By Scott Weeden
By eliminating tripping for installing and removing plugs, and perforating, companies can cut the time for hydraulic fracturing dramatically.
By Scott Weeden
Using a propane gel to carry sand and chemicals into shale formations saves water, but regulators are concerned about ignition of the LPG.
Production
The Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America is looking for proposals from small producers; the organization expects to award $35 million in eight to 15 awards under its current unconventional resources program.
Silica North has been working diligently on its Fort Liard project and subject to financing, expects to start construction of its operation in 2012 with anticipated production in 2013.
The rule will require Texas oil and gas operators to disclose on a national public website all the ingredients and water volumes used to hydraulically fracture wells in Texas.
By Scott Weeden
The lessons learned by 3Legs Resources in its first two horizontal fracs will enhance production in future wells.
By Mike Madere
CEO is optimistic that the industry can forge an agreement with environmentalists and the public.
By Thomas Hayes, Ph.D., and Trevor Smith, Gas Technology Institute
Operators, technology companies, and service providers need to work together to meet shale gas production water management challenges.
By Dr. Claude E. Cooke, Burleson Cooke LLP
With the introduction of shale gas drilling in the northeastern US, newspapers have a new front-page headline, and politicians have a new subject to debate (mostly with a negative view) — hydraulic fracturing.
By Steven J. Weghorn, Baker Hughes
A complete frac additive program reduces costs, lowers HSE risk, and maximizes production.
By Dick Ghiselin, Senior Editor, E&P
Target acquisition technique uses logs to identify the best targets for multistage frac jobs. Production results prove the technique’s value — by far.
BJ and Baker Hughes blend more than 28 years of shale gas fracturing experience in IntelliFrac.
By Matt Blauch and Bill Grieser, Halliburton
For maximum production, look at the life of a shale-gas play.
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News
Exploration
By Mike Forrest, Consultant
Once the land grab is over, operators should turn to seismic data to understand their valuable acreage.
By Larry Prado, Activity Editor
Across all unconventional plays, speaker Murray Roth said advanced seismic applications and techniques could provide benefits before drilling.
By Chris Neale, MicroSeismic Inc.
Buried arrays provide increased reservoir understanding at a fraction of the cost of surface monitoring.
By Steve Rogers & Bill Dershowitz, Golder Assoc.
Modeling discrete fracture networks optimizes frac design and performance.
By Jack Dvorkin, Stanford University and Ingrain Inc.
New sampling techniques bring field-size tests into the laboratory.
By Carl H. Sondergeld and Chandra S. Rai
Combining standard petrophysical measurements with new rock physics observations can help characterize unconventional reservoirs.
By Rhonda Duey, Senior Editor, E&P
Mitchell Energy proved that technology makes a difference when it used horizontal drilling to unlock the secrets of the Barnett Shale. New technological breakthroughs will continue to be needed in the years ahead.
By Judy Maksoud, Executive Editor, E&P
The Cherokee Basin is emerging as a significant coalbed methane (CBM) play.
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Drilling
By Scott Weeden
Three wells were directionally drilled with coiled tubing in the Kansas Niobrara Formation and two horizontal wells are planned for early in 2012.
By Nina Rach, Senior Editor, E&P
Shales are heterogeneous and plays differ, but new, innovative technologies are available to help explorationists and engineers.
By Nina Rach, Senior Editor, E&P
New drill bits are optimized for unconventional reservoirs.
By Jim Shamburger, Encore Bits LLC
SideWinder design can be incorporated into any standard profile PDC bit.
By Matt Meiners, Hughes Christensen
New bit design offers a variety of cutter choices for different formations.
By Andy Murdock and Roger Smith, NOV
NOV’s TC11 bit combines forged-in tooth and jacket protection.
By Nina Rach, Senior Editor, E&P
Unconventional shale development is a boon for Appalachian operators.
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