Enhanced completions and closer well spacing make for the new buzz word: well intensity. Whatever you call it, producers and their service partners are achieving better well results by the day with longer laterals, more sand and closer frack clusters. These experts take a closer look at what works and what they’d like to see ahead in the Rockies shale plays:
- Mark Pearson, president of Liberty Resources LLC;
- Paul Favret, CEO of Resource Energy Partners LLC;
- Kumar Ramurthy, technology manager for the Rockies region at Halliburton Co.; and
- Amanda Seholm, director of geoscience and petroleum engineering for the North America land division at Baker Hughes Inc.
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