Nanotechnology is hot, and much has been written and said about its promised impact on the oil and gas industry (to name just one area). But nano is not the... more

Research organizations around the world look for double gains as they try to get rid of unwanted CO2 and raise energy security by increasing economic production from domestic oil and... more

While digital oilfield (DOF) possibilities are boundless, not every problem or challenge can be solved through new technology. In fact, getting new DOF technology in play is more an Figures... more

A few columns back I mentioned a research project that was consuming most of the time and energy of the E&P staff, a history of exploration and development in the... more

An acquaintance at a service company reports “there is increasing push from operators to address [operators’ cost escalation] and to explain why costs from service providers are high today, and... more

Topping off the fuel tank on a car these days represents a substantial attack on a person’s wallet. A car in the United States, faced with a 10-gallon refill, will... more

Traditional methods of sealing leaks, such as clamps and wraps, require direct access to the leak site so that divers or remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) can be used. Buried or... more

In the late 1980s, the oil and gas industry embarked on a journey that now, in retrospect, seems almost too simple: transition from paper processes to data-driven computer Landmark’s R5000... more

Residents of the humid and hurricane-prone US Gulf Coast region may not see water as anything but either a recreational resource or a nuisance. And writing a check for the... more

Reservoir Imaging Ltd (RIL), a 4-D seismic software services consultancy based in Edinburgh, Scotland, is pleased to announce the award of major contracts from Shell U.K. Ltd and BP for... more

CGGVeritas has opened its regional headquarters and data processing and imaging center in Singapore. The event was officiated by the Minister of State for Trade & Industry, Lee Yi Shyan. The... more

Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) announced today that it will perform an extensive multiclient electromagnetic (EM) scanning survey to search for commercial hydrocarbon deposits in the Krishna-Godavari basin, ahead of India's 7th... more

Ultera Systems Inc., a leading provider of high-performance virtual tape libraries, has achieved full certification from ARAM Systems Ltd. under which the Calgary-based company will support the Ultera Mirage Data... more

Earth Decision Sciences FZ-LLC, an affiliate of Paradigm, announced today that a major agreement has been reached with Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) for the purchase of Paradigm Geolog petrophysical analysis... more

Acceleware Corp., a leading developer of high-performance computing (HPC) applications, today announced the launch of its seismic data acceleration solution that provides a multi-fold performance increase to reduce lengthy processing... more

EMGS announced today that it has begun an extensive and diverse program of electromagnetic (EM) imaging surveys over the Troll field, which is situated in a shallowwater region of the... more

The oil and gas landscape continues to change. Demand is migrating to the East, supply is becoming concentrated in the hands of the few, new technology is a near prerequisite... more

Exploration and production companies operating on the shelf of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) face the challenging task of managing fields as they approach their final decommissioning phase. This difficult... more

In the summer of 1921, a small team of physicists and geologists (William P. Haseman, J. Clarence Karcher, Irving Perrine and Daniel W. Ohern) performed an historical experiment Figure 1.... more

At some companies, exploration programs and production-building seem to flow as smoothly as oil in a clean pipeline. At others, life seems to be more like a bumper-car ride at... more

A few aggressive exploration companies see huge opportunity in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan area of northern Iraq, and they back that insight with strong wells and large potential fields. “On 6 September... more

Here is a question for you. If you leave a wakeup call and at the appointed hour receive said call in this form — “He he he, this is Goofy,... more

Snøhvit represented a gutsy call by Statoil (now StatoilHydro) as it opened production in the Barents Sea with a worldclass project aimed not only at profits but at environmental correctness... more

Developing a 14.1-Tcf gas field is tough under the best circumstances, but an operator compounds the difficulty by achieving the feat in sub-Arctic waters with subsea wells and production moving... more

BP tied five large fields together into a single large project off the Angolan coast, and it plans to add more fields to the mix as the company’s first producing... more

The Independence project pioneered the deepest-water production in the world as a handful of operators brought together a handful of fields and a large service company to set a record... more

New fields continue to blossom onshore and offshore West Africa as operators deal with moving regulatory targets and tough new environmental conditions on new and existing fields. Nigeria, once the hot... more

With its turbulent times behind it Angola opened tracts with high oil and gas potential from onshore blocks suited to independents to ultra-deepwater blocks better suited to majors or large... more