Hydraulic fracturing or fracking is an essential technique in the oil and gas industry, used to extract natural gas and oil from deep underground reservoirs. Traditionally, the process has involved a ...

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Over the past decade, the number of horizontal wells in the United States has risen from approximately 110,000 to over 200,000 and given the country’s concerted efforts to achieve energy ...

Trimulfracs are an extension of simultaneous fracturing treatments (simulfracs) to maximize capital efficiency. Trimulfracs keep pace with four to five drilling rigs and create greater consistency in ...

Chevron Corporation’s CVX subsidiary, Chevron U.S.A. Inc., in strategic partnership with Halliburton Company HAL, a Houston, TX-based oil and gas equipment and services firm, has unveiled a ...

Extending stage length in unconventional wells can yield considerable cost savings, but doing so may negatively affect distribution of fracture treatment among perforation clusters. Limited-entry ...

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The La Crosse Center is playing host to the Frac Sand Insider conference which began Tuesday. Frac sand mining is the mining of sand that is used in the fracking process to get oil and natural gas out ...