Since its founding in 2019, the Permian Strategic Partnership has invested $21 million in education, healthcare, workforce development, and road safety.

The Fischer-Tropsch reactors used in smaller scale gas-to-liquids plants may be configured to efficiently produce 1,500-15,000 barrels a day of liquid fuels, consuming 15,000-150,000 MMBtu of 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.

EVERGREEN CO.–Producers continue to shift significant budget dollars to liquids-rich plays, including high-Btu gas and crude/condensate production with high-Btu associated gas. The result is growing ...

THE WOODLANDS, TX.–With more rigs now targeting crude oil than natural gas reserves, oil is spurring increased demand for all types of production and artificial lift equipment and services. While ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stacked-pay geology, top-flight industry technology, and well economics among the best in the nation are combining to create golden opportunities for independent oil and gas companies in the oil-prone ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D.–Total in-place oil estimates for the Bakken petroleum system (including the Three Forks formation) range from 160 billion to more than 900 billion barrels. However, Bakken/Three ...

GOLDEN, CO.–While initial production rates are high from horizontal wells in ultratight oil formations, reservoir recovery factors are very low, averaging in the range of 5-10 percent. The low primary ...

HOUSTON–The Midland Basin is seeing an unprecedented boom in pad drilling driven by stacked pays in the Spraberry and Wolfcamp formations. Operators are targeting up to four reservoirs in one section ...

ELENA MELCHERT is a petroleum engineer and the director of the Upstream Oil & Gas Research Division in DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy. She joined DOE in 1985, and has extensive experience in upstream ...