February 2020 ///
Special Focus
Craig Fleming, Kurt Abraham, World Oil
U.S. on a downward trajectory as shale industry matures
Staff, World Oil
Improved offshore activity, coupled with significant conventional oil development programs operated by NOCs, should push drilling marginally higher in 2020.
Dr. Roger Bezdek, Contributing Editor
While attention is focused on the national elections, there are ominous policies gestating at the state and local government levels.
Robert Curran, Contributing Editor
Canada re-adjusts to low prices, limited access
Staff, World Oil
U.S. crude output surges,
overproduction wallops gas prices
Staff, World Oil
U.S. reserves reach new record-high
Staff, World Oil
Spending discipline slows drilling activity in shale plays
James West, Evercore ISI
Global capex to grow moderately,
but less than last year
Columns
Craig Fleming, World Oil
Sustainability: Are we moving too fast?
Jacques Sapir, Contributing Editor
Oil, government change and a Chinese virus…
Jim Redden, Contributing Editor
The silly season
Leslie Shockley Beyer, Petroleum Equipment & Services Association
OFS technology: The driver of energy transition
John Clegg, Weatherford
In an era of low oil prices, how do we break even?
Don Francis, Contributing Editor
Optimizing perforation cluster efficiency
William (Bill) Head, Contributing Editor
2020—Had enough yet?
Kurt Abraham, World Oil
A mixed outlook seen for global upstream industry
Features
Brad Ivie, NOV
As wellbores and drilling operations have become more complex, drill bit development must keep pace to meet increasingly difficult performance requirements.
Adrián Ledroz, Chris Hartley, Stephen Forrester, Gyrodata
In today’s environment, the need to expedite wellbore construction has been supplanted by the requirement to drill boreholes more intelligently. A real-time wellbore guidance technology offers operators and service companies a means of improving precision and accuracy in wellbore placement.
Jim Redden, Contributing Editor
Capital discipline reining in rigs, production
Roy Shilling, Chuck White, Vamsee Achanta, Paul Hyatt, Howard Day, Frontier Deepwater Appraisal Solutions LLC
To solve complex issues related to developing deepwater reserves in the GOM, a common-sense approach utilizing appropriate technology enables operators to profitably capture critical dynamic reservoir data and increase ultimate recovery.
Mike Slaton, Contributing Editor
Short-term gains; long-term questions
Nancy Luedke, Texas A&M University
Researchers at Texas A&M University have found that the presence of a fossilized organic substance called kerogen plays a vital role in how easily carbon dioxide can travel through shale reservoirs.
News & Resources
Emily Querubin, World Oil
Emily Querubin, World Oil