Unconventional/complex reservoirs
This year’s selected papers showcase meaningful advances across condensate‑rich tight gas, tight sandstones, and coalbed methane reservoirs, each contributing new tools for improving predictability and field-development efficiency.
This paper presents a novel approach to predict reservoir porosity by conditioning seismic data, calibrating seismic impedance inversion, and tailoring rock-physics analysis.
This paper presents findings reinforcing the argument that acid fracturing is a strong alternative stimulation method to improve productivity in the Austin Chalk formation.
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CNPC’s record-breaking 11,100-m exploration borehole in the Taklamakan Desert promises to unlock the science of producing oil and gas trapped in the world’s deepest reservoirs. -
DJ Basin player enters the Permian Basin with a pair of asset purchases from private-equity vehicles.
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The US-based drilling contractor and well completions company will combine to form the second-biggest service company in North America.
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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.
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A Kimmeridge Energy executive said at the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference that he wants to "make unconventional resources investable in a low-carbon world."
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A slate of new pipeline projects are expected to help relieve the oil-rich region's associated gas bottleneck.
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The first long-haul overland conveyor system to deliver proppant is under construction in the Permian Basin.
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Enverus claims hundreds of millions of barrels of gas condensates are nowhere to be found in public data due to a major reporting gap.
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This paper describes the analysis of actual performance data for acid fracturing in a tight carbonate formation to investigate the ineffectiveness of the process.
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The authors of this paper describe an underbalanced coiled-tubing drilling campaign in the operator’s onshore fields using a closed-loop system design.
