OKLAHOMA CITY–From a spatial perspective, optimizing the economic placement of wells can be a daunting challenge in unconventional reservoirs with multiple stacked pays. Operators are finding it ...

PARKERSBURG, W.V.– Daily footage has become a key metric in quantifying Northeast drilling efficiency, and the pace of the improvement has been phenomenal. Six or seven years ago, drilling 2,500 feet ...

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 ...

HOUSTON–With the dog days of summer in full run, global energy markets continue to experience an unusual set of business conditions. On the one hand is an ultratight supply and demand balance, which ...

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, ...

EVERGREEN CO.–Producers continue to shift significant budget dollars to liquids-rich plays, including high-Btu gas and crude/condensate production with high-Btu associated gas. The result is growing ...

Horizontal drilling and multistage hydraulic fracturing have unlocked vast quantities of natural gas in shale reservoirs. The lessons learned are being modified to achieve the same success in a ...

TOMBALL, TX.–U.S. producers of all sizes responded to the economic shutdown and sub-breakeven commodity prices by dramatically cutting back budgets for drilling and completing new wells, and by ...

As crude oil prices continue to climb, South Texas operators are zeroing in on new horizons in the Eagle Ford Shale and revisiting a formation once thought to be an industry classic: the Austin Chalk.

DENVER–The law doesn’t stop at the county line and geology doesn’t change according to city limits. The same formations that hold oil and gas accumulations in the subsurface far beneath pastures, corn ...

DENVER–In tight oil plays such as the Niobrara, Bakken and Eagle Ford, multiwell pads with four or more high-volume horizontal wells–often producing multiphase liquid and gas streams–require ...

HOUSTON–Making new hole as long as possible with no unexpected interruptions has been the mantra of operators since Colonel Drake decided that drilling an oil well in Titusville, Pa., seemed like a ...