Tales of reaching peak oil in the nation’s most prolific basins have ushered in a not-bloody-likely response by U.S. shale producers deploying new recovery methods, technologies, and chemical “cocktails” to enhance production from their existing rock vs finding new. ...
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In a 2017 Forbes article, writer Robert Rapier escorted the magazine’s audience on a fascinating tour of “How the Shale Boom Turned the World Upside Down”. If you recall, the nation’s oil and gas production had long ago peaked with conventional drilling and by 2005, we were in a full-blown energy crisis highly dependent on Venezuela and Saudi Arabia oil imports. And natural gas? Well, the only solution here with certainty according to one energy investor was “to pray.” ...
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With its first discovery as a major petroleum site near the La., Gulf in 1921, the Haynesville formation would take some 80 years later to land a place in natural gas history. ...
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The expression “you find oil where you found oil” has never been more relevant than what’s at play now in the Williston Basin. ...
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The name of the book is Game Changer: Our Fifty-Year Mission to Secure America’s Energy Independence. The author, a rags-to-riches phenom and pioneer of the shale revolution who’s made an art out of unlocking tight rock with a combination of fracking and horizontal drilling. ...
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Reese Energy Consulting today is following the latest from Okla. City-based Flywheel Energy, which is betting its beans and cornbread on the Fayetteville Shale—a play on the Ark., side of the dry gas Arkoma Basin shared with Okla. ...
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