Completions
Digital Oilfield , Completions
Tech Trends (Week of Aug. 9, 2021)
This weekly section highlights the latest upstream technologies designed to improve efficiencies.
Health, Safety & Environment , Completions
Completions Advances: Protecting Personnel and Equipment in the Continually Evolving Oil Field
As companies strive to reduce completion times and well costs, new techniques such as simul-frac may be explored. Protecting people and equipment is paramount, and smart emergency nitrogen systems can safeguard both.
Completions , Well Stimulation
Hydraulic Fracturing: Catching up on FDIs
The industry continues its work on identifying and understanding fracture-driven interactions.
Public Capital , Shale Plays , Completions , Mergers
NexTier to Acquire Leading Permian Pressure Pumper Alamo in $268 Million Deal
NexTier Oilfield Solutions expects the addition of Alamo Pressure Pumping’s focus on the Midland Basin to establish NexTier as a leading completions provider in the Permian Basin.
Shale Plays , Completions
Academia and Industry Embrace Nuance in Fracturing
Improving operational efficiencies in hydraulic fracturing by moving to subtle understanding of fissures and proppant.
Shale Plays , Completions
Halliburton And VoltaGrid Electric Solution Reduces Emissions for Chesapeake Energy
Halliburton’s all-electric fracturing spread combined with VoltaGrid’s power generation system reduced emissions for Chesapeake by 32%.
Exploration & Production , Shale Plays , Completions , Pressure Pumping , Well Stimulation
Shale Producers Talk Development Plans, ESG and Completion Designs
Leaders from Devon, Pioneer, Chevron and ConocoPhillips discuss the latest in unconventional development and how recent acquisitions have enabled greater efficiencies.
Energy Transition , Drilling , Digital Oilfield , Completions
Tech Trends (Week of Aug. 2, 2021)
This weekly section highlights the latest upstream technologies designed to improve efficiencies.
Shale Plays , Completions , Pressure Pumping
Hydraulic Fracturing Pressure Pumping Roundtable: Powering Through
Pressure pumpers that survived a rough 2020 are in recovery mode, some say, as conditions improve with a continued efficiency drive toward a lower carbon world.
Deepwater , Completions
Wireline-deployed Milling Services Enlarge a Tubing Hanger in Deepwater Congo
A case study details how a company enlarged a hardened tubing hanger while also preserving its mechanical integrity.