Hydraulic Fracturing

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November 07, 2018
Spirit of Colorado, an independent expenditure committee tasked with defending Colorado’s economic well-being, tonight delighted in the defeat of Proposition 112, the job-killing “setbacks” measure, which would have ended oil and gas development in Colorado.
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October 29, 2018
Halliburton Company has released the Illusion Spire, the first fluid efficient dissolvable frac plug.
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October 10, 2018
Providing the market with a cold-weather solution, Dow Microbial Control, a business unit of DowDuPont Specialty Products, has launched two new products within its AQUCAR Water Treatment Microbiocides portfolio.
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October 10, 2018
The head of the company set to drill Britain’s first fracing well in a decade shrugs off the risk that protesters and government’s main opposition will shut down his project before it can start.
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October 01, 2018
America’s fastest-growing source of energy has a power problem.
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September 27, 2018
Weeks away from fracing its first well in seven years, Britain’s oil and natural gas industry is stepping up complaints that the government is moving too slowly to approve further projects.
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September 24, 2018
Schlumberger has launched the CemFIT Shield mud-sealing cement system at the Society of Petroleum Engineers Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (SPE ATCE).
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September 20, 2018
Highlands, the London-listed natural resources company, provides the following update about the six new wells being funded entirely by Highlands' partners at its East Denver Project.
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August 21, 2018
Rack up one more thing robots can be used for: Fracing for oil.
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August 21, 2018
Halliburton Company today unveiled Prodigi AB Service, a first-of-its-kind offering that introduces automation to hydraulic fracturing. By automating the breakdown process of a fracturing treatment, Prodigi AB Service helps deliver better well performance.
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July 27, 2018
Halliburton Company introduced MicroScout Plus Service , an offering designed to take hydraulic fracturing, and microfracture stimulation, to the next level by reaching and effectively stimulating secondary microfractures too small to be propped using conventional frac sand.
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July 24, 2018
Cuadrilla has today received final hydraulic fracture consent from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) for its first horizontal shale gas exploration well at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire.
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July 23, 2018
Hi-Crush has entered into an agreement to acquire FB Industries, a manufacturer of silo-based frac sand management systems for $60 million.
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July 23, 2018
Reveal Energy is enhancing IMAGE Frac pressure-based fracture maps with a new platform that uses parallel processing with algorithms to determine fracture geometry for large, complex pad operations in multiple zones.
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July 17, 2018
Superior Silica Sands LLC, a subsidiary of Emerge Energy Services LP, has announced that it has signed an agreement with a third-party logistics provider, Torq Energy Logistics Ltd., to open a new frac sand terminal in Buick, British Columbia.
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July 10, 2018
Standing high on top of a windswept dune in the West Texas plains, Greg Edwards stares out into a vast ocean of sand.
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June 04, 2018
Texas is facing a burning question that’s pitting the state’s economy against its environment, and oil drillers against each other.
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May 08, 2018
Oil producers may be getting in their own way in the race to pump crude from the fertile Permian basin.
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April 25, 2018
The world’s biggest oilfield service companies have a message for investors: There’s a payoff for patience.
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April 19, 2018
Rystad said that pumping horsepower and sand supply are both tight in certain regions of the U.S. However, pumping horsepower and sand supply will see significant additions in the second half of 2018.
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