Granite Wash Playbook

Operators are applying both horizontal and vertical wells to produce reserves from this longtime target that occupies a swath 160 miles long and 30 miles wide in the Texas Panhandle and western Oklahoma. The Granite Wash is an extraordinary reservoir, prone to extreme variations in thickness, grain size, pore-size distribution, number of prospective intervals and gas/oil ratio. Economic rates are achieved by multistage, slickwater fracture treatments and close attention to costs.

Chapters: Play overviews -- Key Players: Company profiles section -- Key Technologies, horizontal and vertical drilling, emphasis on cost-control -- Midstream Activities and Joint Ventures -- Economics -- Reference Section.