PDC Energy

The authors integrated azimuths and intensities recorded by fiber optics and compared them with post-flowback production-allocation and interference testing to identify areas of conductive fractures and offset-well communication.

Public companies shoring up inventory leads to a shift in Permian asset ownership.

The deal is expected to add over $1 billion in annual free cash flow to Chevron’s bottom line.

The rural Weld County projects total almost 100 new wells in the Wattenberg.

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

Deal expands PDC's D-J Basin holdings into northern Adams County, Colorado.

The shale sector is making moves to consolidate amid investor pressure to increase cash flow. This deal will form the second-largest producer in Colorado’s DJ Basin.

Colorado voters soundly defeated a measure 6 November that would have restricted the vast majority of new development in the country’s fifth largest oil-producing state. The outcome was a big relief for the oil and gas industry, but its existential fight in the state hasn’t ended.

PDC’s president and CEO describes the company’s management strategy for its hydraulic fracturing operations in the Wattenberg Field and the Delaware Basin.

Baker Hughes is developing a drill bit capable of auto-adjusting its depth-of-cut feature to handle dynamic drilling conditions.