In unconventional plays, only a third of the fractures created during hydraulic fracturing contain proppant. This striking observation, which comes from overcoring and numerical modeling, helps ...

TULSA–One of the defining well construction trends in unconventional resource plays is ever-increasing horizontal lengths to increase recovery efficiency. Advances in drilling technology are ...

HOUSTON–Growing numbers of oil and gas companies are mandating as a best practice using natural gas to power drilling rigs, hydraulic fracturing fleets and other well site equipment. And while ...

With Permian Basin oil production climbing toward 6.8 million barrels a day and associated gas output approaching 30 billion ...

State and federal policy and regulatory decisions affecting operators in Texas’ oil and gas fields are made miles away, but the repercussions of distant decisions are acutely felt at home, says Hunter ...

Between 2010 and 2025, the amount of oil an average well in the Lower 48 produces in its first year has jumped from 60,000 barrels to 160,000. And those barrels cost significantly less to access. In ...

PLANO, TX.–Carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery has been utilized safely and securely since 1974, but is experiencing a renaissance in the national policy debate over industrial carbon capture, ...

The Fischer-Tropsch reactors used in smaller scale gas-to-liquids plants may be configured to efficiently produce 1,500-15,000 barrels a day of liquid fuels, consuming 15,000-150,000 MMBtu of natural ...

On my last day as the district engineer for Halliburton, I drove to a rig a bit southeast of Enid, Ok., where ARCO was drilling an unusual well. ARCO wanted to talk with the Halliburton engineer who ...

HOUSTON–Utilizing a “design one, build two (or more)” production facilities approach, Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and its partners achieved first oil on a newly installed truss spar at the deepwater Gulf ...

Vapor recovery units can increase well site revenue while reducing emissions, but to deploy them economically, operators must overcome several challenges.