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Dialing Oilfield Days Sales Outstanding Down to Zero and Freeing Up Cash for Growth 

Enverus

The sun rises on a wellsite in North Dakota where hydraulic fracturing operations have been running through the night. A line of water-hauling trucks idles nearby, keeping a steady supply flowing downhole. Handwritten field tickets for those loads exchange hands, only to get stuffed in a truck door or tossed onto a dashboard.

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Revolutionizing Well Spacing Optimization: Advanced Analytics Reveal Formation-Specific Strategies for Maximum Recovery

Novi

This blog post is based on the technical paper “Optimizing Well Spacing to Maximize Horizontal Well Performance and Recovery”, co-authored by Ahmed Alzahabi, Alexander Trindade, Ahmed Kamel, and Kiran Sathaye. The paper was presented at URTeC 2025. Download the full paper here.

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Exposing Critical Data Reliability Issues: How Public Water Production Records Fail to Capture Reality in Tight Oil Wells

Novi

This blog post is based on the technical paper “The Reliability of Public Water Production Data for Tight Oil Wells”, co-authored by Frank Male¹˒², Ian Duncan², and Kiran Sathaye. These findings challenge the validity of numerous published forecasts and highlight the urgent need for improved data collection and reporting standards.

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Texas Court Decides Who Owns Produced Water from Hydraulic Fracturing in Texas

Texas Oil & Gas Attorney

COG Operating LLC , was faced with the issue of who owns the water produced by a hydraulic fracturing operation: the oil and gas company operating the well or the surface owner and the company the surface owner leased its water rights to? The El Paso Court of Appeals , in the recent case of Cactus Water Services LLC v.

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An Ancient Hazard in a 21st Century Workplace: The Power of Partnerships and Collaboration Investigating Respirable Crystalline Silica in Hydraulic Fracturing

NIOSH Science: Oil & Gas

In 2013, NIOSH researchers published exposure assessment results for respirable crystalline silica in oil and gas extraction (OGE) workers performing hydraulic fracturing.

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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Weighs in on Hydraulic Fracturing and Subsurface Trespass

The Energy Law

In January of this year, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania tackled an issue that has been confronted by few other courts—whether the rule of capture precludes a claim for subsurface trespass due to hydraulic fracturing. [1] Southwestern operated several wells on the leased tract, several of which were hydraulically fractured.

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Pictures of You - Regional Balances Tell the Tale of the U.S. Crude Oil Market

RBN Energy

Increasing production unlocked through horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have pushed up the nations overall supply without an equal change in refining capacity, resulting in significant changes in regional balances. Over the past 15 years, the U.S.s