are and take longer to implement than the reservoir can afford.
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From credit markets to grid constraints, the forces shaping energy today go far beyond price. Inside the inaugural E3S symposium, industry leaders, policymakers, economists, and students explored how technology, financing, permitting, and supply chain resilience are redefining what it takes to power the energy future.
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Enverus projects 2026 activity aimed at gaining access to gas along the Gulf coast and disaggregation of assets.
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SPE President Jennifer Miskimins lent her expertise to Science Friday’s conversation about Venezuelan oil, explaining the reality of what it would take to extract and refine it.
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US oil executives say large-scale investment in Venezuela will depend on governance reforms and sustainable legal protections.
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A presidential decree extends ExxonMobil’s chance to possibly recoup part of the $4.6 billion loss it suffered after exiting its flagship Russian asset in spring 2022.
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The authors state that issues faced by the Gorgon carbon capture and storage project primarily relate to risk and pressure management of the produced water from the Dupuy formation rather than from capture, transport, injection, and storage technologies.
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Data and impartial viewpoints can help de-risk exploration portfolios and keep resource estimates in check.
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The US and UK sanctioned Russian independent Lukoil International and state-owned Rosneft in a bid to pressure Russia over Ukraine.
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The event on 14 January in Houston will bring together leading economists and industry leaders and will debut the North American edition of Energython, “Molecule to Megabyte,” a business case challenge for students focused on gas-to-data-center solutions.
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This paper discusses cases from the North Sea and offshore California in which high-fidelity pressure and dynamics measurements, combined with high-speed telemetry, helped overcome complex geotechnical challenges.