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SPE Live: Powering Performance - Engineering with Data & the Energy Expansion

Join this SPE Live to learn more about the evolution of data and analytics in well construction, and how the lessons learned in traditional drilling are being applied to the energy expansion. Topics discussed:

Data-driven performance – Using analytics to take our industry forward.
Innovation – New technologies driving a shift in our industry.
Productivity – Putting ideas into action to meet the world’s energy needs.

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SPE Live: Powering Performance

SPE Live Technical Director Series: Drilling Operations and Progress within HSES. Can We Do Better?


 

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SPE Live: Trends in Well Construction Automation: More to Come? 


 
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SPE Live: Interoperability as a Key Factor to Better Drilling Automation 


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Navigating the Energy Trilemma: Oil and Gas Industry Making Strides

Navigating the Energy Trilemma

The upstream oil and gas industry continues to drive innovation in its quest to solve the monumental challenge of supplying energy to the world in an affordable, secure, and sustainable way.

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Geothermal Demands Extreme Tools, but Which Will Really Be Required?

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When confronted by extremely hot wells drilled into hard rock, engineers start looking for new tools and then ask, is there a cheaper option?

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Microwave Drilling Sounds Like Science Fiction but So Does Drilling Down to the Hottest Rock

Four pictures taken during a recent test of a microwave drilling technique developed by Quaise Energy.

One of the problems with geothermal is that the rock that is hot enough to create the steam needed to run a power plant is also capable of destroying drilling hardware.

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Navigating the Energy Trilemma: Oil and Gas Industry Making Strides

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The upstream oil and gas industry continues to drive innovation in its quest to solve the monumental challenge of supplying energy to the world in an affordable, secure, and sustainable way.

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Offshore Drilling and Completion

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Optimizing and continually increasing efficiencies at every stage of the drilling and completion process are central themes in the papers showcased in this feature. Innovating our way through difficult times is what the oil and gas industry excels at, especially during challenging periods.

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Drilling and Completion Fluids

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At every stage, well-construction projects must be concerned about those aspects to establish measurable barriers for preventing issues. Therefore, drilling and completion fluids are critical for achieving project goals and ensuring operations are executed as planned.

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Elephant Hunt: The Search for the Oil and Gas Supplies to 2050

Namibia is home to the newest herd of ‘elephant’ fields, with an estimated 11 billion bbl of oil discovered off its shores in the past year.

While many expect oil and natural gas to retain their roles in the energy mix of 2050, the more significant question should not only be on how much oil and gas will be needed but from where the world will find it.

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SPE Energy Stream

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