...Barbara Pribyl; Greg Horton We continue to live in volatile times. While there has been an easing of the global pandemic, geopolitical issues and conflicts have been increasing. There is also ever-increasing pressure to sanction and maintain oil and gas projects in a socially and environmentally...

..., often the top. This breaks from designs that arranged the holes in a helical pattern with each charge angled 60° from the previous one. “We did see indications we are getting better production from oriented perforating,” said Blake Horton, senior completions engineer for Ovintiv (SPE 204177). Production...

...Greg Horton; Barbara Pribyl Technology Focus The oil and gas industry is still adjusting to the significant change in oil and gas prices, and, unsurprisingly, many of the reserves- and asset-management papers published over the last 12 months focus on adding, optimizing, and protecting value...

...Greg Horton; Barbara Pribyl Technology Focus The oil and gas industry has undergone dramatic change in recent times. On one hand, technology has driven an increase in availability of supply, primarily from unconventional sources. Concurrently, global economic and political influences have resulted...

... of Schlumberger, Erle Halliburton, and M. King Hubbert, famous for his predictions of peak oil production; Gus Archie, the Shell engineer who helped create the discipline of petrophysics; and Ed Horton, inventor of the spar and tension leg platform, whose obituary was published in these pages last month (October...