Hydraulic Fracturing Content Feed

Devon, Shell, and SM Energy offer some of their latest learnings from recent independent subsurface diagnostics projects. Their work underscores why this arena of technology has become a cornerstone for hydraulic-fracture design in tight-rock reservoirs.

This paper describes a new intelligent dosing technology to reduce liquid loading in an unconventional tight gas reservoir.

The key element of hydraulic-fracture modeling is the prediction of the generated fracture geometries. Research conducted over the years has trickled down predictive software. Nevertheless, the ability to design optimal fracture treatments is hampered, as we cannot “see” the subsurface.

Second-quarter earnings for the three biggest oilfield service companies arrived with some new takes on where the market is headed.

Another day, another deal for ProFrac.

Hitting the next well during fracturing happens all the time. Predictably doing that on a large scale in granite looks a lot harder.

New automated technology is making it possible to run pressure pumps for days on end.

The latest ruling reverses a lower court decision to block the Ecopetrol and ExxonMobil programs in the Andean nation.

This paper explores a holistic approach to characterize trouble stages by applying automated event recognition of abnormal pressure increases and associating those events with formation and operational causes.