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- AI lets you do more with less
Apr 2024
- Rejected? You are not alone.
Jan 2024
- Forgot to take care of that flood?
- Case studies in AppIntel AI
- N/S E/W Does it matter which way you drill horizontal wells?
- Tuning up your flood adds production
- Will AI take your job?
- Submit seismic for downspacing?
- Update on gas cycling economics
- Enough gas to supply the world for 500 years
- Fracking very rarely induces earthquakes
- Life after SAGD
- Water flood for ever and ever
- Jumping on the gas injection band wagon
- Increasing the H2S content of your gas plant
- Life after WAG
- Huff and puff into tight oil - Miscible style
- The little known story behind immiscible CO2 flooding
- Our flood coach reacts to ultra tight flood: Amazing!
2023
- Health check up for gas floods
- 10 ways to increase production before Christmas
- What they didn't teach you in school about miscible floods
- Flood still not optimized? The opportunity cost is high.
- What technical debt from 1st generation horizontal wells?
- Must you pay the technical debt of legacy floods?
- The lost science of flood optimization
- Alberta operators losing $10 billion per year from unoptimized floods
- Avoiding oil field technical debt
- Don't battle the regulations alone
- Urgent or Important: Rejuvenating your flood
- SAGD Push/Pull Strategy?
- Don't blow the lid
- Detox your waterflood
- Consulting the ghosts of Christmas past about their floods
- Smarter acquisitions
- 5 ways your flood is trying to get your attention
- 8 benefits of flood balancing you don't know
- Benefits of balance
- Improve your water flood with Optiflood from Proven Reserves
- Injecting bugs in SAGD
- Reducing miscible solvent bank thickness
- Technicality closes application
- Gas flood nears 45% recovery
- Fixing flood noncompliance the wrong way
2022
- Hope in a despondent industry
- 10 ways to increase production before Christmas
- 5 regulatory mistakes to avoid
- Pacify the picky regulator
- Using LLR to bully the regulator?
- VRR <1 is optimal
- Quench your thirst for net carbon zero
- Gas Huff and Puff in the Duvernay
- Horizontal wells: Toe up or toe down?
- Sign of oil & gas confidence returning
- Gas flooding the Montney in fashion
- IAR back online
- IAR is not responding
2021
- Lessons learned from water flooding the Montney
- Compliance due dilligence
- The easiest sulphur process is no sulphur process
- Breathing life into SAGD
- Battle for the future of waste facilities
- Water flood applications getting quicker approvals
- Addressing potential seismic activity from fracturing
- Apps on strike
- Application refused on technicality
- Tight flood fundamentals
- Selfie-mail: emails to myself
- Wasted application
- Never tell the regulator this about your D-65 applicaton
- Don't sell solution gas, inject it
- The cure for acidic bitumen - Required reading
- Every drop counts
- Save the world: recycle floods
- Last chance water flood
- What they didn't tell you in school about fireflood
- IAR back online
- IAR is not responding
2020
- SAGD Solvent
- Applications are the new exploration
- Water use in times of emergency
- Update on CHOPS economics
- 8 common misconceptions about horizontal injectors
- Improving SAGD Using Dilation
- 411 - Look up your pool's history
- Never tell the regulator this about a facility
- The next chapter in CSS
- Gas huff and puff
- 16 ways to handle objections to new facilities
- Preventing SAGD Headaches
- NCG or Infills : Why choose?
- The shocking reason for most flood failures
- Can warm solvent start up save SAGD?
2019
- AER's IAR is up and running again
- AER's IAR is down
- Saving sour bitumen
- You've never thought of storing bitumen here
- Cost of waiting on AER orders $50k
- Take the pressure off SAGD
- Terrified of objectors?
- N-CHOPS stands for...
- New details just released on microbial flooding
- The dream of steam-less SAGD
- THIS is why floods really fail
- Safer than self-driving cars
- Approval for no inter-well distance
- How to double tight flood recovery
- The newest Montney flood idea
- The Electro of SAGD
- Horizontal Injectors - let the magic begin
- The algorithm of SAGD success
- The swiss army knife of SAGD
- Free drilling location
- Most pathetic reasons for oil and gas project failures
- The forgotten oil sands projects
- Polymer success - 4th time's a charm
- Save the world by recycling drilling fluids
- Most common challenges facing SAGD
- The future blockchain of oil and gas marketing
- Managing tailing ponds the easy way
- Conserving solution gas into wormholes
- How the rich and famous run their one-window applications
2018
- Record number of facility applications
- Pipelines fail big every minute you don't read this article
- The demise of THAI - a few last words
- Shared: powerful side by side comparison of before and after polymer flood
- NCGI hits mainstream
- Recycling that really makes a difference - gas condensate pools
- Polymer flooding now that the Alberta recession is officially over... Or is it?
- The rise of tailing ponds and how to make it stop
- This Montney gas flood will melt your heart into a happy puddle
- 4 reasons you might blame the Alberta recession on SAGD
- Breathing fire into your thermal scheme
- Things you didn't learn in school about salt caverns
- Here's a reason gas injection should give you nightmares
- Hold the CSS steam still - rotate the world around it
- Facility dreams die every minute you don't read this article
- Polymer - hot and salty
- Solvent and SAGD -- High voltage edition
- Deadly CO2 flood myths you don't know
- Solids from sludge - there's a gadget for that
- No steam SAGD - there's a gadget for that
- How to fix 95% of all waterflood problems
- SAGD turned CSS
- Shale in SAGD
- Watch the tailings pond debate unfold
- Seven habits for highly effective [tight] floods
- 7 things you need to know about SAGD Infill wells
- You love SAGD. So do we.
- 10 ways to prevent flow to surface
- If this sweetening process is so awesome, why doesn't everyone use it?
- AER's systems back up
- IAR system down again
- 9 potent ways to enhance steam injection: SAGD
- The joy of awesome water shut-off
- 10 operations take thermal to the next level
- The saddest CO2 flood failure of all time
- Is the world ready for disposing drilling waste this novel way?
- The rise of water recycle
- 8 Classic SAGD gas injection applications
- SAGD infill performance
- 7 classic must-read polymer flood applications
- Immiscible CO2 Flood
- Six months of cash gone
- Solvent flood: set it and forget it
- Polymer doubles recovery
- Locating your facility in peatlands
- KiP - Search box on steroids
- The changing face of thermal regulation
- Inject your sour gas
- How close is too close?
- Getting flexibility in plant sulfur emissions
- AER's systems back up
- What after ASP?
- Extending oil recovery with gas injection
- Justifying 4D seismic
- IAR system down again
2017
- Changing the thermal bitumen paradigm
- Unprecedented polymer diverter trial
- AER's systems back up
- How long will my application take to be approved?
- IAR system down
- ASP flood quadrupled
- No steam bitumen recovery
- Waste facility very popular
- Evaluating acquisitions
- Flood pattern repatterning
- Acid gas deep well disposal
- SAGD NCG with CSS Infills
- CSS heat wave
- Cut SAGD steam cost
- Don't handle pipeline noncompliance this way
- What everyone else thinks of injecting polymer
- How everyone else meets voidage
- 8 ways to get GPP
- Test your thermal recovery knowledge
- Quiz: How mature is your thermal scheme?
- Repairing microannulus in thermal wells
- Are they draining your gas?
- Stickhandling application approvals
- Long approval time for waste facility
- SAGD Approval takes 4.5 years
- SAGD flexibility for Maximum Operating Pressure
- Getting a 2 year pipeline licence
- ASP flood expansion at $50 oil
- Self Storage of Acid Gas
- The very last spacing application
- Beautiful people listen to their flood
- Protecting your thermal scheme from FTS disaster
- SAGD threat turned into opportunity
- Find Montney corner shots
- How to get out of hot water with the regulator
- Get by without a SAGD application
- The last word on non-condensable gas injection?
- Taking a SAGD sabbatical due to economics
- What does this SAGD operator, a rock star and a civil war hero have in common?
- Order documents from one application
- How a new data service can save you millions in capital costs
- Smartest hacks to make exploring much more rewarding
- Advances in produced water storage
- Elusive promise of ASP flooding
- This one small error can close your pipeline application
- Countercyclic: New SAGD project in hard times
- Electrically heating bitumen saves cost
- Heating bitumen with electrical current
- Gave away his regional seismic mapping
- When pipeline regulatory approval takes longer
- You can get away with a smaller setback -- maybe.
- Everything you need to know about WAG
- SAGD trial way out west
- SAGD: Life after CSS
- Solvent SAGD coinjection: Propane or butane?
- Solvent SAGD before it was cool
- Lifehack: Look for corner shots next to pressured up floods
- 3 things wildly successful oil and gas companies refuse to do
- Life after miscible flood
- Why use a tech when an expert is cheaper?
- More primary heavy oil at $45 oil
- The problem with multi-lateral wells
- Ways to get more SAGD with less
- 4 ways to be smarter about SAGD
- 4 ways to be smarter in an age of information overload
- If you need a pipeline application approved, this may be the most important news you read all year
- Newest play of the year
- Forget OTSG. Waste facility is the new sensation.
- Try this one seismic hack before buying property
- Do this every time you submit to the regulator
- Life hack: splitting steam for better conformance in SAGD
- Deferral of asp injector conversions
- How to reduce sulphur recovery
- Find Montney seismic interpretations
- Bi-directional pipeline refused
- Injecting Alkali in SAGD
- Backup OTSG steam
- SAGD CO2 injection proposed
- Dealing with depleted SAGD
- Restriction relief on a reef platform
- Healing by voluntary self disclosure
- Life after a noncompliance notice
- Pipeline application took 1.5 years to approve
- Heavy oil at 38 m interwell
- SAGD stalled over access management plan
- SAGD horizontal dogleg
- Monitoring casing failure using passive seismic systems
- Facility application closed on technicality
- Don't get your pipeline application closed by the regulator
- Get your competitor's maps on demand
- New moving average voidage replacement strategy
- Evolving maximum wellhead injection pressure process
- Seismic interpretation released to public domain
- Bug food concentration in microbial flood
- Closed applications -- painful and expensive
- Monitoring out of zone injection with microseismic
- Blowdown and NCG injection
- 4D Seismic in SAGD confirms bitumen thickness
- Top Downloads May 2016
- Uprating a gas plant with sulphur recovery
- Life after a tight water flood fails
- Flooding with microbes
- Ten corner shots on this pool
- Top Downloads April 2016
- Deepest SAGD project
- Safe steam strategy
- Make the most of MaxWHIP approval
- SAGD Blowdown Experiment
- Frac facility modified
- Reactivation candidate sidelined
- Life after ASP - Saving cost
- View someone else's net pay map on your land
- Horizontal CSS schedule: 60-soak-60
- No SAGD application required
- Even more SAGD at $45 oil
- Saving SAGD OTSG from caustic failure
- Extending flood with net pay mapping
- Fall out from flow to surface
- Starting a solvent-assisted SAGD at $40 oil
- Giving too much to the regulator
- THAI replaced by primary heavy oil
- Mitigating flow to surface risk
- More SAGD at $40 oil
- SAGD at $40 oil
- Get historic AER application documents on demand
- Additional diluent supply
- Diluent Soak in CSS
- Steaming under highway 881
- Healing SAGD hot spots
- Solution gas injection cancelled
- When a sliding river bank threatens your pipeline
- Processing non-Alberta waste
- Injecting in the wrong zone
- Toe shot in the public domain
- Early non-condensable gas injection project
- AER: CSS Operations are fine
- Non-condensable gas injection and SAGD infills
- Restrictions on HPCSS
- Coalescing floods
- Handling contaminated snow melt
- Injecting polymer without plugging off
- Life after primary heavy oil
- Efficient Steam generation - OTSG
- Life after wormholes
- AER's systems back up
- SWAG Sour-water-alternating-gas injection
- Closed application shows undrilled parcel
- Injection approval catches up
- Edge shot from AER application maps
- Routine satellite mod automatically refused
- IAR is down
- Methane and steam as fence injection
- SAGD MOP bid stalled out of the gate
- Prevent oil sands leases from expiring
- Regional Manville geological study
- First play based applications approved
- Frack tank farm proposals refused
- Spreading CSS to multi-well flood
- Sometimes you need to flare
- Cancelling surfactant and polymer injection
- Don't end up in a hearing
- Formation picks in complex reservoir
- Testing steam conduction affect
- Jumping on the NCG bandwagon
- How to evaluate thermal compatible wells
- Cutting SAGD costs by generating steam from produced water
- Recession proof reserves adds by flood optimization
- Gas injection: Cheap reserves adds
- Doubling max wellhead injection pressure
- Huff and Puff with Solvent
- AppIntel AI includes the missing UWI
- ASP Polymer Concentrations
- Seismic in the public domain
2016
- SAGD observation wells
- Producing heavy oil from Pekisko mounds
- Safely steaming
- SAGD approval time dropping
- Sulphur plant turndown
- Undrilled offsetting acreage
- Expanding a successful polymer flood
- Drilling through fault blocks
- How to mine a storage cavern
- Preventing surface uplift
- No interwell spacing for pad wells
- Dealing with SAGD steam breakthrough
- Improve SAGD conformance
- Reducing water use in thermal operations
- Removing production restrictions for tight oil wells
- Three corner shots
- AER closing more & more pipeline applications
- Oil Sands Mine plans cancelled
- IAR is back up
- IAR down for maintenance
- Get Mannville net pay maps
- How to double your SAGD MOP
- Watch someone's application in real time
- New GPP rules
- THAI failure in field test
- Flooding a commingled pool
- How the AER calculates VRR
- Record pipeline licences in 2015
- IAR is back up
- IAR down for maintenance
- Injecting methane into SAGD
- Reducing SAGD testing frequency
- Life after polymer flood
- Objector forces application withdrawal
- CSS in thin zones
- Undrilled net pay up for grabs
- Drainage showing on net pay map
- Bitumen production application refused
- SAGD type logs in the public domain
- SAGD infills proposed at reduced length
- Replacing SAGD injectors for increased oil rate
- Lean gas flood get 10% additional
- Using AppIntel AI for competitive intelligence
- Get your application orders on demand
- Quickly copy industry successes
- Horizontal well placement cross section
- Horizontal well exploiting narrow channels
- Halfway picks in the public domain
- Tripling the size of an ASP flood
- Scheme with 45 disposal wells
- Gas injection doubles oil reserves
- Operator Cancels SAGD Scheme
- Repressuring SAGD gas cap using combustion
- Seismic monitoring wells in CSS
- Reducing SAGD Cost
- How to win at land sales
- Ensure you can drill on schedule
- Forecast approval time for your application
- Using AppIntel AI to keep up with the Joneses
- ASP floods at $50 oil
- AER declines help to reduce backlog
- Disposal or flood?
- Flood refused by the regulator
- AER's IAR back in business
- Scheme with 45 disposal wells
- Regulator holds up CSS on max operation pressure concerns
- Free drilling location shown in public domain
- Approval only because of tubing change
- AER's IAR still down
- Technicalities close 10 spacing applications
- Addressing potential seismic activity from fracturing
- AER's Integrated Application Registry down
- Repressuring SAGD gas cap using combustion
- Seismic interpretations in regulatory applications
- Immsicible gas injection gaining popularity
- Second acid gas waste disposal well
- Examining a CSS casing failure
- Acquisition scouting with AppIntel AI
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Automating oil and gas vigilance
AppIntel AI watches the industry for you
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Leading indicators in the battle for the future of bitumen recovery
Methane or Propane?
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What makes an AI useful for the oil and gas industry?
Eight AppIntel AI guidelines for usefulness
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Bug flood - cheap reserve adds
Be careful what you inject
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Gas plant expansion finally approved
Like playing jenga with the regulator?
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AI lets you do more with less
Cheapest, biggest and most current source of oil and gas breaking information
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LLM more trendy than LNG?
Large Language Model for oil and gas
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AppIntel AI: Work smarter, not harder
Those that can't see the value of a car should walk
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Early solvent in heavy oil experiment
Partially upgrade bitumen in-situ
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Rejected? You are not alone.
Facility amendments can be frustrating
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Forgot to take care of that flood?
Schedule these 12 activities every year.
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Case studies in AppIntel AI
Every blog post has one.
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N/S E/W Does it matter which way you drill horizontal wells?
Is there science to drilling azimuth?
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Tuning up your flood adds production
Cheapest reserves adds come from tune ups
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Will AI take your job?
4 jobs that AI is poised to take
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Submit seismic for downspacing?
Rarely a good idea
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Update on gas cycling economics
This is Huge
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Enough gas to supply the world for 500 years
Riding motorbikes past 2500 AD
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Fracking very rarely induces earthquakes
The few tremors fracking has induced are minor
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Life after SAGD
Replacing steam with methane
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Water flood for ever and ever
Check out the net pay maps
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Jumping on the gas injection band wagon
Recovery boost by 50%
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Increasing the H2S content of your gas plant
Approved by the regulator
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Life after WAG
WAG fails again
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Huff and puff into tight oil - Miscible style
Learn from horizontal well case study
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The little known story behind immiscible CO2 flooding
The inside scoop
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Our flood coach reacts to ultra tight flood: Amazing!
Click to clap
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Health check up for gas floods
Make sure your gas flood is A-OK
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10 ways to increase production before Christmas
Each cost less than half a million
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What they didn't teach you in school about miscible floods
CO2 chasers
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Flood still not optimized? The opportunity cost is high.
Always choose the best return.
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What technical debt from 1st generation horizontal wells?
Are your horizontal wells old age or new age?
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Must you pay the technical debt of legacy floods?
Reward: Production and cash flow increase
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The lost science of flood optimization
Whither all the flood engineers?
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Alberta operators losing $10 billion per year from unoptimized floods
How much are you losing?
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Avoiding oil field technical debt
Is technical debt costing you production?
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Don't battle the regulations alone
Maybe you too can sour-up your pipeline
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Urgent or Important: Rejuvenating your flood
Remember flood-day
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SAGD Push/Pull Strategy?
Disposing into a producing formation
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Don't blow the lid
Fracking into a neighboring well causes a blowout
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Detox your waterflood
New reserves from tired old floods
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Consulting the ghosts of Christmas past about their floods
Making the most of your new acquisition
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Smarter acquisitions
Video demo on using the KiP box for acquisitions
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5 ways your flood is trying to get your attention
Are you listening? Take the quiz.
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8 benefits of flood balancing you don't know
Balance your new flood. Catch the upside.