Shale news
Shale Support hires VP of Business Development
Lee Hulllman will serve as vice president of business development assisting in the company’s overall strategic planning and initiatives.
Hexion announces first mobile Permian Basin resin coating plant
Hexion is the first company to develop mobile resin coating technology, offering efficient manufacturing of resin coated proppants on any substrate. Manufacturing can occur in any location that offers optimum logistics to the wellsite, even internationally.
Rystad Energy: Top 33 shale oil producers need extra US$8.3 billion to balance 2018 cash flows at US$60 WTI
These companies represent 61% of US shale oil production in 2018 and were chosen for their focus on oil output.
Reveal Energy Services validates more than 2500 hydraulic fracturing stages
Reveal Energy Services announced today the company has validated more than 2500 hydraulic fracturing stages throughout the US with its simple, accurate, affordable pressure-based fracture maps.
Trump administration move could unlock 65 billion bbls of oil equivalent
On 4 January, the Trump administration proposed to make nearly all offshore areas in the United States available for oil and gas exploration drilling.
Reveal Energy Services delivers first near real time DiverterSCAN technology results
Reveal Energy Services has announced that it has produced and delivered the first near real-time DiverterSCAN technology results, which allowed an operator to identify a diversion design that enhances hydraulic fracturing fluid distribution.
Wood provides construction and project management services to Discovery DJ Services in Niobrara shale
The multi-million dollar project includes the recently completed project management, fabrication and construction of approximately 60 miles of 12 in. and 8 in. pipeline for the gathering system.
Statoil oil discovery in Verbier sidetrack
Statoil and partners have made an oil discovery in the Verbier sidetrack well in the outer Moray Firth on the UK Continental Shelf.
Shale Support partners with Tidewater Logistics for increased access to Marcellus/Utica shale
The agreement increases Shale Support’s access into the Ohio, West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania markets, providing storage while allowing it to be one of the lowest cost providers of frac sand to the region.
Shale producers drop rigs and add hedges
Despite a slowdown in the number of rigs being added in the shale basins, output targets will be met or exceeded as producers are adding to their hedged positions, according to ESAI Energy’s recently released North America Watch.