Technical Topics

Mitigation of stress shadowing could significantly enhance the impact of hydraulic fracturing treatments, increasing stimulated reservoir volume and leading to higher production of hydrocarbons.

Unconventional oil and gas have come to dominate the exploration and development scene in Western Canada since 2005, much as they have in the US. As usually happens with new play ideas and trends, appraisal and development have generated a broad spectrum of results in Canadian Unconventional plays.

There is a big prize to be claimed in enhanced shale and tight oil recovery.

The data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence fields do have a great deal of overlap, but they are not interchangeable.

As a compact source of energy which is widely distributed, natural gas hydrates can play a big role in meeting future energy demands. But producing them is not such an easy task.

The author shares the story of how when he wanted a quick, handy tool to have in his pocket to QC the reservoir engineering numbers, he ended up creating an app that others could use too.

Texas A&M University wins this year's Drillbotics contest.

Data-driven reservoir modeling is an alternative or a complement to numerical simulation and uses machine learning and data mining to develop full-field reservoir models.

More than a decade ago, perforation cluster spacing was designed up to 700 ft in Barnett and Bakken plays. Today, the spacing is as close as 15 ft apart in Eagle Ford and DJ Basin and operators are optimizing fracture spacing for achieving higher initial production rates.

The Energy East Pipeline involves the conversion of an existing TransCanada gas pipeline to oil service, as well as the construction of 1500 km of new pipeline. With a capacity of 1.1 million B/D, it will eliminate the need to import foreign crude oil to refineries in Quebec and New Brunswick.