fracturing

Good diagnostic testing is often painstaking, time-consuming, and costly, but recent studies suggest that a lack of knowledge can be even costlier.

The future of unconventional exploration will require a break from the status quo. With well productivity stalling, it is time to look for a new plan of attack.

Widely held images of what happens when a well is fractured often bear little resemblance to what actually happens underground.

The rising cost of fracturing offers a significant incentive for finding ways to avoid unproductive rock. One entrepreneur says he can use standard well logs to target the slice of rock likely produce most, and avoid the rest.

The pursuit of sweet spots in unconventional oil and gas plays is driving the creation of an emerging set of data-driven systems to measure, map, and predict how wells will perform in unconventional reservoirs.

Gerald Verbeek contests the theory that fracturing opposition is meme driven.