EVERGREEN CO.–Producers continue to shift significant budget dollars to liquids-rich plays, including high-Btu gas and crude/condensate production with high-Btu associated gas. The result is growing ...

Stephen Morse leads the global oil and gas practice for leadership analysis and search firm Russell Reynolds Associates. Based in Houston, he specializes in serving clients in the oil and gas, power ...

DES PLAINES, IL.–The Hydraulic Fracture Test Site (HFTS) is a field-based hydraulic fracturing research experiment in the eastern part of the Midland Basin between the Central Basin Platform and ...

ST. LOUIS–The market for oil country tubular goods has improved over the past year, and unlike the overall U.S. economy, continues to display a pattern of steady growth. This growth has been driven by ...

IRVING, TX.–Condensate has been coming in from gathering systems for years and has been handled in different ways. However, the industry’s focus on liquids-rich resource plays has elevated the focus ...

WASHINGTON–U.S. crude oil production has risen sharply in recent years, with much of the increased output moving to market by rail. In 2008, U.S. Class I railroads originated 9,500 carloads of crude ...

As crude oil prices continue to climb, South Texas operators are zeroing in on new horizons in the Eagle Ford Shale and revisiting a formation once thought to be an industry classic: the Austin Chalk.

HOUSTON–Well bore ballooning or breathing during drilling has become a greater challenge in horizontal resource plays. Ballooning is a formation anomaly whereby pumped fluids’ circulating friction ...

Technology integration plays a significant role in identifying the key drivers of production and optimizing well performance. Integrated workflows are being used in the Midland Basin to help operators ...

HOUSTON–Operators have relied on high-intensity completion designs that include a combination of high fluid and proppant volumes, increased perforation cluster density, and smaller mesh-size proppants ...

REDMOND, WA.–Safe, efficient, and profitable development of shale natural gas resources depends on achieving a clear understanding of the role of natural fractures in shale gas production. Natural ...

MARK STEVENS is director of communications and application development at Oceaneering Global Data Solutions in Houston. He joined the company in 1998, and his experience includes working with offshore ...