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Produced Water Treatment
Whether offshore or onshore, oil and gas are often found in areas where there is a shortage of fresh water. The use of fresh water for drilling and fracking fluids only aggravates the shortage. Further, oil and gas are typically produced with formation brine, and fracking results in flowback water, both of which need treatment… Read More
Experimental Frack
The Gas Technology Institute (GTI) and BHP Billiton Petroleum are teaming up to drill a Hydraulic Fracture Test Site 2 (HFTS2) well in Reeves County, Texas, according to “World Oil”. The well is within the Delaware Basin of the Permian area and will target the Wolfcamp formation. The test will take place over a 12… Read More
Chesapeake’s “Propageddon”
Chesapeake Energy Corp. recently set a new record by pumping more than 25,000 tons of sand down a well in North Lousiana’s Haynesville shale, according to “World Oil”. This record volume of sand was used in a frac job on the company’s Black 2&11-15-11 1H gas well with a 9,764 foot lateral leg. Jason Pigott,… Read More
Microbes to the Rescue
From drilling to refining, chemistry has long played a pivotal role in the oil and gas industry. Now, according to an article in “Rigzone”, its sister science, biology, appears poised to play a major part as well. Advances in genetic engineering, genome sequencing, and imaging have resulted in major advances in a number of areas. … Read More
Sand’s Surge
Amid the sea of economic devastation wrought by the crude oil price collapse, there is one small island of prosperity. Fittingly, it is sand. “Rigzone” reports that apparently you can’t pour too much of the stuff down hole when fracking shale reservoirs. Operators keep trying to define the limit as to how much is too… Read More
