Stimulation techniques are used to encourage production to flow from the reservoir rocks. Hydrocarbons are located in the spaces between pores of reservoir rock. Production is achieved when these pore ...

Whiting Petroleum Corp. plans to use 24-stages for hydraulically fracture its Ogden 11 TFH horizontal well, completed in the Three Forks reservoir in the Sanish field, Mountrail County, ND. HOUSTON, ...

Insufficient distance between wellbores caused a vertical oil well to leak fluids after hydraulic fracturing of a nearby horizontal well last January in Red Deer County, Alta., an investigation by the ...

While advances such as high-spec drilling rigs and better subsurface evaluation tools have decreased well costs, operators have focused much of their recent effort on refining their completions. In ...

WILLISTON, N.D. -- Monte Besler's job can be summed up in his license plate: FRACN8R. The Williston engineer who specializes in hydraulic fracturing once earned that nickname from a co-worker in the ...

Sometime between the day Dennis Egan got elected mayor of Red Wing in November and last week, a group of frac sand companies thought it might be a good idea to hire Egan as their face and lobbyist at ...

The last decade of oil and gas exploration in the United States has been characterized by a sharp increase in the amount of oil and gas acquired from low-permeability shale formations. These ...

Long before sunrise, Molly Sizer starts her day in West Texas as a professional frac sand hauler. She gets dressed, drives her Peterbilt truck to one of the dozens of frac mines around the Permian ...

Job creation goes beyond the sites where sand is handled. Local truck drivers from CD Corp. haul sand from locations in Arcadia, Wis., and the Biesanz Stone Quarry in Winona to Modern Transport and ...

Halliburton Company HAL announced the implementation of the first electric grid-powered fracturing operation of the energy industry for Cimarex Energy Co. XEC. Halliburton has been conducting the ...