Completions
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July 2019
Elected officials are doing their best to kill off the golden goose in two states that have benefitted mightily from the shale revolution.
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July 2019
Use of electromagnetic monitoring to image unconventional wells in shales can identify problems with well isolation and frac design.
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June 2019
Recognized by professionals in the upstream industry’s offshore sector as Europe’s leading E&P event, the SPE Offshore Europe (OE) Conference & Exhibition is gearing up for another year in Aberdeen, Scotland.
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June 2019
The SPE Offshore Europe 2019 conference and exhibition is fast approaching.
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June 2019
Sparrows Group has won contract renewals worth an estimated £30 million on the UKCS.
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June 2019
Between rocks and hard places
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June 2019
Several variables should be considered before selecting solids control equipment and waste management techniques for achieving the lowest total cost.
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May 2019
Wireless intelligent completion technology has the potential to change the way that reservoirs are managed, linking highly segmented and complex wellbore systems to the digital oil field.
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May 2019
Numerous completion technology advances have emerged to improve stimulation efficiency and lower break-even costs, but the optimal solution depends on the development.
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April 2019
Adjusting completion plans in extended-reach laterals can reduce risk, lower costs, and expedite bringing wells online.
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April 2019
They may have arrived late to the shale soiree, but the super-majors have shown up with overflowing wallets, lofty production targets, and they’re setting the tone for the next wave of development in the transcendent Permian basin.
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April 2019
This year’s collection of new technologies and products carries on the spirit of last year’s advances, and perhaps even more aggressively, in terms of wringing out further efficiencies and cost reductions.
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April 2019
As the offshore sector of the global E&P industry shows signs of finally turning the corner, the strong pace of technical innovation is continuing.
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March 2019
Fracture mapping enables operators to determine the effectiveness of different diversion techniques to control fracture growth and minimize inter-well communications.
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March 2019
Profitable production in shale reservoirs is achieved by optimization of capital expenditure and operational strategy improvements from the development of shale reservoir characterization technology.
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March 2019
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.
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March 2019
Everything changes
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March 2019
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.
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February 2019
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
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February 2019
The Great Water Hope: The future of oilfield produced water
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January 2019
There are numerous approaches to treating and recycling water in the oil field, with no single approach always being the right answer.
