Hydraulic Fracturing
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March 05, 2018
As the intensity of completing unconventional wells continues to grow, so too do the demands on fracturing equipment. Longer laterals, rising stage counts, and increased pressures and proppant loadings per stage make hydraulic fracturing an extremely difficult—and consumptive—enterprise, particularly in the challenging wells seen in regions like the Permian basin.
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March 02, 2018
Britain’s natural gas fracing industry is using a cold snap that’s gripped large swathes of Europe this week and laid bare weaknesses in the UK’s energy supply to make its pitch.
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February 09, 2018
The oil prospectors of Oklahoma, it appeared, finally had a solution to their earthquake problem.
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January 26, 2018
The fracing frenzy in Colorado is spurring a tense faceoff between shale drillers in the region and residents seeking a better handle on the dangers in their own backyards after a killer pipeline explosion last year.
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January 25, 2018
Reveal Energy Services has announced the company has validated more than 2,500 hydraulic fracturing stages throughout the U.S. with its pressure-based fracture maps.
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January 14, 2018
Less than two weeks in, 2018 is shaping up to be the year of the fracer.
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May 18, 2017
Shale explorers pushing to expand oil production are struggling to find enough fracing crews after thousands of workers were dismissed during the crude rout.
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May 04, 2017
Weir Oil & Gas has announced that it has taken an important step in transforming the hydraulic fracturing process. Weir’s latest innovation – the Simplified Frac Iron System – will make the frac process significantly simpler, safer and more productive.
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April 17, 2017
As the North American shale revolution has evolved, spawning new technologies and strategies for drilling and completing horizontal wells with longer laterals and increased frac staging, the upstream oil and gas industry is still learning how to construct wells for maximum, long-term production.
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April 06, 2017
Source Energy Services Ltd., Canada’s largest distributor of fracing sand, or proppant, is seeking to raise C$175 million ($130 million) in an initial public offering, reviving the deal after it was postponed last month as oil prices fell, according to people familiar with the sale.
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March 26, 2017
Schlumberger Ltd. and Weatherford International Plc are forming a joint venture aimed at taking on the king of fracing, Halliburton Co.
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March 20, 2017
Source Energy Services Inc., Canada’s largest distributor of fracing sand, has cut the size of its initial public offering to about C$250 million ($187 million) from C$300 million amid a decline in oil prices, according to a document obtained by Bloomberg News.
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March 09, 2017
A pioneer of the U.S. shale revolution wants to take fracing to America’s final frontier. Success could help revive Alaska’s flagging oil fortunes.
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March 07, 2017
BNK Petroleum Inc. has announced that the Chandler 8-6H well in Oklahoma is producing through facilities, while flowing back fracture stimulation fluids, after its fracture stimulation. In addition, the Hartgraves 1-6H well, the second well of the Company’s 2017 drilling program, has been drilled and cased.
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February 28, 2017
STEP Energy Services Ltd., a fracing services provider, plans to raise about C$200 million ($152 million) in the biggest initial public offering (IPO) in the Canadian oil and gas industry in more than two years.
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February 20, 2017
Further to the Company’s announcement on Jan. 11, 2017, President Energy has announced that the workover rig has been mobilized to the first well location, and that operations have already commenced.
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February 16, 2017
Colorado Petroleum Council Executive Director Tracee Bentley strongly slammed a report released today by the University Of Colorado School Of Public Health.
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January 25, 2017
The Oilfield Technology Group (OTG) of Hexion Inc. has announced the release of its Sentinel dust suppressant. This new technology is designed to reduce dust generated from uncoated frac sand.
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January 23, 2017
Halliburton announced today that two of its RapidStart Initiator CT (casing test) sleeves opened after 32 months downhole. Thirty-two months is an industry record for the successful operation of a toe sleeve.
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January 19, 2017
Fairmount Santrol announced today an extension to Propel SSP proppant transport technology, which increases hydraulic fracturing efficiency, for plays where operators face high produced water disposal costs and constraints on freshwater availability.
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January 17, 2017
Owen Oil Tools, a division of Core Laboratories, recently launched its HERO PerFRAC line of shaped charges.
