Ventures for an Energy Transition?
…of historical investments were in upstream technologies (c40% of the total). The investments are also highly digital (c40% of the total). Four Oil Majors are incubating capabilities in new energies,…
Production Losses at a Giant Offshore Oilfield
This data-file breaks down the production losses at a giant offshore oilfield, across five categories and ten sub-categories. They are addressable with digital oilfield technologies, as shown by our notes….
The cutting edge of shale technology?
…digital’ and ‘how economically impactful’ it is. The aim is to provide an overview of shale R&D, including the cutting edge to improve future resource productivity. We estimate 2020 was…
U.S. Shale: Winner Takes All?
…our 300 technical papers should improve future economics. 60% were highly digital, and thus tended to be more impactful. Advanced analytics are still in an early innings. The Permian stood…
Inflow Control: Our Top 20 Papers from 2019
This data-file summarises twenty recent papers using inflow control devices: an exciting digital technology to optimise horizontal wells by limiting production from zones that are susceptible to flowing water or…
Can super-computers lower decline rates?
…to alleviate it. A further 29pp of uplift comes from optimising the development plan for the new platform. Emerging digital technologies appear to be keeping LT oil-markets better supplied than…
Well-by-well optimisation?
…state (chart above). This data-file includes our summary of BP’s patent, schematics for its implementation, data behind our chart above and a ranking of BP’s “digital technology” versus other Majors…
Global average temperature data?
…occurred since that time-period. However this is mostly because of bad data back in the pre-digital world of the 1980s. In fact, NASA’s 1981 data-set did not include any sea…
Data-centers: electricity use and demand shifting?
…opportunity to improve margins of data-centers by demand shifting is covered in our recent research note here. Demand shifting at data-centers and other digital facilities could ultimately permit another 1-2%…
Energy transition: conclusions from 6-months on the road?
…case your curiosity has been piqued, here is my wife’s take on our US adventures, and our permanent re-location to Estonia, the ‘most digital country in the world’… link here….