hydraulic fracturing

Advanced tracer technology was deployed in Oklahoma to analyze production across lateral well sections.

Two new studies from completions experts suggest the global upstream industry has a major opportunity in medium-quality reservoirs.

In the Marcellus, Repsol is slicing and dicing legacy data to evolve its completions strategy, while in the Permian, ExxonMobil is mastering the 4-mile lateral drillout using lessons learned.

The service giant shares new details about its automated fracturing spreads that slash human operator workload by 88%.

A magnitude 5.0 quake was followed by a magnitude 4.7 temblor, both in Culberson County in West Texas, an area that is already being watched by the Texas Railroad Commission, the state's oil regulator, because of a jump in seismic activities.

Industry leaders champion collaborative solutions as essential for overcoming fracturing limitations.

Three graduate students have received the 2025 SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference and Exhibition Outstanding Graduate Student Award.

In this paper, an energy-based 3D fracture-reconstruction method is proposed to derive the complex fracture network from microseismic data in a shale gas reservoir.

his paper investigates the challenges faced in the development of mature and tight fields, primarily resulting from reservoir depletion, high operational costs, and uncertainty in reserves volumetric calculations.

A novel approach uses the heart-shaped signal in low-frequency distributed acoustic sensing measurements to estimate the hydraulic fracture tip distance before the hydraulic fracture intersects the monitor well, offering critical insight into the characterization of hydraulic fracture propagation.