Hydraulic Fracturing
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July 24, 2018
Cuadrilla has today received final hydraulic fracture consent from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) for its first horizontal shale gas exploration well at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire.
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July 23, 2018
Hi-Crush has entered into an agreement to acquire FB Industries, a manufacturer of silo-based frac sand management systems for $60 million.
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July 23, 2018
Reveal Energy is enhancing IMAGE Frac pressure-based fracture maps with a new platform that uses parallel processing with algorithms to determine fracture geometry for large, complex pad operations in multiple zones.
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July 17, 2018
Superior Silica Sands LLC, a subsidiary of Emerge Energy Services LP, has announced that it has signed an agreement with a third-party logistics provider, Torq Energy Logistics Ltd., to open a new frac sand terminal in Buick, British Columbia.
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July 10, 2018
Standing high on top of a windswept dune in the West Texas plains, Greg Edwards stares out into a vast ocean of sand.
News
June 04, 2018
Texas is facing a burning question that’s pitting the state’s economy against its environment, and oil drillers against each other.
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May 08, 2018
Oil producers may be getting in their own way in the race to pump crude from the fertile Permian basin.
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April 25, 2018
The world’s biggest oilfield service companies have a message for investors: There’s a payoff for patience.
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April 19, 2018
Rystad said that pumping horsepower and sand supply are both tight in certain regions of the U.S. However, pumping horsepower and sand supply will see significant additions in the second half of 2018.
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April 17, 2018
Australia’s Northern Territory has ended its ban on hydraulic fracturing, boosting the prospects for energy explorers operating in some of the country’s largest petroleum resources.
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April 10, 2018
GEODynamics has introduced a new and evolutionary technology in composite frac plug systems. Called the EVOLV+FracTrapTM Zone Isolation System, it provides both ball retrieval and composite plug technology in one tool that delivers risk-free, ball-on-seat, plug-and-perf isolation solutions to operators.
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March 19, 2018
BNK Petroleum Inc. has announced that the Company has finished the fracture stimulation of the Glenn 16-2H well in the Company’s Tishomingo field, in the SCOOP area of Oklahoma.
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March 08, 2018
A major report from Energent, part of Westwood Global Energy Group, the energy market research consultancy, predicts dramatic changes to the frac sand supply chain to the Permian basin, the world’s most important oil growth region.
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March 07, 2018
America’s development of hydraulic fracturing technology has enabled a new wave of oil and gas abundance in the U.S., and according to U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, the country must focus on maximizing exports for this energy, as well as its technologies.
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March 07, 2018
Two top oil company executives are taking contrasting views on how fracing is changing the industry’s life cycle.
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March 07, 2018
The Oilfield Technology Group (OTG) of Hexion Inc. today announced the completion of its resin-coated proppant manufacturing plant expansion in Canada.
News
March 05, 2018
As the intensity of completing unconventional wells continues to grow, so too do the demands on fracturing equipment. Longer laterals, rising stage counts, and increased pressures and proppant loadings per stage make hydraulic fracturing an extremely difficult—and consumptive—enterprise, particularly in the challenging wells seen in regions like the Permian basin.
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March 02, 2018
Britain’s natural gas fracing industry is using a cold snap that’s gripped large swathes of Europe this week and laid bare weaknesses in the UK’s energy supply to make its pitch.
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February 2018
All over the map
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February 09, 2018
The oil prospectors of Oklahoma, it appeared, finally had a solution to their earthquake problem.
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January 26, 2018
The fracing frenzy in Colorado is spurring a tense faceoff between shale drillers in the region and residents seeking a better handle on the dangers in their own backyards after a killer pipeline explosion last year.
