...Dwayne Purvis For more than a century, the oil industry magnificently improved the lives and health of humankind. That fact lies beyond debate. Our industry simultaneously expanded and made profits yet progressively protected water, land, people, and air from its potent products. Those gains help...

... will continue to be the main source of energy for the next 2 decades, with heavy oil constituting a great portion of that. That means that, while the oil industry is going through unprecedented and even unpredictable economic downturns, the status of heavy oil is still unquestionable. However, we have to face...

...Alex Crabtree As I think about this year’s Coiled Tubing feature, we are all in the midst of the effects of COVID-19 social distancing, an oil-price crash, and high levels of oil in storage. What will the world - and the oil industry, in particular - look like in a couple of months? Certainly, cash...

...Bernt S. Aadnøy Technology Focus When students ask me about the most important way to maximize recovery, my answer is long directional wells. These wells have revolutionized the oil industry and are drilled under conditions never imaginable years ago. One outstanding example is the Troll field...

...Vural Sander Suicmez Special Section: The Value and Future of Petroleum Engineering The need to understand the future trends of the oil industry has never been greater than it is today. Throughout the history of the oil industry, technology and innovation have made a significant contribution...

...Bernt S. Aadnøy Technology Focus The ultimate challenge for the oil industry is to drain the reservoirs completely. The average recovery factor is still only 50% in Norway, for example, despite considerable research and development in the past decades. Much more oil remains, leaving us...

..., and social workers. Most workplaces are predominantly male, so women must learn to work within that environment. Women in the oil industry must be at least as—and usually more—competent than their male colleagues. To succeed or even just survive, we must learn to speak “their language” and act in a more...

... includes water-stop mechanisms. Water production is a considerable challenge for the oil industry, from production, cost, and disposal perspectives. At present, there exist many useful completion technologies for inflow control and for workovers and stimulation purposes. New and improved functionalities...

.... When Deep Blue beat Kasparov, it was a watershed event, but the timing of the event was the only surprise. That a computer could beat the best human chess player at some point was certain long before it happened. As with most industries, the oil industry is ripe for automation of the type...

.... We ve been talk- ing about it for years and, in my view, it is mostly over. Peo- ple who, like me, came into the oil industry during the boom years of the late 1970s and early 1980s retired in droves over the past 2 years. I see it when I talk to companies, when I walk around the halls at Chevron...

...Angel G. Guzman-Garcia Technology Focus 2016 was another slow year in the oil industry as the price of oil remained low. Despite the ongoing downturn, the 18th meeting of the Win Cubed Well Test Net-work (WTN) was hosted by Tetra Technologies in Houston in April. There were 37 attendees present...

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...; they are unlikely to be per- suaded by anything that originates with the oil industry. Media outlets tell stories, usually through pictures, and images of big fires, oil spills, or flaming water from faucets tell a story sure to capture public attention. The facts often come later, if at all, once...

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...Niall Fleming Technology Focus Nanotechnology has enormous potential in the oil industry, with numerous applications currently under investigation. These include, for example, improvements in material design for enhanced resistance to corrosion or erosion, improved and enhanced oil recovery...

... in the international oil industry and to be more effective in supply security for the world’s energy, adding that KPC wants to focus on the upstream. “Achieving our crude oil production growth target of nearly 1 million BOPD by 2020, and maintaining it through 2030, depends on the successful implementation of advanced...

...Hisham Saadawi Technology Focus Twenty-five years after the Piper Alpha disaster in the North Sea, process safety continues to be a subject of great interest to the oil industry. A distinction should be made between occupational safety and process safety. Occupational safety deals with personnel...

...Luigi Saputelli Technology Focus The questions addressed in this feature are: What does the petroleum industry need to do to catch up on the generational breach, and how will the oil industry enhance the current training schemes to serve business needs? With the well-announced generational gap...

... oil industry deoxygenation implication online producer uptake water treatment technology produced water discharge technology development application october 2013 desalination MANAGEMENT 82 JPT OCTOBER 2013 As demand for energy continues to rise and conventional sources become more...