Two Majors’ Secret Race for the Future of Offshore Wind?
…far is a 250MW commitment to offtake wind power into its Permian operations from Orsted’s Sage Draw wind farm. For Shell, the narrative is around scaling up today’s wind turbines,…
EOG’s Completions: Plugged-In?
EOG has patented a system to deploy pressure and temperature sensors in its frac plugs, which are then retrieved at the surface, providing low cost data on each frac stage….
SPE Papers about Conventional vs Unconventional Reservoirs
This data-file estimates the number of SPE papers that have been published about conventional and unconventional reservoir engineering in the SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering Technical journal, each year since…
New Diverter Regimes for Dendritic Frac Geometries?
The key challenge for the US shale industry is to continue improving productivity per well, as illustrated repeatedly in our research. Hence, this short note reviews an advance in fracturing…
US Shale: No Country for Old Completion Designs
2019 has evoked resource fears in the shale industry. They are unfounded. Even as headline productivity weakened, underlying productivity continues improving at an exciting pace. These conclusions are substantiated by…
CO2-EOR in Shale: the economics
We have modelled the economics of CO2-EOR in shale, after interest in this topic spiked 2.3x YoY in the 2019 technical literature. Our deep-dive research into the topic is linked…
Shale EOR: Container Class
Will Shale-EOR add another leg of unconventional upside? The topic jumped into the ‘Top 10’ most researched shale themes last year, hence we have reviewed the opportunity in depth. Stranded…
Shale EOR: the economics
This model assesses the economics of a shale-EOR huff’n’puff project. NPVs and IRRs can be stress-tested as a function of oil prices, gas prices, production-profiles, EUR uplifts and capex costs….
Global oil production by country?
Global oil production by country by month is aggregated across 35 countries that produce >80kbpd of crude, NGLs and condensate, explaining >96% of the global oil market. Production has grown…
The cutting edge of shale technology?
The database evaluates 950 technical papers that have been presented at shale industry conferences from 2018-2020. We have summarised each paper, categorized it by topic, by author, by basin, ‘how…