How and Why to Use Horizontal Alternating Steam Injection (HASD)
Reservoirs with hydrocarbon reserves of low degrees API are already an almost total part of the day-to-day oil operations. Currently, the most important world reserves...
Articles by Andres Ocando
Looking to the Future: Carbon Capture and Storage
One industry that will be worth about 1.4 trillion dollars by 2050, and which as of today has reached the significant investment figure of $300...
How to Control Target Areas During Hydraulic Fracturing
Weight of Hydraulic Fracturing in the Industry Hydraulic stimulations in the oil and gas industry are positioned as one of the first three solutions to...
Technologies That Help Diagnose Hydraulic Fracturing
Hydraulic fracturing is part of the upstream sector, occupying a privileged place in terms of its importance, as it is constantly used to raise production...
API Foundation for Refinery Safety Regulations
Refineries are petrochemical industrial plants where substances derived from crude oil and gas are obtained. Within their walls, transformation and refining processes occur to obtain...
What are the Most Relevant New Technologies for the Upstream Sector?
The upstream sector of the oil and gas industry is based on the first stage of a reservoir’s lifetime. This cycle takes into account the...
Digitalization of the Oil and Gas Industry
At more than 100 years old, the oil industry is one of the most faithful industrial disciplines to its principles; in oil fields or in...
Geomechanics, the Nemesis of the NPT
In the oil industry, project calculations are made based on two values: time and investment, making it clearer than ever that time is money. For...
Use of Natural Gas Production for a Thermoelectric Power Generation Plant
Natural gas is a mixture of hydrocarbons that contains methane (CH4) at an amount greater than 80 percent, volumes of alkanes and, in some cases,...
Reuse of Well Production Water from Oil and Gas Wells
Water is one of the most important resources on the planet. Composed by two molecules of hydrogen and one of oxygen, it represents a renewable...