Technical Topics

Effective management of produced water in mature oil fields is essential to reducing environmental risks and operational costs, with subsurface disposal emerging as the most efficient and responsible method.

This article examines the safety of geological carbon storage by addressing common concerns, presenting evidence-based assessments, and exploring the actual measures in place to ensure its secure and responsible deployment. 

Mineralogical, mechanical, and flow complexities in major US shale plays are tightly linked, making traditional 1D modeling inadequate. Emmanuel Obasi, SPE, addresses this with a physics-informed ML approach detailed in this article.

The university's 142-ft multiphase flow loop tower is a 10-story engineering marvel pushing the boundaries of petroleum research in production operations, flow assurance, and safe offshore drilling.

Presented by the SPE German Section, the webinar will focus on how commercial extraction will require innovative approaches due to the depth and low permeability of key formations in the basin.

The upcoming webinar will explore how oil and gas technologies are being repurposed for geothermal and renewable energy applications.

Part 1 of this 2-part series delves into an overview of hydraulic fracturing operations and on-site activities of a fracturing engineer.

Explore how the industry is measuring and reporting carbon intensity, the strategies being employed to reduce it, from operational efficiencies and electrification to cutting flaring, and the collaborative initiatives driving progress.

With water management poised to be the defining challenge of the next decade for the Permian Basin, companies that fail to adapt may find their production growth throttled not by a lack of oil, but by an excess of water.

The data include high-resolution spatial layers for environmental research, monitoring, and geospatial analysis.