Eagle Ford
Article
January 2022
Shaky ground: Railroad Commission takes much-needed stand on oil field earthquakes
News
January 14, 2022
The Eagle Ford shale in South Texas, long overlooked compared to its larger cousin the Permian basin, saw its biggest one-week jump in drilling activity in more than two years as explorers look for growth beyond the world’s biggest shale patch.
Article
August 2021
“Improving fundamentals” aside, production dips below Covid-riddled 2020
Article
April 2021
Signs of life emerge from the Eagle Ford
Article
September 2020
The catastrophic demand decline initiated by coronavirus lockdowns significantly damaged the U.S. oil industry, with oversupply, historically low storage capacity, and low prices. Operators responded by stacking rigs and shutting-in production.
Article
August 2020
“Cheap drilling,” but very few takers
Article
May 2020
The Texas Alliance of Energy Producers held a virtual meeting on May 20 to provide its members, and invited guests, an update on problem issues that the association is working to solve.
Article
April 2020
Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) Chairman Wayne Christian’s sudden April 29 declaration against prorationing appears to run counter to what a majority of Texas E&P professionals would like the agency to do on May 5, according to results of a new World Oil survey.
News
December 02, 2019
At current oil prices, “what you cannot do is harvest cash and grow,” said Raoul LeBlanc, a Houston-based analyst at IHS Markit. “There’s an inflection point coming here because production growth is going to slow down massively.”
Article
August 2019
Two federally-funded projects in the Bakken and Eagle Ford shales strive to improve recovery efficiency in unconventional plays while accelerating their development and generating high-quality data.
Article
August 2019
The caliche roads cutting through the blackbrush and mesquite of the South Texas brush country are a bit less congested of late, as Eagle Ford drilling and completion activity dips in what is ranked among the most profitable of the unconventional plays.
Article
February 2019
In an exclusive interview with World Oil Editor-in-Chief Kurt Abraham, ConocoPhillips Chief Technology Officer Greg Leveille discusses the technical issues facing global E&P, particularly as relates to the many U.S. unconventional plays
Article
February 2019
A novel rotary steerable system addresses maintenance, downhole motors, and hole geometry in a new light.
Article
January 2019
A case study performed in the Eagle Ford has proven that tunable technology can help achieve greater efficiency gains in developing unconventional reservoirs.
Article
January 2019
Hits and misses
Article
July 2018
The Eagle Ford is enjoying a comeuppance, of sorts. Once left to pick up Permian basin leftovers, the unconventional elder has emerged as a veritable hedge against the bottleneck-induced price differentials of its high-flying neighbor to the immediate west.
Article
June 2018
Predictive proxy model uses data analytics, reservoir characterization to streamline completion optimization
Article
May 2018
The ascension of dual-activity rig floors, which enable different operations to be conducted simultaneously in parallel, is credited with helping reduce offshore well delivery time.
Article
April 2018
An example of a cooperative relationship was demonstrated when Ulterra, a producer of PDC drill bits, and a large independent E&P company—operating in the Eagle Ford shale—combined forces to examine ways to improve performance.
Article
March 2018
Recycling produced water cuts disposal costs
Article
August 2017
Making hay in a temperamental market
