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

Rising natural gas demand from Gulf Coast pipeline expansions and gas-fired power generation for data centers could transform the Permian Basin from a region known for gas constraints into one that ...

As a case in point, the IER shares an example from the Property and Environmental Research Center. “There are about 80 million acres of federal forests that need restoration, but, due to NEPA and ...

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 ...

HOUSTON–Refracturing wells within even the first few years of production may provide significant economic benefits, especially during periods of downturns in oil and gas prices when drilling budgets ...

Kirk Raney is a petrochemist and principal consultant for Locus Bio-Energy SolutionsTM LLC, an Ohio-based company providing upstream nonbacterial, microbial-based solutions such as AssurEOR FLOWTM for ...

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 ...

On a hydraulic fracturing job site, the sand king is a critical piece of machinery at the heart of the stimulation operation. It “feeds the beast” by taking proppant from an endless cavalcade of ...

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

What pleases independent producers about the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (TMS) in southeastern Louisiana and the southwestern edge of Mississippi is not so much what the formation is, but rather what it ...

Colorado School of Mines researchers took a hard look at two methods for calculating total organic carbon from well logs. Here they reveal their findings.

TULSA–The Granite Wash is a large unconventional play stretching across the southwest Anadarko Basin in the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma. Although it has been developed for decades using vertical ...