R&D/innovation
Discover how engineer Tim Ong, SPE, built a successful career in energy by leveraging transferable skills, embracing mentorship, and navigating a nonlinear path from medical instrumentation to innovation, digital transformation, and leadership.
2026 TWA Energy Influencer Muhammad Karimi shares how he transformed academic research into a globally deployed energy technology, offering insights on innovation, entrepreneurship, oilfield digitalization, and the energy transition.
Texas A&M Researchers To Develop AI-Powered Drilling System To Accelerate Critical Mineral Discovery
Backed by a $3.5 million US Department of Energy grant, Texas A&M researchers are developing an AI-enabled drilling system that can identify critical minerals in real time, reducing exploration time and costs for rare earth element deposits.
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Tiger Skid, a custom-built cyber-physical training and testing platform, simulates real-world energy systems and industrial processes vulnerable to cyber-physical attacks. -
As the energy sector rapidly evolves to address climate change, tools such as the En-ROADS Climate Solutions Simulator are essential for young professionals seeking to understand the complexities of the transition and make informed, impactful decisions.
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A study employed a rigorous mathematical model to estimate the quantity of recoverable geothermal heat in Nigeria’s subsurface formations.
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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.
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Students at the Melbourne, Australia, university took home first place at the 32nd US-based Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition.
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A University of Tulsa PhD student Gulnur Ualiyea is advancing CO2 well injection technology through groundbreaking research on downward gas-liquid flow. Her innovative work is gaining global recognition and reshaping the future of sustainable energy.
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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.
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Innovation occurs by thinking differently and creatively. What makes innovation commercial is its desirability to users, its viability in the marketplace, its economic soundness, and its basis in workable technology.
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Materials smaller than the width of a human hair are contributing to improved hydraulic fracturing and other areas of oil and gas technology.
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Three women working in R&D offer perspectives on their work, why they joined that branch of the industry, what projects they work on, and what keeps them challenged.
