American Oil and Gas Reporter: “Multiple-Basin Analyses Affirm Performance of Regional Frac Sands”

“Multiple-Basin Analyses Affirm Performance of Regional Frac Sands”

By, Howard Melcher, Mike Mayerhofer, Karn Agarwal, and Ely Lolon.

DENVER–Even after more than a decade of concentrated drilling and completion activity and tens of thousands of wells on production, optimizing the horizontal development of liquids-rich resource plays remains an incomplete science. Several questions have not yet been fully answered regarding wellbore spacing, parent/child well interactions, lateral length, completion design, perforation strategy, etc. One such optimization question is how proppant type affects the conductivity of the created propped fractures….

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