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Simultaneous Shale Well Completions Per Location Double in 10 Years

Marcellus Drilling News

Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that the average number of wells completed simultaneously (simul-frac’d) at the same location in the Lower 48 states has more than doubled, increasing from 1.5 By completing (fracking) multiple wells at once rather than sequentially, operators. wells in June 2024.

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Prairie Operating Co. begins completion of the Opal Coalbank Pad, acquired from Bayswater

Oil & Gas 360º

(Nasdaq: PROP) (the Company or Prairie) an independent energy company engaged in the development and acquisition of oil and natural gas resources in the Denver-Julesburg (DJ) Basin today announced it is beginning completions of nine previously drilled but uncompleted (DUC) wells acquired in the recent Bayswater transaction.

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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?

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EIA: well completions per location more than double in Lower 48 US states as technology advances

Oilfield Technology

The increasing number of simultaneous completions reflects significant technological advances in hydraulic fracturing operations, particularly in equipment capabilities and operational strategies.

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Louisiana’s New Twenty-Day Deadline for Hydraulic Fracturing Reporting Requirements

The Energy Law

Dicharry On July 20, 2013, the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources amended its reporting and disclosure requirements for hydraulic fracturing stimulation operations. By Sarah Y. 1824 (July 20, 2013). Before the amendment, the regulation did not specify a reporting deadline.

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Will Refracking Come to the Marcellus/Utica Region?

Marcellus Drilling News

For at least a decade, MDN has brought you stories about refracs, also called re-entries and re-completions, where a driller re-enters an existing and declining well to access more rock and pump new life out of it (see our refrac stories here). Last July, we brought you an article about refracs, detailing the two main.

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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.