Geared to young and seasoned professionals alike, “Beyond back-to-basics: Process principles and concepts” is a new series of articles designed to present a straightforward approach to mastering the principles and concepts all process engineers should be able to apply without the need of a computer. In this fifth installment, industry veteran Norm Lieberman explains how […]

Even with offshore field development having slowed in the wake of the 2014 oil price collapse, a variety of subsea pipeline projects remain in development. Each meets the producers’ need to rationalize the paths by which their hydrocarbons get to market, some of the larger projects taking land-based production to land-based consumers even as growth […]

Stratigraphic traps made headlines in 2017 with the discovery of an estimated 1 billion boe of recoverable resources in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana within the Payara, Snoek, and Turbot discoveries. Despite this play types’ large resource potential, the industry still perceives stratigraphic traps as having higher geological risk. With remaining accumulations more likely to […]

With active exploration taking place offshore South Africa later in 2018, the new administration’s commitment to finalizing its oil and gas law could encourage more foreign investment. Source: News

Researchers lowered the water cut and increased production while trialing a continuous pack-off inflow control device (CP+ICD) in an offshore horizontal well in 300 m of water in Liuhua oil field, eastern South China Sea. Source: News

They’ll call it an assault on environmental protection. Pressure groups and their friends in politics and the media will complain that the Environmental Protection Agency has advanced its unholy campaign against regulation yet again. Source: News

Researchers run numerical simulations and field tests using cyclic steam stimulation, steam drive, and steam-assisted gravity drainage at different types of heavy oil reservoirs in China’s Bohai field offshore to find the best production strategies based on reservoir characteristics. Source: News

Industry has expanded the definition of improved oil recovery (IOR) and advanced its application to economically produce more of the world’s oil that already has been discovered. Source: News

Researchers ran a series of core flooding experiments in a Western Desert field in Egypt to study how different alumina nanofluid concentrations affect brine displacement, relative permeability curves, rock wettability, and ultimate estimated recovery. Source: News

Valeura’s Yamalik-1 discovery well is opening a basin-centered gas play in western Turkey’s Thrace basin. Source: News