Reveal Energy Services signs first operator volume agreement

HOUSTON -- Reveal Energy Services has announced the signing of its first operator volume agreement. Arsenal Resources, a pure-play natural gas operator in the Marcellus’ West Virginia core, has agreed to validate the completion designs of its 2018 wells with Reveal Energy Services’ simple, accurate, affordable pressure-based fracture maps.

With the industry’s newest approach to validating a completion design, Reveal Energy Services’ fracture maps quantify fracture half-length, height, asymmetry and azimuth. Solely using a surface pressure gauge that monitors a few stages at a time and a bridge plug, the map data allow operators to analyze hydraulic fracturing effectiveness without downhole tools, downtime or additional crew.

Arsenal Resources first applied Reveal Energy Services’ fracture maps on a number of wells in 2017. A greater understanding of the induced fractures enabled the company to validate its completion designs. Following this initial success, the operator decided that having this information on its 2018 wells would be important.

“We entered into this agreement because we believe Reveal Energy Services’ new approach to fracture mapping provides us a cost-effective diagnostic measurement to enhance our 2018 completion operations throughout the year,” said Jon Sheldon of Arsenal Resources.

The operator’s agreement will be fulfilled by the expanding Reveal Energy Services’ team of geoscientists and completion engineers that supervises well data processing, data interpretation, and the fracture geometry report development. The team’s increasing expertise is another differentiator of the company’s overall pressure-based fracture map technology and five related services that operators have applied on more than 2,500 hydraulic fracturing stages throughout the U.S.