Permian Basin

M&A market activity in the third quarter delivered the best showing of 2022 despite price volatility and a dearth of deals in the prolific Permian Basin.

The Permian Basin operator said the purchase translates to more than a decade of additional inventory.

In this first part of a two-part series, we look at how the artificial-lift sector has adapted to producing unconventional resources. The second part of the series to publish in November will crack open the lift toolbox to take a deeper look at the techniques and technologies under development or new to the market.

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

When Occidental Resources switched to bigger fracture designs to produce more oil, it produced more water as well. Based on research done since, they cannot have one without the other, and at the oil prices recently seen, that’s OK.

This paper highlights a tailored chemical treatment strategy developed for solids mitigation for a Delaware Basin operator.

The complete paper builds on existing tools in the literature to quantify the effect of changing well spacing on well productivity for a given completion design, using a new, simple, intuitive empirical equation.

A fresh batch of expansions and a new pipeline are set to provide operators offtake options.

This paper presents a work flow that has been applied to crossdipole sonic data acquired in a vertical pilot well drilled in the Permian Basin.

Chevron assets in Texas and Colorado have earned high marks for control of methane emissions under a pilot program with Project Canary, paving the way for its sale of responsibly sourced gas.