The practice of hydraulic fracturing has rightly received a lot of the credit for allowing the U.S. to boost its oil production in recent years by as much as 60%. The U.S. is now producing more oil ...

Long before sunrise, Molly Sizer starts her day in West Texas as a professional frac sand hauler. She gets dressed, drives her Peterbilt truck to one of the dozens of frac mines around the Permian ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. To many, it’s still a surprise just how big a modern frac ...

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 ...

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 ...

The last decade of oil and gas exploration in the United States has been characterized by a sharp increase in the amount of oil and gas acquired from low-permeability shale formations. These ...