It is corrosion resistant, has a long lifetime, no electronics are required downhole, and the “cable” is only a quarter of a millimeter thick. Fibre optic sensing technology has a…
A seal is a rock that has a higher capillary entry pressure relative to other adjacent rocks. The higher the contrast, the greater the hydrocarbon column it can hold. The…
Based on a post on social media, in which we asked our followers to name the well with the highest step-out ratio – the ratio between horizontal distance and vertical…
Speaking to an Aberdeen audience about 10 years ago, Jon Gluyas argued that the North Sea oil business was in essence a water industry. Looking at volumes of produced water…
Martin Essenfeld - EGEP Consultores SA and Rafael Sandrea - IPC Petroleum Consultants
P-wave velocity (Vp) is an essential parameter for constructing seismic velocity models for geophysical exploration data, and porosity is the single most important factor affecting it, along with the type of…
There is a buzz around artificial intelligence (AI). With routine tasks being increasingly taken over by machines, to the point that they are better trained than the human eye, when…
“Having worked in oil and gas for years, I was convinced I knew how to drill a well”, Rodney Garrard says. “Then I moved to Switzerland to join NAGRA, the…
We received quite a few comments on our short story about the commencement of tight gas production from the Ghawar field in Saudi Arabia. Thanks to that, there is an…
Plume dispersion is not solely a matter of distance from the mine site, physical processeses are also important”, said Thomas Peacock, professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at the…
Today’s energy industry faces the unprecedented challenge of balancing energy security, affordability and environmental sustainability. As hydrocarbons are expected to remain major components of global energy demand for the foreseeable…
“I have always wanted to have one foot in the field and one foot in the lab, to better solve practical problems in the oilfield”, says Guy Wheater on a…