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….
New Diverter Regimes for Dendritic Frac Geometries?
…fluid contains temporary, far-field diverting agents. The purpose of this completion design is to create dendritic fracture geometries. The diverting agents prevent fracturing fluids from leaking into the formation, so…
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…
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…
Wet sand: what impacts on shale breakevens and CO2?
…efficiency and lower the CO2 intensity of oil and gas production. This note profiles the exciting new prospect of ‘wet sand’ for hydraulic fracturing in shale plays. It can reduce…
The cutting edge of shale technology?
…the most productivity-enhancing set of technical papers of any year in the database. Recent areas of innovation include completion design, fracturing fluids, EORand machine learning. We also break down the…
CO2 intensity of shale: breakdown by category?
…shale well, specifically a Permian shale oil well, looking line by line, across the CO2 intensity of concrete and steel, drilling, hydraulic fracturing, the supply chains bringing in sand, water…
Energy transition technologies: the pace of progress?
…progress within sub-industries; for example, more supercapacitor patents were filed in 2019 than nuclear patents; while hydraulic fracturing patents remain the most intense focus area within conventional oil and gas….
Enhanced geothermal: technology challenges?
…heat and power, without geological/exploration risk. The closed loop system does not use hydraulic fracturing, does not exchange fluids with the formation, and thus does not suffer a risk of…