While every effort is put forth before drilling begins to ensure a successful well, not every well hits hydrocarbons at a commercially productive level. Statistically, wildcat (or exploratory) wells ...

Modern reservoir engineering must accommodate for a complex set of heterogeneous phases contained in the well and petroleum reservoir. Achieving the optimal solution to reservoir problems involves ...

Experience in 1999 during appraisal of the Peng Lai 19-3 field, off China, showed that a cased-hole formation tester has numerous benefits with few drawbacks. This concluding article of a two-part ...

Airbus next year will begin testing a project it calls Fello'fly, which is designed to facilitate the introduction of formation flying on transatlantic routes as soon as 2025. The goal of the project ...

Initial flows from first test interval yields a combination of drilling mud, formation water, gas and traces of oil from the unstimulated perforated interval at a liquid rate between 240 to 290 ...

Driven by tighter CO 2 regulations and more eco-conscious consumers, the pace of migration to electric vehicles continues to accelerate, with up to 10% of all vehicles sold by 2025 expected to be ...