Risk management
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.
The SPE Asset Management Technical Section (AMTS) is teaming up with the University of Houston to launch a pilot program that advances asset management practices and supports the growth of energy professionals worldwide—setting a model for future collaborations between universities and SPE technical sections.
The SPE Management Technical Section has been officially renamed the Asset Management Technical Section. The new name better reflects the section’s focus on asset management as a core discipline in the upstream oil and gas industry.
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Europe is providing a stark look at the vagaries of geo- and energy politics and how quickly complacency can be shattered. Will its lessons learned be heeded by the rest of the world?
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This paper explains how machine learning and physiology can be used to improve rig technical training by monitoring the operator’s stress, leading to targeted training to manage such situations better.
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Although energy efficiency has long been mentioned as a means toward achieving Paris Agreement goals, the “more exciting” announcements about carbon capture and storage grabbed attention. Will concerns about energy security and high prices help bring it to the forefront?
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By turning its back on Russian oil and gas, will Europe speed up or slow down its energy transition, and what will be the impact on global climate change?
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The EU has voted to immediately ban Russian oil imports supplied by tanker, a two-thirds cut in deliveries, while member states aim for a 90% import shutdown by yearend when Germany and Poland have pledged to phase out their Russian pipeline supplies.
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The exit comes after Equinor's presence of more than 30 years with the transfer of its interests in joint ventures to Rosneft and its stake in the Kharyaga PSA to operator Zarubezhneftegaz.
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Tanker transit statistics via the Suez Canal broke historic records in April as Europe sought to import more crude oil and LNG from the Arab Gulf to replace traditional supplies from Russia.
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A new gas-gathering rule that has been issued by the US Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration will soon expand oversight to all onshore gas-gathering pipelines, including about 425,000 miles of lines that had not previously been documented in annual reporting.
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Sempra Infrastructure and Poland’s state-owned PGNiG oil and gas company have signed a deal that is expected to result in the export of 3 mtpa of LNG to Poland from Louisiana and Texas.
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What effect is ESG having on companies involved in the chemical supply chain, and how will they look going forward?