Hydraulic Fracturing
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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.
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January 23, 2019
Seismos, Inc., a technology provider for the oil and gas industry offering real-time frac treatment and frac performance evaluation, has secured a $10.5 million equity financing led by Quantum Energy Partners with follow-on participation from Javelin Venture Partners, Osage University Partners, ATP fund, Hicks Oilfield and other existing investors.
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January 22, 2019
The world’s biggest oilfield service companies are feeling the U.S. fracing slowdown as shale producers slash spending forecasts.
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January 22, 2019
Halliburton forecast a drop in fracing earnings in the first quarter as the OFS announced a cut in capital expenditure to match a more disciplined approach from customers.
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January 17, 2019
Vista Proppants and Logistics, LLC has commenced operations of a transload terminal facility to facilitate enhanced delivery of frac sand into the Midland and Delaware Basins of the Permian Basin.
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January 15, 2019
Statement by Dan Haley, President & CEO of the Colorado Oil & Gas Association, on today’s Colorado Supreme Court ruling.
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January 15, 2019
A new computational model could potentially boost efficiencies and profits in natural gas production by better predicting previously hidden fracture mechanics. It also accurately accounts for the known amounts of gas released during the process.
