Unconventional/complex reservoirs
Viper Energy is acquiring Sitio Royalties Corp. and its more than 25,000 net acres of royalty interests across major US shale plays.
Extensive acreage overlap and existing operational collaboration drove the acquisition decision.
The authors of this paper describe a method of stimulating a multizone hydrocarbon-producing well wherein a tool is deployed downhole by wireline to generate acid vapor at a target depth, allowing each interval to be treated uniquely.
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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. -
A concurrent deal to sell off some of the acquired assets to Northern Oil and Gas will effectively lower the acquisition cost to $1 billion.
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A Kimmeridge Energy executive said at the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference that he wants to "make unconventional resources investable in a low-carbon world."
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A slate of new pipeline projects are expected to help relieve the oil-rich region's associated gas bottleneck.
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The first long-haul overland conveyor system to deliver proppant is under construction in the Permian Basin.
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Enverus claims hundreds of millions of barrels of gas condensates are nowhere to be found in public data due to a major reporting gap.
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This paper describes the analysis of actual performance data for acid fracturing in a tight carbonate formation to investigate the ineffectiveness of the process.
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The authors of this paper describe an underbalanced coiled-tubing drilling campaign in the operator’s onshore fields using a closed-loop system design.
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The authors describe a casing-leak-repair alternative to allow continued hydraulic fracturing of an unconventional formation.
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A dissolvable collet field tested in an unconventional completion led to an average running time of 32 minutes per stage in a vertical section and 19 minutes per stage in the horizontal section.
