Many of the biggest players in the oil and gas industry have adopted the latest visualization tools for virtual collaboration, analysis and decision-making. These technologies are not only linking people with data but linking experts with experts for the ultimate in team-based analysis.

Advanced technologies such as crosswell imaging are being used more often to provide a level of ultra-high resolution information that can reliably support drilling, production and EOR operations.

Designer fluid combines with a novel wellbore strengthening concept to overcome the challenges of drilling in the Wilcox sands and the Midway shale.

Wells flow freely after fluid dissolves blockage in screens.

Weighted fluid helps operator lower time of transition from mud to completion fluid.

Special drilling fluid solution stops excessive mud losses and maintains wellbore integrity in a vuggy limestone formation with substantial natural fracturing.

Tailored solution saves money for operator in sensitive well bore.

Lubricant helps to overcome torque and drag, minimize stick and slip concerns and allow drilling a longer section than initially planned.

Energy industry compensation plans outpace overall industry.

Shell employees gear up for careers at the operator’s college.

With the buzz concerning recruiting experienced workers to replenish an aging workforce, it is important to find ways to keep the ones you have.

Although historically dominated by men, the offshore industry is learning to integrate women into its roster.

Management of partially depleted fields offers opportunities for profit.

As mature reservoirs create more difficult challenges, accurate simulations grow more vital.

Integrated interpretation and modeling improved Oilexco’s reservoir model and reserves estimates for project development.

New technology expands stranded gas development options.

Energy generated from waste gas restores marginal fields.

The greatest challenge is to develop stranded gas at a cost low enough to justify the investment in the face of market risk.

New visualization software unravels more of the seismic interpretation puzzle.

Controlled-pressure drilling encompasses managed-pressure and underbalanced techniques to mitigate hazards that cause non-productive time.

The way you see things depends on where you’re standing.

Oil and gas E&P activities are now supported using imagery from a range of active and passive satellite-based sensors and have raised expectations across the industry.

January tech trends.

There seems to be a lot to worry about these days, particularly in the energy department.

January news and analysis.

New contacts in new industries spark better applications of technology in the oil field.

High oil prices don’t simplify oil and gas operations complexity.

In 1959 the industry was recognized for its 100th anniversary by a special commemorative stamp. It looks like the 150th anniversary will not be so notably honored

In 1874, science fiction writer Jules Verne predicted a world where water replaces coal as the fuel of the future. He’d be happy to know the era of hydrocarbons may be declining. We are approaching the hydrogen age.

In an exclusive interview, OPEC Secretary General Abdalla S. El-Badri discusses the evolution of OPEC and the issues facing the organization. This is the first of a series of E&P interviews with leaders from across the industry.

With little production and lots of potential, this African country wants investments.

Who's going where in the upstream industry.

The 10 commandments of effective field management.