Technology
As video game technology has evolved, so have the ways in which this technology can be used in the oil and gas industry.
Five key themes to AI's success including standardization, automation, integration, scalability, and continuous improvement can provide a clear roadmap for effective AI deployment, addressing challenges and driving sustainability across the subsurface energy sector.
TWA editor in chief and University of Oklahoma alumnus Aman Srivastava interviews the professors and students in the university's petroleum engineering department about the cutting-edge research YPs are participating in.
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A brief primer on managed pressure drilling (MPD) and how it compares with underbalanced drilling (UBD). -
Consultant Ali Daneshy presents an overview of hydraulic fracturing technology.
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Christine A. Ehlig-Economides discusses what a career in pressure-transient testing is like.
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The petroleum industry constantly faces challenging flow-assurance problems as it pursues assets in more difficult producing environments. This alone guarantees an exciting future for all engineers with an interest in multiphase flow in pipes.
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Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is a prime example of how structured research and development (R&D) has led to the commercial implementation of technology, helping unlock hydrocarbon resources to fulfill society’s energy demands.
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The development of wireline-tractor technology has greatly improved the way operators can intervene in high-angle and horizontal oil and gas wells
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Abbas Firoozabadi of the Reservoir Engineering Research Institute and Yale University and Hussein Hoteit of ConocoPhillips engage in an interesting review of traditional (“old school”) numerical-simulation approaches and explain the need to change (to “new school”) reservoir-simulation approaches.
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Paul Tooms talks about his career, subsea technology, and how the industry develops its people.
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Brian J. Glass and Carol Stoker of the NASA Ames Research Center describe the potential for drilling on other planets.
