... Drilling Olson 36 JPT APRIL 2019 Data Education The constant talk about the data-driven future of the oil and gas busi- ness poses a threatening question for some petroleum engineers: What do I need to know to ensure I have a job next year? Many universities are adding digital data and analytics...

.... Starting in production gave her the opportunity to interact with diverse groups across reservoir engineering, geoscience, drilling and completions, and joint ventures, and built a solid foundation in understanding the interactions among these groups and the needs of each to be effective. Karen Olson...

...Karen Olson Technology Focus At the 2014 SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference in February, former Texas A&M Department of Petroleum Engineering head Stephen A. Holditch received a well-deserved lifetime achievement recognition, the Legends of Hydraulic Fracturing Award. Among...

...Karen Olson Technology Focus Whoever thought the “drilling process” of “fracking” would be making headlines? In a tour of hydraulic-fracturing operations, ironically in a fossil-fuel-powered vehicle, Yoko Ono was trying to draw attention to the horrors of the process. Of course, no one on the tour...

... the 16 wells that benefited from the mix—up an average of 27%. In the past year, Southwestern has increased its research and laboratory capacity to learn why such things as proppant size matter. “We are now trying to understand what the mechanism really is,” said Karen Olson, completions expert...

...Karen Olson Technology Focus Hydraulic Fracturing: 2012 and Beyond It is a good time to be in the oil industry. The rig count, drilling activity, and oil prices are high, and shale plays are a significant reason for each. And, because it is shale, it is an especially good time to be a completion...

...Karen Olson Technology Focus Lessons (Hopefully) Learned The BP Macondo incident, late April 2010, profoundly changed the way work will be performed, on and offshore. After losing 11 men, injuring others, and losing an exploration rig, it is an appropriate time for the industry to evaluate what...

...Karen Olson Technology Focus Deep water can be an unforgiving environment, one mistake can cost millions and in the worst case cost lives. So why are so many companies willing to take the risk and spend billions on new deepwater fields? Perhaps it is the billions of barrels of hydrocarbon that have...

...Karen Olson Technology Focus Even in today's changing times, the challenges of deep water continue to demand new and innovative technologies. Explorers are finding new fields hidden tens of thousands of feet below the mudline, reaching depths that cannot be completed currently. To produce from...

...Karen Olson Technology Focus The technical challenges of deepwater development cross all disciplines and all phases of a deepwater field's life. It starts with the explorers, who interpret subsalt images to locate potential fields hidden below thousands of feet of salt at depths reaching...