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- Industry environmental disputes come from new paradigms
- SAGD added CSS to make hybrid thermal scheme
- Six ways to unlock the secrets of high recovery polymer
- High VRR overrated?
- Better views than from a drone
- Polymer: Here are the dividends of collective genius
- You don’t know what you don’t know about injection water treatment
Apr 2026
- Blowdown and NCG injection
- AppIntel AI contains much more than technical papers
- AI provides access to regional seismic mapping
- New flood to double reserves for heavy oil pool
- AppIntel AI finds three corner shots
- Flood repatterning
- AppIntel AI shows maps of neighbor's complex geology
- AI makes opportunity more accessible than conferences
- Repairing microannulus in thermal wells
- In-house AI attempts fail-80%
- AppIntel AI provides processed seismic
- Facility fugitive emissions scrutiny
- AI predicts the future for 2026
- Core defining a play - Found by AppIntel AI
Jan 2026
- Celebrating 2025, a year of innovation
- Check out the x-section and net pay map
- RTF: Most refused submission type in November
- Astrobleme impacts deep well disposal scheme
- Non-meridian thermal wells
- Steam surfactant co-injection
- Surprise! Sour gas production from a sweet thermal scheme
- 10 ways to increase production before Christmas - Infographic
- 10 ways to increase production before Christmas
- Using AI to reduce risk of oil and gas failure
- Artificial intelligence using vetted oil and gas information
- Your AI search history is being sold to your competitors
- Smarter acquisitions
- AI alerts increase the speed of innovation
- Elusive promise of ASP flooding
- SAGD Blowdown Experiment
- Selfie-mail: emails to myself
- Your next million barrels of heavy oil powered by AI
- Shared: powerful side by side comparison of before and after polymer flood
- Four ways your flood is crying for help
- Generative and agentic agents in oil and gas AI
- AppIntel AI blog delivering over 50,000 pages views per month
- The making of an oil and gas AI.
- Success is in the pattern not just the polymer
- This breaking horizontal well technology is not described in textbooks
- 7 things you need to know about SAGD Infill wells
- Leading indicators in the battle for the future of bitumen recovery
- Fast-Tracking Regulatory Processes with AI Intelligence
- Stay off the regulator's enforcement ladder
- Mitigating Induced Seismicity — Calm on the surface
- The hidden cost of not knowing
- Experimental heavy oil recovery technology
- Many start floods. Few can fix them.
- How do you choose an AI?
- Don't handle pipeline noncompliance this way
- Too busy to use oil and gas AI?
- Energy industry badly needs AI for growth
- Pacify the picky regulator
- The paradigm shift your competition hopes you ignore
- LLM more trendy than LNG?
- How do we train the millennial oil and gas knowledge worker?
- Prevent SAGD Breakthrough
- The shortcut that could end your career and your company
- Oil and gas will not tolerate AI hallucinations
- Making more oil in a world where AI accelerates change like never before
- AI helps Oil and Gas be wiser than Solomon
- Yogi vs. Granger - AI impediments to resolve for AI success in oil and gas
- Amid tariff uncertainty, Canadian well applications grow again
- Getting flexibility in plant sulfur emissions
- Haters know something you don't
- Smartest hacks to make exploring much more rewarding
- Five impediments to adopting oil and gas artificial intelligence
- Quickly copy industry successes
- How to get out of hot water with the regulator
- KiP - Search box on steroids
- AI helps win at land sales
- Oil and Gas Artificial Intelligence - made in Canada
- 2024 A year of innovation
2025
- Six months of cash gone
- Desktop AI for quick copy of industry successes
- Using oil and gas AI safely
- Water flood for ever and ever
- Sequestration: Oil and Gas Artificial Intelligence solving for World Peace
- What technical debt from 1st generation horizontal wells?
- 6 things you need to know to save the oil and gas industry
- Must you pay the technical debt of legacy floods?
- Avoiding oil field technical debt
- Steps toward Carbon Zero
- Automating oil and gas vigilance
- What makes an AI useful for the oil and gas industry?
- Bug flood - cheap reserve adds
- Gas plant expansion finally approved
- AI lets you do more with less
- AppIntel AI: Work smarter, not harder
- Early solvent in heavy oil experiment
- Rejected? You are not alone.
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
- 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
- What they didn't teach you in school about miscible floods
- Flood still not optimized? The opportunity cost is high.
- The lost science of flood optimization
- Don't battle the regulations alone
- Urgent or Important: Rejuvenating your flood
- SAGD Push/Pull Strategy?
- Detox your waterflood
- Consulting the ghosts of Christmas past about their floods
- 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
- 5 regulatory mistakes to avoid
- Using LLR to bully the regulator?
- 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 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
- Wasted application
- Never tell the regulator this about your D-65 application
- Don't sell solution gas, inject it
- The cure for acidic bitumen - Required reading
- 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 in a facility application
- 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
- 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
- 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
- NCGI hits mainstream
- No steam SAGD - there's a gadget for that
- 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
- Solvent and SAGD -- High voltage edition
- Deadly CO2 flood myths you don't know
- Solids from sludge - there's a gadget for that
- How to fix 95% of all waterflood problems
- Watch the tailings pond debate unfold
- Seven habits for highly effective [tight] floods
- 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?
- 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?
- 8 Classic SAGD gas injection installations
- SAGD infill performance
- 7 classic must-read polymer flood submissions
- Immiscible CO2 Flood
- Solvent flood: set it and forget it
- Polymer doubles recovery
- The changing face of thermal regulation
- How close is too close?
- 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
- Acid gas deep well disposal
- SAGD NCG with CSS Infills
- CSS heat wave
- Cut SAGD steam cost
- How everyone else meets voidage
- 8 ways to get GPP
- Test your thermal recovery knowledge
- Quiz: How mature is your thermal scheme?
- 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
- 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?
- How a new data service can save you millions in capital costs
- Advances in produced water storage
- 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
- 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
- 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
- NCG - End of life support for 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
2016
- SAGD observation wells
- Producing heavy oil from Pekisko mounds
- Safely steaming
- SAGD approval time dropping
- 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
- Reducing water use in thermal operations
- Removing production restrictions for tight oil wells
- 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
- 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
- Bitumen production application refused
- SAGD infills proposed at reduced length
- Replacing SAGD injectors for increased oil rate
- Lean gas flood get 10% additional
- Get your application orders on demand
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Cavern storage rejected by the AER
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Blowdown and NCG injection
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New flood to double reserves for heavy oil pool
The age of water floods is not over
AppIntel AI finds three corner shots
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Flood repatterning
Extended life support
AppIntel AI shows maps of neighbor's complex geology
In a flood of a commingled pool
AI makes opportunity more accessible than conferences
Which sources of technical information do you trust?
Repairing microannulus in thermal wells
Check out the 4D seismic chamber thickness map
In-house AI attempts fail-80%
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AppIntel AI provides processed seismic
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Facility fugitive emissions scrutiny
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Core defining a play - Found by AppIntel AI
Tight oil in SE Alberta
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Astrobleme impacts deep well disposal scheme
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Non-meridian thermal wells
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Steam surfactant co-injection
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