Issue: June 2024

SPECIAL FOCUS: ARTIFICIAL LIFT

Coated continuous sucker rod lowers RRP and PCP operating costs

Thick, durable barrier coatings protect continuous rod from mechanical and corrosion damage, reducing rod fatigue failures, associated downtime, and operating costs.

New technology allays permanent magnet motor safety concerns, enables better ESP performance

Operators that rule out powerful permanent magnet motors for artificial lift operations are constraining environmental and efficiency gains.

Leveraging artificial lift to optimize production

Artificial lift technologies, including rod lift systems, remain vital to allowing companies to maximize the ROI of older assets. Deeper, more complex, mature wells incur greater wear and tear, and upgrading rod rotators allows companies to extend rod lift systems’ operational life, minimize NPT and overall costs, and optimize production.

ESP challenges in an EOR project after breakthrough: An analysis of continuous improvement for ESP designs towards the reduction of OPEX

A special project explains the symptoms of each cause of ESP failure to determine ways to improve OPEX by tracking ESP failures, ranging from 90 days up to 900 days. It performs a detailed dismantle-and-failure analysis (DIFA), combining reservoir data, tear-down information, and sampling composition analysis, triggered evidence and patterns previously not identified.
Features

Rethinking sand management for optimized production

Over the past decade, FourPhase has gathered solids management data from more than 150,000 hrs of operation. Vast amounts of data yield completely new perspectives. Rather than viewing sand production as a challenge, we recognize its positive aspects in reservoir management. Producing sand can be positive for your well, if done in a controlled manner.

Explaining sand erosion in oil and gas production

Part 2: Erosion, due to entrained sand, is a growing problem, and existing technologies have limitations, but new solutions are available to address this issue.

Well decommissioning: Simple solutions to complex problems

Traditionally, barrier testing and subsequent validation by a technical authority can sometimes rely on personal observations and subjectivity. HydraWell looks to strike a successful balance of its values while pushing boundaries and inventing pioneering technologies that will transform well integrity management operations around the world.

Faster and better subsurface imaging for reservoir optimization

This article discusses the significance of nodal technology for geophysical data acquisition in the oil and gas industry, and STRYDE’s participation in the world’s largest nodal survey in the Middle East.

Aramco's upstream digital transformation helps illuminate the path toward excellence

Redefining oil & gas investments beyond conventional financial systems

While the natural gas market faces challenges like oversupply and political barriers to exporting, the upstream sector presents unique investment opportunities by taking a fresh perspective that considers evolving global +demand, regional dynamics, ESG factors, and unlocking value through strategic adaptation and informed decision-making.
Columns

First oil

Postcards from Calgary

What's new in production

There is more about oolitic aragonite than one might imagine

Oil and gas in the Capitals

Update on the ASEAN offshore E&P threat picture: Temperature rising

Executive viewpoint

Addressing hydrogen hurdles to unlock net zero potential
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