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 MAY 2012

Shale Tech: Bakken/Three Forks Infrastructure, takeaway woes only threats to high activity

Jim Redden

Apart from an implausible oil price collapse, the only potential sidetracks to the continuation of unbridled exploration and production in the Bakken/Three Forks shale plays are an overwhelmed infrastructure and ever-growing logjams in moving production from fields to refineries.


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Jim Redden

Drilling advances

Jim Redden

Drillers take “waste not, want not” to heart

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    Casing Table

    World Oil's casing reference tables provide information on premium casing connection dimensions, available steel grades and minimum join tension strengths.

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    Drill Bit Classifier

    Comprehensive listing of major manufacturer's drilling bits to aid drilling supervisors and engineers in field selection. Divided into six formation types from soft/sticky to extremely hard, tables show name, IADC code, size and performance of each firm's offering.

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    Fluids Table

    Exclusive annual listing shows trade names, generic descriptions, recommended usage and suppliers of more than 2,500 fluid system additives for drilling, completions and workovers.

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    Tubing Reference Table

    World Oil's updated tables for pipe sizes to 5-in. OD or production-tubing-specific couplings provide information on premium connection dimensions, available steel grades and minimum joint tension strengths.