On my last day as the district engineer for Halliburton, I drove to a rig a bit southeast of Enid, Ok., where ARCO was drilling an unusual well. ARCO wanted to talk with the Halliburton engineer who ...

With Permian Basin oil production climbing toward 6.8 million barrels a day and associated gas output approaching 30 billion ...

State and federal policy and regulatory decisions affecting operators in Texas’ oil and gas fields are made miles away, but the repercussions of distant decisions are acutely felt at home, says Hunter ...

HOUSTON–The United States ranked number one in the world for both crude oil and natural gas production growth last year, and U.S. producers appear to be positioned to defend that title in 2013 and ...

DENVER–In tight oil plays such as the Niobrara, Bakken and Eagle Ford, multiwell pads with four or more high-volume horizontal wells–often producing multiphase liquid and gas streams–require ...

Between 2010 and 2025, the amount of oil an average well in the Lower 48 produces in its first year has jumped from 60,000 barrels to 160,000. And those barrels cost significantly less to access. In ...

As independent producers of natural gas seek to foster markets for their molecules, the bulk of the attention has been focused in only a few areas such as power generation, transportation and possible ...

BOULDER, CO.–Over the past few years, the vast majority of new wells in unconventional formations have been drilled, completed and produced on multiple-well pads. In fact, operators are now designing ...

TULSA–The Granite Wash is a large unconventional play stretching across the southwest Anadarko Basin in the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma. Although it has been developed for decades using vertical ...

Sometimes it is nice to stop and smell the roses. Within the span of a dozen years from the 2004 drilling of the Marcellus discovery well in Washington County, Pa., oil and gas operators ramped up ...

From the panhandle of West Virginia to eastern Ohio, southwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Pennsylvania, independent operators are finding great success drilling longer laterals and becoming more ...