JPT Vol 73, No 1-January 2021

January 2021 | Volume 73, Number 1

Needles in the Pay Stack: ADNOC Exploring Tight-Oil Rock, Triples Production In First Pilot

With only around 30 installations worldwide, ADNOC’s onshore team has seen enough results from its first “fishbone” stimulation to embark on a 10-well program that will decide a full development scheme.

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FEATURED

01 January 2021

Artificial Intelligence in the E&P Industry: What Have We Learned So Far and Where to Next?

In the spectrum of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, those adopted to date in the oil and gas industry are task-focused, narrow applications. Taking AI to the next level cannot be done by Silicon Valley alone.

01 January 2021

Teasing Meaning Out of a Tangle of Fracturing Data

An investigation of casing damage led Chesapeake Energy and Well Data Labs to identify patterns in the treating pressure data that are useful markers when trouble is likely.

01 January 2021

Against the Grain: Three Proppant Delivery Approaches That Buck the Status Quo

A trio of field studies recently presented at the 2020 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition highlights in different ways how emerging technology and old-fashioned problem solving are moving the industry needle on proppant and conductivity control.

01 January 2021

Geothermal Well Construction: A Step Change in Oil and Gas Technologies

The cutting-edge technological developments in geothermal are devoted to drilling into deeper, hotter, and harder rock. Oil and gas expertise and know-how holds the key to cost reduction.

01 January 2021

How Real-Time Evaluation of Slugging Severity Can Help Maximize Production

Innovative elements of digitalization and automation of workflows provide a new approach for better handling of slugging in subsea developments with long tiebacks, potentially optimizing production and limiting the amount of flaring.

01 January 2021

Flow-Induced Vibration Analysis of Topside Piping at High Pressure

A combination of computational-fluid-dynamics and finite-element modeling offers a potentially powerful tool for assessing and diagnosing multiphase-flow-induced vibration problems in hydrocarbon-production piping systems.

E&P NOTES

01 January 2021

GOM Lease Sale Generates $121 Million in High Bids; Shell Offshore Takes Top Spot

Regionwide US Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Lease Sale 256 generated $120,868,274 in high bids for 93 tracts in federal waters. The sale on 18 November featured 14,862 unleased blocks covering 121,875 square miles.

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TECHNOLOGY FOCUS

Subodh Gupta

Chief, Research and Development, Cenovus Energy

EOR Modeling

The enhanced-oil-recovery literature produced in the past several months was dominated by reservoir modeling and characterization; flood enhancements; machine learning; and, more notably, relative permeability estimation. This last one needs to be understood further.

R.V. Marathe

Consultant

Mature Fields and Well Revitalization

In this year’s papers on mature fields and well revitalization, I have found operators focusing on making all-out efforts to improve their ongoing waterflood operations to extend the life of existing wells, which is preferred over drilling new infill wells.

Craig Durham

Production Engineering Adviser, China National Offshore Oil Corporation

Well Integrity

Integrity (noun): the condition of having no part or element wanting; unbroken state; material wholeness, completeness, entirety. While reviewing the abstracts, I was struck by the huge range of challenges to maintaining “material wholeness” beyond the routine testing of tree and safety valves.

Pallav Sarma

Cofounder and Chief Scientist, Tachyus

Digital Data Acquisition

COVID-19 has significantly accelerated the adoption of digital technologies across all industries, and the oil and gas industry has been no exception. As such, interest in digital data acquisition, which is the backbone of all digital transformation work flows, also has increased significantly.

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ON THE COVER

Source: Abu Dhabi National Oil Company.

To hit a new target of 5 million B/D by 2030, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company is testing a seldom-used stimulation technology to access tight and thin onshore reservoirs.

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

Tom Blasingame

2021 SPE President

Chapter 4: Opening the Sails

“Opening our sails” is a metaphor that the worst of the storm has passed or is passing, and it is time to get ourselves shipshape, making necessary repairs and preparations, and get back on course.

COMMENTS

Pam Boschee

JPT Managing Editor

Rolling Into 2021—Take the Time To Adjust Your Worldview

Outlooks for the coming year depend in large part on your own worldview: Are you generally an optimist or a pessimist?

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January 2021 | Volume 73, Number 1

Needles in the Pay Stack: ADNOC Exploring Tight-Oil Rock, Triples Production In First Pilot

FEATURED

Artificial Intelligence in the E&P Industry: What Have We Learned So Far and Where to Next?

Teasing Meaning Out of a Tangle of Fracturing Data

Against the Grain: Three Proppant Delivery Approaches That Buck the Status Quo

Geothermal Well Construction: A Step Change in Oil and Gas Technologies

How Real-Time Evaluation of Slugging Severity Can Help Maximize Production

Flow-Induced Vibration Analysis of Topside Piping at High Pressure

E&P NOTES

GOM Lease Sale Generates $121 Million in High Bids; Shell Offshore Takes Top Spot

TECHNOLOGY FOCUS

Subodh Gupta

EOR Modeling

R.V. Marathe

Mature Fields and Well Revitalization

Craig Durham

Well Integrity

Pallav Sarma

Digital Data Acquisition

STAY CONNECTED

ON THE COVER

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

Tom Blasingame

Chapter 4: Opening the Sails

COMMENTS

Pam Boschee

Rolling Into 2021—Take the Time To Adjust Your Worldview

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