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On the opening day of the joint SPE/ICoTA Well Intervention Conference, operators discussed innovations, new solutions, and case histories in four technical sessions at the meeting held in The Woodlands, Texas.
Weatherford International plc has brought to market the world's first remote-activated, single-trip deepwater completion system.
Jeff Kopp, Charles Kahn, Erica Coenen, Reveal Energy Services; Charles Allen, Jake Hutchton, Clark Robinson, Chaparral Energy
Fracture mapping enables operators to determine the effectiveness of different diversion techniques to control fracture growth and minimize inter-well communications.
Camilo Mejia, Natasa Mekic, Weatherford
Profitable production in shale reservoirs is achieved by optimization of capital expenditure and operational strategy improvements from the development of shale reservoir characterization technology.
Don LeBlanc, Eastex Petroleum Consultants
Artificial neural networks are information processing systems constructed to mimic procedures that resemble those of the human brain. They have the ability to learn procedures from training patterns or data. These systems excel at pattern matching, classification, data clustering and forecasting.
Mark Patton, Hydrozonix
Everything changes
Michele Cowart, World Oil
Equinor has, together with its partners Petoro, ExxonMobil and Total, proven gas and condensate in the Norwegian Sea Ragnfrid North (6406/2-9 S) exploration well, located ~12.43 mi (20 km) south of the Kristin platform in the Norwegian Sea.
Jumbo has been awarded an offshore decommissioning project in the North Sea by TAQA Energy BV, involving the removal, transportation and disposal of three subsea protection domes and piles.
At a fraction of the cost of conventional tools, Coretrax, the wellbore clean-up and abandonment specialist, is increasing its stock of CX-Enviroplugs to meet demand for a safe, simple and significantly cost-effective solution for big bore cement plug placement.
Vallourec is now offering online sales of tubular solutions with its new e-commerce platform: Smartengo.
Fluor Corporation has announced that it was awarded the engineering, procurement and construction of the Halliburton Specialty Chemicals Manufacturing Reaction Plant located in the PlasChem Park, Jubail, Saudi Arabia. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract value in the fourth quarter of 2018.
Recovery of vegetation on plugged and abandoned oil and gas well sites on the Colorado Plateau is influenced by time, moisture, nonnative plants and the type of plant community that was originally in place before well sites were constructed, according to a recently published study by the U.S. Geological Survey.
Kurt Abraham, World Oil
In an exclusive interview with World Oil Editor-in-Chief Kurt Abraham, ConocoPhillips Chief Technology Officer Greg Leveille discusses the technical issues facing global E&P, particularly as relates to the many U.S. unconventional plays
John Tintera, Texas Alliance of Energy Producers
The Great Water Hope: The future of oilfield produced water
On the second day of SPE’s hydraulic fracturing conference, held on Wednesday, in the Woodlands, Texas, the technical presentations kicked into high-gear, with four major categories being explored by SME’s from operating companies, service providers and academia.
Subsea project delivery firms James Fisher Offshore (JFO) and First Subsea have joined forces to launch a cut and lift product that aims to streamline decommissioning projects worldwide, simplifying operations while reducing costs and risk.
GEODynamics, Inc. introduces the new patented HELLFire perforating system, a revolutionary solution that allows the oil and gas industry to more effectively complete multi-stage plug-and-perf operations.
C-Kore Systems are pleased to announce a new subsea testing tool, the C-Kore Sensor Monitor.
Halliburton forecast a drop in fracing earnings in the first quarter as the OFS announced a cut in capital expenditure to match a more disciplined approach from customers.
Aberdeen-based oil and gas production technology business, Pragma Well Technology, has been given the green light by Pharis Energy and OGTC to progress with the manufacture and prototype testing of their Downhole Steam Injection Valve (DSIV) following a successful feasibility study.