The U.S. produced more oil in 2023 than has ever been produced in any year by any country, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Big Oil has become more productive as horizontal ...
Unconventional drilling changed the economics of oil and gas development. It also changed the leases. Where once a simple ...
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Fracking makes the Texas oil and gas industry possible; it may also be harming the state
Horizontal drilling and fracking as a combined technique grew in popularity in part because it was shown to increase the ...
Horizontal drilling isn't new. Such wells have been drilled for the better part of a century. But combining it with hydraulic fracturing to produce gas and oil from shale is a far more recent ...
When someone is new to the oil industry, they may picture fields full of rigs, spurts of black coming out of the ground, and lots of old machinery. However, what they may not consider is the two ...
Efficient drilling in shale reservoirs requires detailed 3-dimensional (3D) horizontal well trajectories. An orthogonal-arc trajectory (OAT) method assumes a single constant curvature in the curved ...
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