Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. This article is more than 3 years old. Pumping water mixed ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. Massive frac-pumping equipment in a modern Marcellus gas ...

Hydrajet fracturing, which can place multiple propped hydraulic fractures in precise locations, effectively stimulated two underperforming horizontal openhole gas wells in the low-permeability Cardium ...

Fracking essential for U.S. energy security as AI data centers increase power demand, with nine million barrels daily from ...

A casing-conveyed perforating and integral flapper valve system proved effective in developing stacked pay Beluga sands in the Kenai gas field in Alaska's Cook inlet. This well completion method ...

Hydraulic fracturing, a reservoir stimulation process that involves pumping fluid into a well to break-up sand and rock formations, has become a vital method for maintaining and improving oil and gas ...

James Gillin was at his home in the hamlet of New Freeport when a neighbor came looking for him. “He came down because he knows I work for the gas company. And he found a geyser in his yard,” Gillin ...

HOLDENVILLE, Okla. — It’s no longer just environmentalists who suspect hydraulic fracturing is contaminating groundwater. Oil companies here in Oklahoma — ones that produce from older vertical wells — ...

At-a-Glance: Solid expandable tubulars (SET) are run smaller and plastically expanded in-situ with a swage to restore or create a near-monobore inside existing casing or open hole. In fracturing, they ...