Fracturing/pressure pumping
Hydraulic fracturing holds great potential in the region, but there are several key questions worth asking as efforts move forward.
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.
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Second-quarter earnings for the three biggest oilfield service companies arrived with some new takes on where the market is headed. -
SponsoredCatalyst Energy Services’ innovative technology lowers CO2 equivalent greenhouse gas emissions up to 40% and reduces waste up to 99% without sacrificing production output.
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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?
