Unconventional/complex reservoirs
This work applies fuzzy logic, a well-established artificial-intelligence technique, to quantitatively assess connectivity between injectors and producers in a giant presalt field in the Santos Basin of Brazil.
Disposal wells remain the lowest-cost solution for produced water, but concerns over seismicity and long-term sustainability are accelerating interest in alternatives.
With a strong presence across US shale in the Bakken, Anadarko Basin, Powder River Basin, and the Permian, Continental Resources is expanding into Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale as the privately held E&P giant pursues international growth.
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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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A dissolvable collet field tested in an unconventional completion led to an average running time of 32 minutes per stage in a vertical section and 19 minutes per stage in the horizontal section.
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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.