shale

An analyst from Rystad looks at the state of the offshore drilling market and the likelihood of recovery by 2021.

A look at a water management plan for developing shale assets in the Permian Basin encompassing the full life cycle of each field.

By using a Bayesian network, a probabilistic graphical model, in their shale operations, companies might eliminate some of the hurdles they face in these areas, an expert said at the 2016 Unconventional Resources Technology Conference.

Challenging environments such as unstable clay formations represent high operational risk when running tubulars after drilling is completed.

One of the most promising targets for resource-rock stimulation in South America is the Vaca Muerta (VM) shale in western Argentina.

At the recent 2015 Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, a major theme was how companies can improve performance without increasing the size of their budget.

Enventure Global Technology is working to convince operators that its solid expandable steel liners perform better than chemical diverter agents for refracturing operations. Its technology is called the ESeal ReFrac Liner.

In this cost-cutting market environment, completion engineers face added pressure to maximize the return on every dollar invested when putting unconventional wells into production.

In this paper, the effect of timing and pattern of well placement on NPV is studied. Three scenarios were evaluated.

The development of an economically efficient drilling program in shale-gas plays is a challenging task, requiring a large number of wells; even with many wells, the average well production and the variation of well performance (economics) remain highly uncertain.