From the mid-1980s until 1994, U.S. oil and gas exploration and production steadily declined, forcing a significant increase in U.S. imports of crude oil. For example, in 1994, the United States imported more than 50 percent of the nation's total demand, which was the highest level since 1990. To economically develop U.S. oil production in deep-water locations, the industry needed strong, light...

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology has the ability to image surface oil seeps that originate by slow leakage from oiland gas-filled traps. Multi-temporal satellite data over such seeps delineate prospective areas and provide the locations for follow-up surface sampling from which key geochemical information of the reservoir oil can be obtained. Satellite radar can offer the oil industry ...

The US shale exploration and production (E&P) industry has grown since 2007 due to the development of new techniques such as hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. As a result, the share of shale gas in the US natural gas production is almost 50%, and the share of tight oil in the US crude oil production is almost 52%. Even though oil and gas prices decreased sharply in 2014, the product...

Oil and gas exploration in the South China Sea (SCS) has garnered global attention recently; however, uncertainty regarding the accurate number of offshore platforms in the SCS, let alone their detailed spatial distribution and dynamic change, may lead to significant misjudgment of the true status of offshore hydrocarbon production in the region. Using both fresh and archived space-borne images...

Large volumes of water are generated in gas- and oil-production. This includes the that is present originally reservoirs, but also injected into wells. While currently much produced either reinjected or disposed after treatment, treated increasingly seen as an interesting resource, especially water-scarce regions. review looks at different PW treatment methods available, with emphasis on manage...