During hydraulic fracturing well stimulation, one of the costliest setbacks that can occur is a screen out, a condition in which pump pressure levels unexpectedly rise rapidly in excess of the safe-operating parameters of the wellbore or wellhead equipment. This condition, which occurs in up to 25% of well completions,...
Dell recently ranked oil and gas production among the top 20 most rugged jobs in America. The list evaluated the physical labor, risk of fatality and injury, and environmental exposure that workers encounter daily. These conditions push mental and physical limits, but a context that is often overlooked is...
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WEN South Texas Hosts: From the Wellhead to the Water More than 75 people attended the Feb. 27 luncheon featuring Sean Strawbridge, CEO, Port Corpus Christi, and he had a lot to say. As the keynote speaker of the event, Sean Strawbridge mentioned the upcoming elections and the concern over the...
In oilfield drilling operations, “wireline logging” is the process that enables the operators to collect data about the formation through which they are drilling. The graphical representation of the geological data acquired in the process is called a log.
The Difference Between Wireline and Logging While Drilling (LWD) Technologies
Before drilling...
Blockchain in Energy
Blockchain technology is the simplest form of the public ledger and shared database that assists in identifying, tracking and tracing every transaction on the enterprise blockchain network. These transactions are recorded in the form of blocks. These blocks are added to the blockchain in a linear and...
Meet the Demand to Improve Liquidity with Seamless Invoicing
If you were to pick the singular, culture-defining moment that transformed the business environment in the decades bracketing the turn of the millennium, you would have to choose technology for the many ways it streamlined operational processes.
Two decades later, we are...
Publisher's Note
Welcome to yet another great issue of SHALE Magazine.
We are happy to have Tracee Bentley, President and CEO of the Permian Strategic Partnership, gracing our cover on the March/April edition of SHALE Magazine.
As we all know, the Permian Basin is buzzing with energy activity. While the world focuses...
Things have gone from bad to worse. Following a year of lackluster oil pricing and a general decline in oil and gas E&P activity in Texas in 2019, oil markets are now reeling from the fallout of the coronavirus and its impact on energy demand growth in the U.S....
There is really only one subject currently occupying the undivided attention of each and every person affected in any way by the oil and gas industry. To write about anything else would be about as nonsensical as trading favorite recipes during the final moments on the Titanic. This industry...
Shale Play Energy Updates
Note: Recent events surrounding the global coronavirus pandemic and the collapse of the OPEC+ export limitation agreement have disrupted the normal course of business in the U.S. shale industry. At the time of this issue’s publication, shale producers were universally focused on restructuring their capital budgets...
