Current Issue: November 2020 ///
Special Report: Analysis of Brazil’s O&G Sector
Ricardo Giamattey, Bruce Crager, Endeavor Management
Part 2: In this second and final installment, the authors examine a potential rebuilding of onshore production, the likely need for some offshore decommissioning, and the status of the country’s alternative fuels.
Special Focus
Terry Moffat, Curtis Jabusch, Sirius Controls Inc.
Modern sealing technologies can reduce maintenance on chemical injection pumps. A case study of over 10,000 pumps shows that new, technically advanced seals outperform traditional packing seals by an order of magnitude.
Duncan Micklem, Yokogawa
An extremely challenging economic environment is driving digital transformation across the oil and gas industries—but it doesn’t need to happen all at once. Companies can realize major top-line and bottom-line improvements, by thinking big but starting small and scaling up, using digital twins.
Manoj Nimbalkar, Weatherford
Operators cash-in near-perfect asset efficiency and long-term value
Features
Kjell Eriksson, DNV GL
Operators require proof that digital twins can be trusted and will deliver value over time. Two companies have partnered to develop a methodology for qualifying the quality and integrity of the technology.
Raffaello Zambetti, Simone Malesani, Paolo Novelli, Tenaris; Luca Paolo Bianchini, Fabio Parrozza, Valentina Gibilterra, Loredana Orlando, Ivan Codognotto, Eni
The limited knowledge of impact of salt-induced loads on structural integrity often leads to overly conservative well design. To gain insight into these phenomena, engineers conducted a series of full-scale tests to fully understand collapse resistance.
Jim Nyquist, Emerson
The industry must adapt to address new and unforeseen challenges in market demand, staffing and worker health and safety. Digital transformation is a requirement to keep businesses alive while ensuring the most efficient and sustainable use of resources.
Mike Slaton, Contributing Editor
In the Arctic Circle, oil and gas interests are often a study of polar opposites. To some it looks like riches; for others, potential ruin.
Rob Hull, Halliburton
The time has come for a coordinated industry strategy to address the problem of orphan wells.
Gary Traylor, Myrtle Consulting Group
Oil and gas organizations are looking increasingly to embrace technology and improve processes to move further down the path toward transformation in a post-Covid world. To accomplish these objectives will require structure, pragmatism and agility while navigating the road ahead.
Jared Ciferno, NETL
The U.S. DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is funding four projects for cost-shared R&D in produced water treatment.
Columns
Jim Redden, Contributing Editor
The blunt truth
William (Bill) Head, Contributing Editor
To drill or not to drill, that is the question!
Craig Fleming, World Oil
An American patriot
Liv A. Hovem, DNV GL
A carbon conundrum for oil and gas
Mark Patton, Hydrozonix
Where do we go from here?
Kurt Abraham, World Oil
No final decision…yet
Resources