Whitepapers
World Oil white papers include literature on the latest trends, development and advances in the offshore and onshore oil and gas industry, including technology and technologies relating to operations, shale, technology, subsea, deepwater, rig activity, drilling, innovations in the oil and gas industry and more.
Enable Deeper Offshore Exploration with HOT Pipeline Coatings
July 01, 2026
Sponsored by: Sherwin-Williams
As subsea oil and gas projects push into deeper, hotter environments, traditional pipeline coatings can fail under extreme conditions. This white paper explores how advanced high operating temperature (HOT) coatings improve durability, resist corrosion and enable efficient installation methods. These capabilities are helping operators extend asset life and unlock new offshore opportunities.
The Environmental Strategy Maturity Curve for Upstream Operators
July 01, 2026
Sponsored by:
Are your environmental programs compounding value or risk? As production demand scales, upstream operators face growing pressure around methane, permitting, water management and defensible reporting. Programs built only for compliance are reaching their limits. Upstream teams need a more connected strategy, one that ties environmental performance directly to operational performance. The Environmental Strategy Maturity Curve provides a roadmap for making that change.
AI Delivers Upstream Decision-Making, Capital Allocation and Production
May 20, 2026
Sponsored by: AspenTech
Discover how upstream organizations are using AI to make faster, higher-confidence decisions in an increasingly complex energy landscape. This executive brief explores how AspenTech Subsurface Intelligence™ (ASI) combines agentic AI, domain expertise and cloud-native data platforms to transform subsurface workflows. Learn how organizations are accelerating insights, improving collaboration, increasing productivity and driving greater capital efficiency by turning fragmented data into actionable intelligence that supports better production and investment outcomes.
Corrosion Under Insulation is Retiring After Years of Bad Behavior
April 08, 2026
Sponsored by: Sherrwin-Williams
Notorious for hiding out of sight and wreaking havoc on insulated assets, Corrosion Under Insulation has an infamous rap. But its days of eating through steel and causing leaks and unplanned shutdowns are numbered thanks to thermal insulative coatings that can replace traditional insulation systems. TICs offer similar insulating values as those bulky systems, meaning traditional insulation is no longer needed. Learn how there’s no chance for CUI when there’s no insulation in this paper.
The IIoT PostgreSQL Performance Envelope
April 01, 2026
Sponsored by: Tiger Data
Most IIoT teams only discover Postgres limits when production queries fail.
This white paper, "The IIoT PostgreSQL Performance Envelope," shows exactly where Postgres breaks with industrial sensor data and what to do before moving to a split architecture. No fluff: real benchmarks, query patterns, and thresholds.
If you're building on IIoT telemetry and still deciding whether Postgres can scale with you, this is the data you need.
