Canadian Tight Gas & Oil

Horizontal drilling and multi-stage fracturing have remade Alberta’s Cardium play, and set it on a new growth trajectory.

What was once a depleting play with its glory days long faded has suddenly resurrected itself as a compelling and growing story in the vanguard of North America’s unconventional oil revolution.

There is no doubt that unconventional resources are changing the game in North America, with some expecting the U.S. to be self-sufficient in oil in a decade. Since 2008, there has been an eight-fold increase in U.S. gas production and a five-fold increase in oil production.