Stimulation techniques are used to encourage production to flow from the reservoir rocks. Hydrocarbons are located in the spaces between pores of reservoir rock. Production is achieved when these pore ...

Halliburton Company HAL announced the implementation of the first electric grid-powered fracturing operation of the energy industry for Cimarex Energy Co. XEC. Halliburton has been conducting the ...

While advances such as high-spec drilling rigs and better subsurface evaluation tools have decreased well costs, operators have focused much of their recent effort on refining their completions. In ...

WILLISTON, N.D. -- Monte Besler's job can be summed up in his license plate: FRACN8R. The Williston engineer who specializes in hydraulic fracturing once earned that nickname from a co-worker in the ...

Visualize a nationwide trove of energy locked within the pores of rock as dense as a concrete sidewalk, with its only avenue of escape being tiny channels thinner than a human hair. You're looking at ...