Midland Basin

The Railroad Commission of Texas is inspecting injection wells in the Gardendale Seismic Response Area where a magnitude 5.3 earthquake and multiple aftershocks struck.

The Permian Basin operator said the purchase ‘checks all the boxes’ it looks for in an acquisition.

The new 42-in. ADCC pipeline will tie the Whistler Pipeline to Cheniere’s Corpus Christi liquefaction facility.

The principles behind unconventional wells lead to production profiles very different from conventional wells. High initial-production rates drop to much lower rates in a matter of months or a few years. How many in the US are currently considered low-production-rate wells?

The acquisition gives Enterprise’s natural gas and NGL business an entry point into the Midland Basin.

The obsession with better hydraulic fracturing has steadily pushed on shale production in year one, but the decline remains steep. Chemistry could help explain, and perhaps extend, the short productive life of these wells.

The complete paper reviews the history of enhanced oil recovery and the Scurry Area Canyon Reef Operators Committee, discusses changes in theory over time, and provides a look at the field’s future.

Pioneer Natural Resources is moving to complete its second major acquisition of another shale producer in less than 6 months.

Wellbore tortuosity is a term that has steadily increased in relevance to the oil and gas industry over the past decade, but its importance is especially clear in the current environment.

The move will bolster Austin-based Parsley’s holdings in the Delaware Basin, giving it a contiguous 120,000 net acres opposite of its original Midland Basin focus area.