Unconventional/complex reservoirs
Secondary and tertiary efforts are critical for sustaining the productive lives of unconventional plays.
Viper Energy is acquiring Sitio Royalties Corp. and its more than 25,000 net acres of royalty interests across major US shale plays.
Extensive acreage overlap and existing operational collaboration drove the acquisition decision.
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Strathcona doubles down on heavy oil—sells Montney assets for nearly CAD 3 billion, grabs Canada’s top crude-by-rail hub, and sets sights on MEG Energy in bold growth move. -
This article presents a comparative study evaluating four machine-learning approaches, including three deep-learning methods, for forecasting gas and condensate production over a 5-year horizon.
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US shale producers have stepped up their use of simultaneous fracturing techniques to cut costs and accelerate well delivery.
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Natural gas-powered electric fleets look to pave the way for the next generation of power generation.
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Field examples from the Bakken Shale and Permian Basin illustrate the benefits of deploying polymer-coated and uncoated scale inhibitors in unconventional wells.
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New strategies for protecting metal infrastructure emerge as operators fine-tune a corrosion threat screening process and develop a new method for tracking inhibitor effectiveness.
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This paper highlights nontraditional methods to cure oil-based-mud losses in horizontal wells drilled in unconventional plays.
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The company credited its theory of shale oil enrichment for the significant increase in the quantity of proven reserves at the field.
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This work investigates the root cause of strong oil/water emulsion and if sludge formation is occurring within the reservoir using a robust integrated approach.
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In this work, a perturbed-chain statistical associating fluid theory equation of state has been developed to characterize heavy-oil-associated systems containing polar components and nonpolar components with respect to phase behavior and physical properties.
