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Six New Dean Wildcats Come With 95% Oil in Northern Midland Basin
SM Energy reported geologic variability in deposition in the new play in southern Dawson County, Texas, but “it's really competitive.”
Exxon Aims to Boost Guyana Gas Production, Explore Export Options
Production capacity in Guyana is expected to surpass 1.7 MMbbl/d, with gross production growing to 1.3 MMbbl/d by 2030.
Matador Touts Cotton Valley ‘Gas Bank’ Reserves as Prices Increase
Matador Resources focuses most of its efforts on the Permian’s Delaware Basin today. But the company still has vast untapped natural gas resources in Louisiana’s prolific Cotton Valley play, where it could look to drill as commodity prices increase.
SM’s First 18 Uinta Wells Outproducing Industry-Wide Midland, South Texas Results
Shallow tests came on with 685 boe/d, 95% oil, while deeper new wells averaged 1,366 boe/d, 92% oil, from two-mile laterals, SM Energy reported.
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Six New Dean Wildcats Come With 95% Oil in Northern Midland Basin
SM Energy reported geologic variability in deposition in the new play in southern Dawson County, Texas, but “it's really competitive.”
Exxon Aims to Boost Guyana Gas Production, Explore Export Options
Production capacity in Guyana is expected to surpass 1.7 MMbbl/d, with gross production growing to 1.3 MMbbl/d by 2030.
Matador Touts Cotton Valley ‘Gas Bank’ Reserves as Prices Increase
Matador Resources focuses most of its efforts on the Permian’s Delaware Basin today. But the company still has vast untapped natural gas resources in Louisiana’s prolific Cotton Valley play, where it could look to drill as commodity prices increase.
SM’s First 18 Uinta Wells Outproducing Industry-Wide Midland, South Texas Results
Shallow tests came on with 685 boe/d, 95% oil, while deeper new wells averaged 1,366 boe/d, 92% oil, from two-mile laterals, SM Energy reported.
Occidental to Up Drilling in Permian Secondary Benches in ‘25
Occidental Petroleum is exploring upside in the Permian’s secondary benches, including deeper Delaware Wolfcamp zones and the Barnett Shale in the Midland Basin.
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.
Element Six, Master Drilling Announce Tunnel Development Partnership
Element Six and Master Drilling will deliver a diamond-enabled solution designed to increase tunneling development speed, reducing costs and minimize the environmental impact of tunnel construction.
GA Drilling Moves Deep Geothermal Tech Closer to Commercialization
The U.S. Department of Energy estimates the next generation of geothermal projects could provide some 90 gigawatts in the U.S. by 2050.
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.
DUCs Fly the Coop: Big Drawdowns from the Midland to Haynesville
The Midland Basin depleted its inventory of excess DUCs the most last year, falling from two months of runway to one during the past year, according to a report by Enverus Intelligence Research.