The company has located equipment at a staging area, where the treatment configuration has been completely wet tested.

Ceramic proppant is widely acknowledged to have greater strength and thermal stability, to have more uniform size and shape, and to yield higher conductivity than sand-based products.

The S2 has been used for oil extraction in shale plays in Colorado's Niobara formation in the DJ basin and the Bakken formation in North Dakota and Montana.

The combination of the Mobile Chemical Treatment and Mobile DAF systems gives the ITS the capability to treat 900 gallons of flow back water per minute from fracing operations.

The tested waters had no detectable levels of hydrogen sulfide and acceptable levels of sulfates, iron and other contaminants required to make the reclaimed water meet the rigid specifications for drilling and fracing purposes.

OilPlus proppant is specifically designed for fracturing treatments in oil and liquid-rich reservoirs.

This bit was run over 72 hours yielding an overall ROP of 133 ft/hr, a full 45 percent faster than the offset average.

A new development in oil and gas fracing could deliver lower costs and higher recoveries at First Titan Corp.'s new well in Logan County, Okla.--meaning higher potential profits for the emerging energy company.

Insight Earth 1.7 provides integral features and tools to support TerraSpark's customized Shale Resource Play Toolkits for various major shale regions in North America, including the Bakken, the Niobrara, the Eagle Ford and others.

The MZST process can be particularly beneficial for hydraulic fracturing operations in tight gas, shale gas and coal bed methane wells that target multiple reservoir zones.

The State Journal, West Virginia’s business newspaper, released an article stating that GE Energy and ExxonMobil have formed an alliance with Penn State University in order to create industry best practices standards for shale gas development.

The program is intended to raise awareness to the public about natural gas development technologies and to educate communities on safe practices.

Halliburton and PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd  have signed a Framework Agreement for the evaluation and development of global shale resources.

TGS has commenced acquisition of the Bucklin multi-client 3D onshore survey in the United States. The newest onshore project is 280 mi2 (725 km2) in size and is located in Ford and Kiowa Counties in Southern Kansas.

Capstone Turbine Corporation, the world's leading clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, announced it received a follow-on order for 31 C65 microturbines from a large oil & gas producer in the Eagle Ford shale play already operating a fleet of 71 C65 units.