Learning curves represent the fundamental relationship between accumulated experience and improvements in performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness in production management. The concept is ...

Drilling rig efficiencies have increased considerably since the crash in oil and gas prices, but will it be enough to offset the recent decline in drilling rig counts? Rig counts can be used, along ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. We provide analysis and insight on the oil and gas industry. Harnessing the power of Big Data is without a doubt the biggest ...

US gas supply trends have much relevance to world oil supply behavior. In his 1956 paper1 Hubbert forecast US natural gas production (Fig. 11) peaking around 1972 at about 14 tcf/year (38 bcfd) with a ...

The US Energy Information Administration ("EIA") recently released a report predicting total US oil production will peak around 2016, level off for a few years, and in 2020 begin a gradual decline ...

Researchers improved and stabilized production for 75 vertical wells on Su-A block of China’s Sulige tight sandstone gas field. They implemented measures that could guide the development of ultralow ...

A new approach to elucidate the operation and control of Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) fuel cells is being developed. A global reactor engineering approach is applied to PEM fuel cells to ...