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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Baker Hughes is joining the ranks of other manufacturers using spare 3D printers to make plastic face shields and other gear to protect healthcare workers from the deadly coronavirus. -
Learn the components of a coiled tubing drilling operation and how they all fit together.
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Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee achieved a rare look at the inner workings of polymer self-assembly at an oil-water interface.
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A discussion on the different types interference effects during hydraulic fracturing, focusing on cluster design and well spacing.
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Sometimes problems turn out to be an opportunity to try something new. In this case, the result was a well design unlike anything most in the shale sector have seen before.
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Production data from the oldest horizontal wells in the three largest oil plays in the US show that annual decline rates remain relatively high for a long period of time. This challenges assumptions held about production after 5 years and directly affects reserve and ultimate recovery estimates.
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Extreme downhole conditions may lead to rapid degradation of pumped cement. The understanding of degradation of cement under such conditions is imperative to bring about improvements in the cement formulation.
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OMV’s ReOil technology uses thermal cracking to transform plastic waste into gas and synthetic crude oil. The technology is expected to reach industrial scale by 2025.
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The video shows some of the issues encountered while building the Appomattox and how the team drew on the knowledge of those outside of the oil and gas industry to overcome them.
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Fiber-optic technologies—distributed temperature sensing and distributed acoustic sensing—have been experiencing an ever-increasing number of applications in the oil and gas industry as monitoring systems.
