Acidizing: What It Means And How It Works

In the oil and gas extraction industry, acidizing is a technique used to extend the useful life of an oil and gas well.
World Oil

Explaining sand erosion in oil and gas production: Part II

Part 1 of this two-article series, “Explaining sand erosion challenges in oil and gas production,” ran in the May 2024 issue of World Oil, and it examined issues with sand erosion. This article ...
Nature

Oil and gas drilling is shifting to the deep sea — here’s what is at stake

Yuxin Zhao is a senior scientist at the State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Equipment, China National Petroleum Corporation Tubular Goods Research Institute (TGRI), Xi’an, China. As fossil-fuel ...

U.S. methane emissions flatline, despite increases in oil and gas production

Methane emissions from the oil and gas sector held steady in the United States even as oil and gas production increased ...

Oil and gas industry expected surplus – but war brought shortage instead

In 2023, the International Energy Agency predicted that by 2028 the world’s oil companies would produce more oil than people wanted to buy. Prices responded to that and similar projections of slowing ...