Fracturing/pressure pumping
The multiyear contract with YPF includes electric pumping units and automated stimulation services.
This paper describes an approach to creating a digital, interconnected workspace that aligns sensor data with operational context to place the completions engineer back into a central role.
This paper demonstrates how the integration of multiphysics downhole imaging with machine-learning techniques provides a significant advance in perforation-erosion analysis.
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The US-based drilling contractor and well completions company will combine to form the second-biggest service company in North America. -
The authors describe a casing-leak-repair alternative to allow continued hydraulic fracturing of an unconventional formation.
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This paper describes efforts at the Hydraulic Fracturing Test Site 2 to collect a research data set to improve understating of spatial and temporal hydraulic fracture dimensions, proppant distribution, and reservoir depletion.
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This paper presents an integrated system for fracturing optimization using real-time and historical data along with organizational knowledge and the challenges and key considerations of implementing such a system.
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In this paper, a comparison is presented of the range of production outcomes for Clair Phase 1 and Clair Ridge, including the potential downsides of relying on natural fractures.
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Fracture monitoring to optimize fluid volumes and designs remains a critical area of development. Research is ongoing with the focus on combining different monitoring technologies including tracers, fiber optics, downhole cameras, and microseismic monitoring.
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When there are two ways to measure something, and they offer significantly different numbers, which do you use?
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The mid-sized completions service provider is betting that automation will boost the competitiveness of natural gas-powered pumps.
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Geologists have identified a formation with a world-changing potential for carbon dioxide storage, but some engineering is required.
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Service company Liberty Energy has announced the formation of Liberty Power Innovations which will specialize in compressed natural gas.
