With Permian Basin oil production climbing toward 6.8 million barrels a day and associated gas output approaching 30 billion ...

State and federal policy and regulatory decisions affecting operators in Texas’ oil and gas fields are made miles away, but the repercussions of distant decisions are acutely felt at home, says Hunter ...

Between 2010 and 2025, the amount of oil an average well in the Lower 48 produces in its first year has jumped from 60,000 barrels to 160,000. And those barrels cost significantly less to access. In ...

After a flurry of activity in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (TMS) met with some unexpected geological challenges three years ago, the persistent independent producers that stuck with the play say they ...

At 40,000 feet thick in its deepest portion, the Anadarko Basin in western Oklahoma presents one of the premier shale targets in North America. Newfield Exploration Co. opened the STACK (Sooner Trend ...

HOUSTON–When golfing great Bobby Jones won all four major golf championships in 1930, a writer for the New York Sun quipped that Jones had “stormed the impregnable quadrilateral of golf.” Today, we ...

Vapor recovery units can increase well site revenue while reducing emissions, but to deploy them economically, operators must overcome several challenges.

HOUSTON–Volatility in global oil prices is a constant and harsh reminder to oil and gas companies that they operate in a commodity market and must continually examine new methodologies and ...

According to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s annual report on oil and gas activity, operators produced 6.1 trillion cubic feet from the Marcellus and Utica in 2018–the most ...

DENVER–Rapid compression capacity expansions in gas gathering systems in unconventional resource plays, followed by the commodity price downturn, has driven the need to increase efficiency and reduce ...

HOUSTON–Even with the unprecedented and ongoing success of plays such as the Bakken, Eagle Ford, Marcellus and Wolfcamp, the industry has only scratched the surface of the tremendous potential of ...

AUSTIN, TX.–All geoscientists operate with a paradigm or working hypothesis on the nature of the subsurface in their project areas. Having a working model is imperative for predicting the nature and ...