Fracturing has a major impact on well productivity and ultimate recovery, and the current methods used to determine propped fracture geometry are not providing the information necessary for engineers to substantially improve fracturing results. A new alternative offers a better solution.

The emergence and increasing adoption of Web services, based on standard Internet protocols, is beginning to transform E&P data management, reducing entrenched costs and facilitating faster, tighter integration of disparate systems.

The industry faces some interesting challenges as it prepares to move into Arctic areas in the years ahead, and there is no basis for complacency or over-confidence in thinking that tools are in place to contend adequately with the challenges this area poses.

Twenty years of decommissioning offshore oil and gas facilities creates a knowledgeable framework for estimating new projects.

Hurricane Katrina created abandonment challenges in the form of complicated platform and well conditions that, in some cases, required a new way of tackling projects.

During the project, Shell developed a shared HSE vision with Chinese contractors that resulted in open communication and only four minor lost time incidents in the first three years of drilling and development.