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In Too Deep? GoM Operators Weigh Sky-high Day Rates
Offshore may be on the rebound, but Gulf of Mexico rigs are hard to find.
Opinion: Old Assets, New Tricks—The Challenge and Promise of Brownfield Assets
Offshore brownfield projects will be some of the most important energy engineering projects of the decade.
Decarbonizing with Carbon Nanotubes: The Key to Reaching Net Zero
Upstream oil and gas producers can decarbonize their operations at a potentially lower price by partnering with SkyNano and using the emissions to produce carbon nanotubes.
Rapid Responses to Production Challenges
To help solve onset difficulties at the well site or facility, new surface well testing equipment can assist oil and gas producers in increasing efficiency and saving time and money.
Inspection System Solves Communication Issues and Provides Effective Remote User Experience
A new inspection technology enables remote workers to transmit high-definition video, synchronized data and high-quality audio from any site to another via a secure local area network using military-grade encryption, even when connectivity is low or unreliable.
Completions Lessons Learned: Innovations from Recent Years
Liberty Oilfield Services and Tendeka's latest technologies and services help bring down the costs of drilling and completions.
The Role of Cementing Technologies in Casing and Running Tool Pressure Testing Operations
DeltaTek's SeaCure technology provides stabbed-in inner string cement for casings and liners that will save operators time and money in field development operations.
E&P Tech Spotlight: Enabling Efficiency, Safety Through Digitized Completions
Through digital completions technology, oil and gas producers can increase safety and efficiency at the well site by converting on-paper procedures to a digital forum. “It’s sort of like using Goggle Maps or Waze to drive to a destination,” says Intelligent Wellhead Systems CEO William Standifird.
Maximizing Production: System Alerts of Impending Fracs into the Workflow
Kayrros developed an alert system to notify operators of neighboring well frac activity, monitoring operations daily across tight oil and gas basins, to allow operators to protect their assets.
Multilateral Technology Advancements Key to Continued Troll Field Success
After its first installation 25 years ago, multilateral wells have seen technological advancements in the North Sea that lessen environmental impact and increase productivity.
Halliburton Labs and Exxon Mobil SMEs Discuss the Future of Energy
Former honorees of Hart Energy’s Influential Women in Energy recognition program discuss technology, ESG and the future of the industry.
Quick Take: Potential Sale of Exxon Mobil’s Bakken Assets
Exxon Mobil continues to pursue opportunities to divest, and the oil and gas supermajor’s Bakken assets could be worth $5 billion.
E&P Tech Spotlight: Getting Clear Visuals for Well Reservoirs
Schlumberger’s reservoir mapping-while-drilling services can be used to give operators clearer visuals into their wells and the challenges that befall them.
Subsurface CO2 Storage: Building on Success
Projeo’s projects and initiatives demonstrate CCS technology at real-world, commercial-scale facilities for ammonia production, ethanol production and coal-fired power generation.
Rising to the Challenge of Flow Assessment in Horizontal Wells
A new flow-diagnostics resource delivers continuous flow profiles across a variety of completion and reservoir scenarios, including fractured formations.
Defining Decarbonization in the Oil and Gas Sector
While oil and gas operators must have clearly defined terms in the rules for regulating their emissions, public outlook must shift to understand that an energy mix is the most realistic option in the energy transition, says Baker Hughes’ Allyson Anderson Book.
Driving Innovation Through Collaboration and Technology in Oil and Gas
The energy transition is a main driver of innovation in the oil and gas industry, according to panelists at CERAWeek.
Predictive Analysis Improves Environmental Impact, Optimizes Frac Performance
A new frac fluid optimization process uses an extensive database coupled with a simple but effective method of selecting appropriate friction reducers (FRs), thus equipping an operator with the proper pre-job analysis to choose the FR that best fits its cost structure and ESG initiatives.
Use of Historical Data to Drive Present Drilling Rig Performance
Data intelligence is key to supporting energy transition goals. A reporting and intelligence sharing rig inspection tool is just one example of how smart data can be utilized to enhance inspections and understand trends, so issues can be effectively predicted before they occur.
Minimizing Equipment Downtime with In-situ Seal Welding Technology
A seal welding technology has resulted in no requirement for an FPSO to return to port, and repairs can be carried out offshore to allow continued production and minimize costly equipment downtime.
Unleash Reservoir Performance Without Drilling New Wells
Tools that provide operators with solutions to impact production on their existing assets immediately.
Tying Together Rig Automation Processes
Digital well plans and high-definition data can help operators make sense of the advanced technology on rig sites.
Evaluating Well Performance in Real Time with Automated Rate Transient Analysis
Visualization software speeds up the time-demanding process of monitoring and analyzing well data throughout each day.
Opinion: A Subsea System Approach to Project Design
By embracing a system approach, it can provide a degree of consistency, certainty and cost control—all valuable commodities at a time of rapid change as we march on to new horizons.
How Nodal Technology Enabled New African Opportunities to be Explored
Nodal technology offers substantially reduced environmental footprint, reduced HSE risk, faster surveys and significant operational and logistical efficiencies before, during and after acquisition.
Momentum Picks up for Wellsite Emissions Monitoring
Experts with Project Canary and MiQ share insights and strategies on emissions monitoring technology, certification and leak prevention.
Methane Management: Creating a Plan of Action
Service providers are contributing to methane emissions management by advising operators with systematic action plans to achieve their reduction targets.
Putting Trust and Sense into Data for More Sustainable Energy Operations
Odfjell Drilling improved rig operations, developed a new business model and easily shared rig data with its clients using 4Subsea's Internet of Things sensors in conjunction with its data analytics platform to digitally enhance its global rig operations.
Petrobras Driving Digital Innovation for Offshore Technology
In this digitalization transformation era, Petrobras’ "innovation machine" aids in assembling a team to create new technologies, strong business strategies and increasing efficiencies.
Data-driven Workflow Makes Better Use of Historical Data to Improve Return on Capital
Returns must improve for the oil and gas industry to remain a viable target for capital investment.