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Inside Prairie’s 11-Well Program in the D-J
Prairie Operating Co.’s 11-well program in the Denver-Julesburg Basin is drilling horizontal 2-milers with a Precision Drilling rig.
Petrobras to Deploy Baker Hughes Completion Technology Offshore Brazil
Baker Hughes will be combining its completions technologies with conventional upper and lower completions solutions at Petrobras’ offshore developments.
Expand Lands 5.6-Miler in Appalachia in Five Days With One Bit Run
Expand Energy reported its Shannon Fields OHI #3H in northern West Virginia was drilled with just one bit run in some 30,000 ft.
Judgment Call: Ranking the Haynesville Shale’s Top E&P Producers
Companies such as Comstock Resources and Expand Energy topped rankings, based on the greatest productivity per lateral foot and other metrics— and depending on who did the scoring.
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Inside Prairie’s 11-Well Program in the D-J
Prairie Operating Co.’s 11-well program in the Denver-Julesburg Basin is drilling horizontal 2-milers with a Precision Drilling rig.
Petrobras to Deploy Baker Hughes Completion Technology Offshore Brazil
Baker Hughes will be combining its completions technologies with conventional upper and lower completions solutions at Petrobras’ offshore developments.
Expand Lands 5.6-Miler in Appalachia in Five Days With One Bit Run
Expand Energy reported its Shannon Fields OHI #3H in northern West Virginia was drilled with just one bit run in some 30,000 ft.
Judgment Call: Ranking the Haynesville Shale’s Top E&P Producers
Companies such as Comstock Resources and Expand Energy topped rankings, based on the greatest productivity per lateral foot and other metrics— and depending on who did the scoring.
Coterra to Rig Back up in Marcellus to Arrest Decline
“This increase in activity is from zero to ‘some’ activity. I wouldn't characterize this as ‘leaning into’ a gas market,” Shane Young, Coterra Energy’s CFO, told investors.
Comstock Doubling Rigs as Western Haynesville Mega-Wells’ Cost Falls to $27MM
Operator Comstock Resources is ramping to four rigs in its half-million-net-acre, deep-gas play north of Houston where its wells IP as much as 40 MMcf/d. The oldest one has produced 18.4 Bcf in its first 33 months.
PrePad Tosses Spreadsheets for Drilling Completions Simulation Models
Startup PrePad’s discrete-event simulation model condenses the dozens of variables in a drilling operation to optimize the economics of drilling and completions. Big names such as Devon Energy, Chevron Technology Ventures and Coterra Energy have taken notice.
BP’s Eagle Ford Refracs Delivering EUR Uplift, ‘Triple-Digit’ Returns
BP’s shale segment, BPX Energy, is seeing EUR uplifts from Eagle Ford refracs “we didn’t really predict in shale,” CEO Murray Auchincloss told investors in fourth-quarter earnings.
Cummins, Liberty Energy to Deploy New Engine for Fracking Platform This Year
Liberty Energy Inc. and Cummins Inc. are deploying the natural gas large displacement engine developed in a partnership formed in 2024.
Shale Outlook Uinta: Horizontal Boom to Continue in 2025
After two large-scale transactions by SM Energy and Ovintiv, the Uinta Basin is ready for development—and stacked pay exploration.