Fracturing/pressure pumping
The multiyear contract with YPF includes electric pumping units and automated stimulation services.
Findings from two new SPE papers argue that the tight-rock sector needs to rethink longstanding assumptions about how hydraulic fractures form underground.
The newest recipient of the title SPE Legend of Hydraulic Fracturing talks about his career, the evolution of fracture stimulation, the development of increasingly useful simulators, and the future of the oil and gas industry. The honor was given at the 2026 SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference and Exhibition.
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Another day, another deal for ProFrac.
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Hitting the next well during fracturing happens all the time. Predictably doing that on a large scale in granite looks a lot harder.
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New automated technology is making it possible to run pressure pumps for days on end.
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The latest ruling reverses a lower court decision to block the Ecopetrol and ExxonMobil programs in the Andean nation.
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This paper explores a holistic approach to characterize trouble stages by applying automated event recognition of abnormal pressure increases and associating those events with formation and operational causes.
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In this paper, the authors discuss what components have contributed to recent proppant-placement cost reductions and use several case studies to illustrate the potential for further cost reductions.
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This paper presents a new real-time method to estimate stage-to-stage interference and well-to-well interference and their implications on completions efficiency.
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Oil companies would have to pay a premium for the hardware and services needed for rapid expansion. But is that likely?
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Liberty will be integrating Seismos’ measurements-while-fracturing system into its completions service to analyze near-wellbore fracture networks and create a near-field connectivity index.
