Unconventional/complex reservoirs
A Chinese operator in the Sichuan Basin used high‑frequency pressure monitoring to evaluate frac performance in unconventional wells.
Acting director of the new center Ale Hakala outlines the research priorities guiding the newly established center’s focus on production enhancement technologies.
Operators aren’t rushing to drill, even as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz drives oil prices up.
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Devon Energy along with petroleum engineering consulting and software firm Whitson and cloud computing company Snowflake developed a system to monitor the dynamics of 5,000 wells. -
This paper presents the mitigation of drilling challenges encountered in the Niger Delta through a technique that relates shale resistivity to shale porosity and vertical effective stress to predict pore pressure.
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The authors integrated azimuths and intensities recorded by fiber optics and compared them with post-flowback production-allocation and interference testing to identify areas of conductive fractures and offset-well communication.
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The Research Council of Norway’s $118,000 grant will support development of longer fishbone laterals to raise production while lowering carbon footprints.
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Houston-based Chord is set to see its daily output increase to a basin-leading average of 287,000 BOE/D.
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Long the subject of rumored deals, Endeavor Energy is being snapped up at last in a deal valued at $26 billion.
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New studies examine whether two innovative well designs should have a bigger role to play in the race to get more value out of tight rock reservoirs.
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The company looks to focus its efforts on getting phase one of its Driftwood LNG up and running by shedding Haynesville acreage.
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The authors of this paper propose an artificial-intelligence-assisted work flow that uses machine-learning techniques to identify sweet spots in carbonate reservoirs.
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The authors of this paper describe a seismic reprocessing campaign for an Egyptian oil field that had yielded poor seismic data.
