In unconventional plays, only a third of the fractures created during hydraulic fracturing contain proppant. This striking observation, which comes from overcoring and numerical modeling, helps ...

With Permian Basin oil production climbing toward 6.8 million barrels a day and associated gas output approaching 30 billion ...

State and federal policy and regulatory decisions affecting operators in Texas’ oil and gas fields are made miles away, but ...

At 40,000 feet thick in its deepest portion, the Anadarko Basin in western Oklahoma presents one of the premier shale targets in North America. Newfield Exploration Co. opened the STACK (Sooner Trend ...

AUSTIN, TX.–All geoscientists operate with a paradigm or working hypothesis on the nature of the subsurface in their project areas. Having a working model is imperative for predicting the nature and ...

HOUSTON–To optimize the economics of unconventional reservoir development, operators must maximize production by drilling horizontal “child” wells on reduced spacing to efficiently drain hydrocarbons ...

Between 2010 and 2025, the amount of oil an average well in the Lower 48 produces in its first year has jumped from 60,000 barrels to 160,000. And those barrels cost significantly less to access. In ...

TULSA–One of the defining well construction trends in unconventional resource plays is ever-increasing horizontal lengths to increase recovery efficiency. Advances in drilling technology are ...

HOUSTON–Growing numbers of oil and gas companies are mandating as a best practice using natural gas to power drilling rigs, hydraulic fracturing fleets and other well site equipment. And while ...

U.S. Frac Spread Count Data made available by Primary Vision ...

Long before it became the 46th state, oil was discovered in Oklahoma by happenstance while drilling for brine to extract salt–a fundamental necessity of pioneer life. Nearly 160 years later, the ...