MARK STEVENS is director of communications and application development at Oceaneering Global Data Solutions in Houston. He joined the company in 1998, and his experience includes working with offshore ...

TULSA–Optimal well designs vary by area and operator in unconventional plays, but drilling and completion trends generally favor longer lateral sections, more hydraulic fracturing stages, and greater ...

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 ...

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 ...

As always, blockbuster Permian Basin deals are creating opportunities for far more than just the acquiring company. The repercussions of one of the largest—ExxonMobil’s acquisition of Pioneer Natural ...

As crude oil prices continue to climb, South Texas operators are zeroing in on new horizons in the Eagle Ford Shale and revisiting a formation once thought to be an industry classic: the Austin Chalk.

DENVER–The law doesn’t stop at the county line and geology doesn’t change according to city limits. The same formations that hold oil and gas accumulations in the subsurface far beneath pastures, corn ...

HOUSTON–Seneca Resources completed a group of Marcellus Shale horizontal wells in sequential order with preplanned fracture and reservoir diagnostics to better understand completion and stimulation ...

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 ...

HOUSTON–Well bore ballooning or breathing during drilling has become a greater challenge in horizontal resource plays. Ballooning is a formation anomaly whereby pumped fluids’ circulating friction ...

Tight oil plays may have made the Permian Basin a global powerhouse over the past decade, but natural gas is playing a growing role in its present and its future. Driven by associated gas volumes ...