1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (365+ words) JPT Homepage Europe’s Largest Carbon Capture Facility Officially Inaugurated The Yara Sluiskil facility in the Netherlands expects to capture and liquefy 800,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually. The carbon dioxide is to be transported by Northern Lights vessels to Øygarden, Norway,…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (317+ words) Calgary-based LibertyStream Infrastructure Partners said it has cleared a major technical hurdle at its West Texas Midland Basin demonstration plant by successfully refining electric vehicle battery-grade lithium carbonate over multiple 24-hour production cycles during the past 3 months. LibertyStream’s “Freedom Launchpad…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (1607+ words) [Editor's Note: Mrigya Fogat is a member of the TWA Editorial Board and is the author of previous TWA articles.] Mrigya Fogat (MF): Hi, everyone. I am Mrigya, editor in chief for The Way Ahead for SPE, and today we're…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (326+ words) [Editor's Note: Nuruddeen Inuwa Aminu is a member of the TWA Editorial Board and is the author of previous TWA articles.] Nigeria has been struggling with stalled industrial growth for more than 3 decades, which was significantly fueled by instability in…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (292+ words) Several other recent publications provide insight into the advancement in our understanding of CCS processes. The effect of low-concentration impurities (SO2, NO2, H2S) within CO2 injected into saline carbonate aquifers is presented in paper SPE 229122. Paper SPE 227600 explores the effect of brine/CO2 interaction with…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (138+ words) JPT Homepage Combined-Cycle Approach Holds Potential for Offshore-Facility Carbon Capture This paper describes the potential of combined-cycle technology (use of a gas turbine and a steam turbine together to turn fuel into electricity) in offshore carbon-capture applications. Floating thermal power…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (169+ words) JPT Homepage Too Much Water, Too Few Answers Disposal wells remain the lowest-cost solution for produced water, but concerns over seismicity and long-term sustainability are accelerating interest in alternatives. It could be argued the Permian Basin is a water play…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (107+ words) JPT Homepage The US Environmental Protection Agency has estimated the US is home to approximately 3.4 million old, unused wells. That’s an estimate. Many of these old wells are undocumented or otherwise unknown. Of the 3.4 million estimated by the EPA, only…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (361+ words) Having had the privilege of reviewing reservoir surveillance papers over recent years, I see one message becoming increasingly clear: The industry is no longer short of measurements; the real challenge is converting them into timely reservoir decisions that protect value....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (182+ words) JPT Homepage Integrated Surveillance and Reservoir Simulation Safeguard Value of Thin-Oil-Rim Brownfield This paper presents a case study from a mature field redevelopment project where pulsed neutron logging was integrated with advanced reservoir modeling to improve the understanding of fluid-contact…...