Hydraulic Fracturing
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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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April 17, 2018
Australia’s Northern Territory has ended its ban on hydraulic fracturing, boosting the prospects for energy explorers operating in some of the country’s largest petroleum resources.
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April 10, 2018
GEODynamics has introduced a new and evolutionary technology in composite frac plug systems. Called the EVOLV+FracTrapTM Zone Isolation System, it provides both ball retrieval and composite plug technology in one tool that delivers risk-free, ball-on-seat, plug-and-perf isolation solutions to operators.
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March 19, 2018
BNK Petroleum Inc. has announced that the Company has finished the fracture stimulation of the Glenn 16-2H well in the Company’s Tishomingo field, in the SCOOP area of Oklahoma.
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March 08, 2018
A major report from Energent, part of Westwood Global Energy Group, the energy market research consultancy, predicts dramatic changes to the frac sand supply chain to the Permian basin, the world’s most important oil growth region.
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March 07, 2018
America’s development of hydraulic fracturing technology has enabled a new wave of oil and gas abundance in the U.S., and according to U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, the country must focus on maximizing exports for this energy, as well as its technologies.
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March 07, 2018
Two top oil company executives are taking contrasting views on how fracing is changing the industry’s life cycle.
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March 07, 2018
The Oilfield Technology Group (OTG) of Hexion Inc. today announced the completion of its resin-coated proppant manufacturing plant expansion in Canada.
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March 05, 2018
As the intensity of completing unconventional wells continues to grow, so too do the demands on fracturing equipment. Longer laterals, rising stage counts, and increased pressures and proppant loadings per stage make hydraulic fracturing an extremely difficult—and consumptive—enterprise, particularly in the challenging wells seen in regions like the Permian basin.
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March 02, 2018
Britain’s natural gas fracing industry is using a cold snap that’s gripped large swathes of Europe this week and laid bare weaknesses in the UK’s energy supply to make its pitch.
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February 09, 2018
The oil prospectors of Oklahoma, it appeared, finally had a solution to their earthquake problem.
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January 26, 2018
The fracing frenzy in Colorado is spurring a tense faceoff between shale drillers in the region and residents seeking a better handle on the dangers in their own backyards after a killer pipeline explosion last year.
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January 25, 2018
Reveal Energy Services has announced the company has validated more than 2,500 hydraulic fracturing stages throughout the U.S. with its pressure-based fracture maps.
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January 14, 2018
Less than two weeks in, 2018 is shaping up to be the year of the fracer.
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May 18, 2017
Shale explorers pushing to expand oil production are struggling to find enough fracing crews after thousands of workers were dismissed during the crude rout.
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May 04, 2017
Weir Oil & Gas has announced that it has taken an important step in transforming the hydraulic fracturing process. Weir’s latest innovation – the Simplified Frac Iron System – will make the frac process significantly simpler, safer and more productive.
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April 17, 2017
As the North American shale revolution has evolved, spawning new technologies and strategies for drilling and completing horizontal wells with longer laterals and increased frac staging, the upstream oil and gas industry is still learning how to construct wells for maximum, long-term production.
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April 06, 2017
Source Energy Services Ltd., Canada’s largest distributor of fracing sand, or proppant, is seeking to raise C$175 million ($130 million) in an initial public offering, reviving the deal after it was postponed last month as oil prices fell, according to people familiar with the sale.
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March 26, 2017
Schlumberger Ltd. and Weatherford International Plc are forming a joint venture aimed at taking on the king of fracing, Halliburton Co.
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March 20, 2017
Source Energy Services Inc., Canada’s largest distributor of fracing sand, has cut the size of its initial public offering to about C$250 million ($187 million) from C$300 million amid a decline in oil prices, according to a document obtained by Bloomberg News.
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March 09, 2017
A pioneer of the U.S. shale revolution wants to take fracing to America’s final frontier. Success could help revive Alaska’s flagging oil fortunes.
