Dreaming of Electric Frac Fleets?
In 2019, the virtues of switching diesel-powered frac fleets to gas-powered electric have been extolled by companies such as EOG, Shell, Baker Hughes, Halliburton, Evolution and US Well Services. The…
Re-Frac Economics. How much uplift?
This model assesses the production-uplifts and well-level economics of re-fracturing shale wells in the Permian and the Eagle Ford, to improve recovery of previously missed pay. The opportunity is interesting…
New Diverter Regimes for Dendritic Frac Geometries?
…large fractures, then flowed back. The second fluid contains temporary, near-field diverting agents, which will dissolve in situ, usually within 24-72 hours, to expand the fracture network. Similarly, the third…
EOG’s Completions: Plugged-In?
EOG has patented a system to deploy pressure and temperature sensors in its frac plugs, which are then retrieved at the surface, providing low cost data on each frac stage….
Hydraulic Fracturing: where’s the IP?
This data-file tracks 17,000 hydraulic fracturing patents filed by geography, by company, by year, since 2010; but particularly in 2019. $299.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart Frac patents peaked in 2017-18…
LNG in transport: scaling up by scaling down?
…explains, similarly, why LNG is less advantageous in the shale patch than converting rigs and frac spreads to piped gas. Other technologies. Page 17 notes other companies with interesting offerings…
US Shale: No Country for Old Completion Designs
…reviewing 350 technical papers, published by the shale industry in summer-2019. Major improvements are gathering momentum, in shale-EOR, machine learning techniques, digitalization and frac fluid chemistry. $499.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to…
CO2 Intensity of Oilfield Supply Chains
This data-file calculates the CO2 intensity of oilfield supply chains, across ten different resources, as materials are transported to drilling rigs, frac crews, production platforms and well pads. Different resources…
Efficient frontiers: improvements from a CO2 price within oil and gas?
…$100/ton, including implications for oil producers, is presented on pages 10-11. Further efficiency gains, such as preventing methane leakages, adopting more digital solutions, and electrifying frac fleets are presented on…
Energy Technologies and Energy Transition
…container class? (May-2019, 16-pages) US Shale: Winner Takes All? (Apr-2019, 13-pages) An EOG digitization: pumped up? (Jan-2020, online) EOG Completions: plugged in? (Apr-2019, online) New Diverter Regimes for Dendritic Frac…