Continuously improving the seismic image quality is key to Shell’s future exploration success in the Canadian Foothills.

In 1986 Diamond Shamrock drilled through hundreds of feet of Gulf of Mexico salt and found a thousand feet of reservoir-quality rock beneath it — and the race was on.

Efficient fracturing techniques used with an appropriate multistage fracturing completion can achieve higher initial gas rates, increased recovery rates, and reduced completion costs.

A new three-level well-life system is helping cement-job designers to diagnose problems in advance to build cement sheathes that maintain integrity throughout the life of a well.

Traditional gas lift delivers only limited success in long interval environments. Newer techniques overcome shortcomings, but a single tool does not solve every problem.

A new mixed-integer constrained global optimization algorithm tackles oilfield production system challenges.

Faced with trying to produce 8.6°API crude with viscosity beyond 10,000 cP, PdVSA found innovative solutions to lifting and metering problems.

“You can’t stop what’s coming; it ain’t all waiting on you. That’s vanity.” -No Country For Old Men

Using the proper metric to measure performance can create a clearer picture of how a company measures up against its peers and can also function as a driver for improvement.

It takes an honest man, or a completely remorseless idiot, to admit, as did Alan Greenspan in late October, that there was a flaw in his economic theory that drove the US economy for a couple of decades, a flaw that has placed it and the global economy on the slippery slope to depression.