THE WOODLANDS — Try your hand at this oil field engineering problem. You have to get a massive amount of gritty, grimy sand into an oil well - it’s one of the ingredients in the powerful slurry of ...
America’s most productive oil patch is now grappling with a problem it cannot drill its way out of: mounting underground ...
Inflow control devices (ICDs) paired with oil-swellable packers often perform water control during well completions in unconsolidated reservoirs, but ICD-packer systems offer effective zonal isolation ...
Fresh out of university, we often heard statements such as "it takes at least 10 years to become a good engineer" or "good ...