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How is LPG Made?What is the Production Process?
LPG is made during natural gas processing and oil refining. LPG is separated from unprocessed natural…
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What Can Be Made from One Barrel of Oil?
Oil gets a bad rap these days, but the stuff is actually quite incredible. Many…
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Storage, transport and regasification of LNG
Storage at the terminals and on LNG carriers is done in cryogenic tanks at atmospheric…
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New Crude Production Record in Sight as Permian Basin Comeback Continues
As oil prices break through multiyear highs, the heartland of US onshore activity is nearing…
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India plans to seek carbon emissions data linked to each LNG cargo
India will seek carbon emissions data linked to each cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG),…
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Norwegian Tech Deployments Show What 21st-Century Drilling Looks Like
The IADC/SPE Virtual International Drilling Conference held last week helped bolster the argument that if…
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New Joint Venture Targets Digital Integration for Well Construction
Intellilift has joined forces with deepwater rig contractor Transocean in a joint venture aimed at…
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ExxonMobil Testing the Next Step Total Drilling Automation on Land
International rig contractor Nabors Industries has drilled the first of three wells in the Permian…
Understanding Naphtha and Ethane Cracking Processes
Ethylene – because its molecules have very distinctive and useful chemical properties – is manufactured…
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Heavy weight drill pipe (HWDP)
Grant Prideco offers three types of heavy weight drill pipe: Standard, Tri-Spiral™, and Spiral-Wate™. Each…
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⚠️ What Causes Sudden Pressure Changes in Producing Oil and Gas Wells?
A sudden tubing, casing, or flowline pressure shift can signal anything from a choke change to liquid loading or an integrity concern. Learn the patterns worth checking first. 📈⚙️🔍
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🛢️ How Pressure Testing Helps Detect Well-Integrity Problems Early
A stable gauge is not the whole story. Learn how pressure tests reveal leaking barriers, misleading thermal effects, and hidden well-integrity risks before work begins. 🔧📈🦺
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🛢️ How Artificial Lift Systems Improve Oil Well Production
Discover how rod pumps, ESPs, gas lift, PCPs, and plunger lift overcome declining well pressure—and why matching lift to inflow is the real key to production. ⚙️📈🛢️
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📏 7 Well-Integrity Checks Every Production Engineer Should Understand
Unexpected annulus pressure, tubing leaks, corrosion, and weak safety valves can hide in plain sight. Learn the seven integrity checks every production engineer should read. 🧱🔍⚠️
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🧯 5 Lessons From Major Oil and Gas Process-Safety Incidents
Explore five enduring lessons from major oil and gas process-safety incidents—from vapor clouds and alarms to change control and emergency readiness. ⚙️🔥🔍
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🧱 Why Cement Bond Logs Matter Before Well Completion
Before perforating a well, learn what cement bond logs can reveal about hidden channels, microannuli, and zonal isolation—and why one curve is never the full answer. 🛢️📊🧱
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🌡️ How Flow Assurance Prevents Wax, Hydrates, and Scale in Pipelines
Learn how temperature, pressure, water chemistry, inhibitors, and pigging work together to prevent costly flow restrictions in oil and gas pipelines. 🛢️🧪🌊
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📈 How Nodal Analysis Identifies Production Bottlenecks in Oil Wells
Low production is not always a reservoir problem. Learn how nodal analysis maps pressure losses from sandface to separator and reveals the bottleneck worth fixing. 🔎⚙️📉
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🔧 How Hydraulic Fracturing Connects Tight Reservoir Rock to Production Wells
See how horizontal wells, perforations, high-pressure fluid, and proppant create durable flow paths through tight reservoir rock—plus what controls real production. 🪨📈💧
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🛢️ How Drill-Stem Testing Evaluates an Oil Reservoir Before Permanent Completion
Before an oil or gas well is permanently completed for production, engineers need to answer…