R&D
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April 2022
Operators and service companies continue to implement new ESG initiatives. One provider is focusing more attention on operations at liquid mud plants to reduce, reuse and repurpose materials. The goal is to diminish the environmental footprint and promote operational efficiencies.
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April 29, 2022
The reimagined, field proven Simplified Frac Iron System transforms the typically disjointed process inherent with conventional ground iron.
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April 28, 2022
B3 Insight announced the launch of a complete produced water dataset that covers all of North Dakota including the extensive Bakken Shale Play.
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April 2022
Annual awards were handed out to 14 deserving technical advancements and innovations geared to the offshore upstream industry.
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April 2022
In a heat exchanger column, I discussed the use of certain nano-particles to increase the thermal conductivity of fluids used in heat exchangers. This month, I’d like to expound a bit more on a particular type of nano-fluids: Nano-Lubricants.
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April 21, 2022
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced its Equipment Health & Performance Optimization solution, which helps oil and gas operators reduce operational downtime by delivering real-time visibility to and insights on equipment health and monitoring.
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April 22, 2022
MCE Deepwater Development returned to its in-person conference in London this month. By all accounts, it exceeded its goal of bringing together technical experts from across the global industry.
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April 19, 2022
The long-recognized significant safety risks associated with the manual emergency release of mooring systems are minimized with PODx (Powered Offshore Disconnect), a new automatic actuation system from Gall Thomson.
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April 2022
To achieve more sustainable drilling, operators should drill fewer, more accurate wells. This becomes increasingly challenging, as operators encounter more complex reservoirs. A new 3D reservoir mapping service helps operators improve geosteering in such environments, reducing the need for more wells while optimizing production.
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April 2022
An integrated platform, incorporating data from multiple systems that are accessible to a real-time operations center and field personnel, produces a comprehensive model of a company’s ecosystem. The innovative combination results in safer, more reliable operations with less downtime.
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April 12, 2022
Halliburton Company today introduced StrataStar™, a deep azimuthal resistivity service that provides multilayer visualization to maximize well contact with the reservoir and improve real-time reserves evaluation.
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April 08, 2022
A hydrogen economy that runs factories and power plants on the clean-burning fuel may be years down the road, but that hasn’t stopped U.S. states from jockeying for a share of the $8 billion in federal funds earmarked for so-called hydrogen hubs.
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April 06, 2022
Searcher Seimic’s rigorous application of modern technology to 20-year-old data sets from oil fields offshore Nova Scotia, Canada, should reveal numerous additional drill-ready prospects.
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April 05, 2022
The floating offshore hydrogen production plant developed by J-DeEP combines a seawater desalination system and a system to extract hydrogen from water through electrolysis.
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April 04, 2022
Schlumberger will market and deliver the solutions in the energy, carbon capture and storage, and geothermal industries, with Sintela delivering the combined solutions to other industrial markets.
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March 31, 2022
Scientists at the University of Aberdeen are to embark on a £250,000 ($326,499) research project that aims to achieve a world first by using a plasma electrolyzer to convert carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons for energy use.
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March 31, 2022
Siemens Energy will locate the industrial production of electrolysis modules in Berlin, and is thus taking the centerpiece of its hydrogen technology to the capital.
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March 2022
With extreme weather events growing in frequency around the world, there are many ways that oil and gas operators can do more to protect their assets and mitigate some of the risks posed by natural hazards.
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March 2022
Mature fields are rife with producing wells that have commercial quantities of hydrocarbons behind pipe. Coiled tubing drilling provides a method to defer abandonment liability and access bypassed reserves with minimal capital expenditure.
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March 2022
Producers are benefitting from cloud-driven, automated data acquisition and reporting technology that optimizes control over their underground injection control operations while streamlining compliance with EPA requirements.
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March 2022
Under growing pressure from regulators, investors and customers, oil and gas operators urgently need to reduce their methane emissions. Mitigation is a big challenge, but intelligently combining current and emerging technologies offers a rapid, cost-effective route to success.
