Hydraulic Fracturing
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May 20, 2019
The Frost #1H well is located in the Northwest Shelf of the Midland Basis, in Yoakum County, Texas, and targets the exploration component of the San Andres Formation.
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May 19, 2019
Select Energy Services Inc., a provider of water to shale drillers, is in the early stages of considering a sale, according to people familiar with the matter.
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April 30, 2019
Halliburton Company has introduced the Elect frac sleeve, a monobore sleeve solution that enables unlimited stage count in multistage fracturing operations.
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April 28, 2019
The UK’s commissioner for shale gas, an advocate for the public, has quit after six months, saying government policies and strict rules on hydraulic fracturing are stunting activity.
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April 23, 2019
QCI has announced the rollout of a 10K psi ESP surface penetrator system, the QCI P5-10K, that eliminates the need and expense of pulling an ESP system on multi-well pads when fracing in close proximity.
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April 16, 2019
Solaris is closing in on water deals with other companies as explorers increasingly outsource one of the key components of fracing.
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April 03, 2019
For the last six years, Kevin Bowen has made a good living selling sand to operators and OFS providers who use it to complete horizontal wells. It was a lucrative market tied to the drilling boom in West Texas.
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April 01, 2019
Sand shoveled out of an Argentina river used to transport soybeans may soon reappear 700 mi (1,100 km) away in the country’s booming shale fields.
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February 27, 2019
Shale fracers right now are about as popular with investors as they are with environmentalists. And on Wednesday, there were hard questions even for a company widely viewed as the best: EOG Resources Inc.
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February 26, 2019
The backlash against shale drilling in earthquake-prone regions -- a thorn in the side of U.S. energy companies for the past decade -- reached China this week after a series of temblors killed two people and reduced homes to rubble.
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February 15, 2019
Warren Buffett showing up in your share register can be a bittersweet affair.
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February 14, 2019
Shale Support Holdings, LLC, a leading provider of frac-sands and logistical solutions to the oil and gas proppant market, has announced it has finalized a deal as a provider for a tier-one petroleum and natural gas exploration and production company
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February 07, 2019
On the second day of SPE’s hydraulic fracturing conference, held on Wednesday, in the Woodlands, Texas, the technical presentations kicked into high-gear, with four major categories being explored by SME’s from operating companies, service providers and academia.
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February 06, 2019
Just a year after rushing into America’s busiest oil field with new mines, frac-sand producers may have overdone it.
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February 06, 2019
SPE’s hydraulic fracturing conference kicked-off yesterday, Feb. 5, with a plenary session that outlined the significance of properly identifying frac hits.
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February 06, 2019
Baker Hughes, a GE company has announced the introduction of its MILLITE lightweight frac plug, which mills out more smoothly and cleans up better than any other conventional frac plug on the market, cutting costs and helping customers achieve first oil faster.
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February 06, 2019
Chemstream Oilfield Services today announced its hydraulic fracturing friction reducer technology (StimSTREAM FR 9800) is reaching up to a 40% decrease in FR usage and has provided significant hydraulic fracturing chemical savings for six natural gas producers in the Appalachian Shale basin.
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February 05, 2019
Reveal Energy Services announces today the commercialization of the FracEYE(SM) frac hit analysis service to expand the industry’s knowledge base about this critical issue of parent well-child well communication.
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February 05, 2019
Silixa Ltd announces the launch of Carina XwellXpress, the crosswell low frequency strain and microseismic monitoring service that accurately locates microseismic and strain events in real-time through wireline interventions, allowing operators to improve stimulation and completion designs to maximize recovery.
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February 03, 2019
Nissan Chemical America Corporation will be exhibiting their line of nanoActiv products as well as sharing recent performance results from various treated wells at SPE HFTC.
