Hydraulic Fracturing
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October 30, 2019
In previous market slumps, fracers parked unused equipment to await a revival in demand, but this time it’s different: Gear is being stripped down for parts or sold for scrap.
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October 29, 2019
Reveal Energy Services announced the company has validated more than 10,000 hydraulic fracturing stages in the US and Canada with its simple, accurate, affordable pressure-based technology.
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October 24, 2019
C&J Energy Services and Keane Group announced that the shareholders of both companies approved all of the proposals necessary for the closing of the previously announced all-stock merger of equals between Keane and C&J.
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October 23, 2019
The U.S. shale slowdown is weighing on Caterpillar Inc., which is selling fewer of the pumping units used in fracing.
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September 09, 2019
Investors backing closely-held Cuadrilla Resources, which pioneered UK shale gas drilling before becoming mired in red tape, are exploring options including an outright sale of the company.
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August 16, 2019
A change of British government has given the much-maligned fracing industry another opportunity to make out its case for stimulating the controversial technique to tap unconventional natural gas reserves.
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March 07, 2018
Two top oil company executives are taking contrasting views on how fracing is changing the industry’s life cycle.
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March 07, 2018
The Oilfield Technology Group (OTG) of Hexion Inc. today announced the completion of its resin-coated proppant manufacturing plant expansion in Canada.
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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.
