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2020 Drilling, Completions, and Frac Sand Demand and Projections How will E&Ps and service providers operate in the new capital discipline environment of 2020? Shale experts Ryan Hassler and Thomas Jacob with Rystad Energy discussed the outlook for 2020 and what to expect in terms of capex, drilling and completions projections, frac sand demand and…
In-Basin Sand Cost-Savings in Oklahoma’s Anadarko Basin The adoption of in-basin sand has been wide-scale and swift––and for good reason. In-basin sand delivers significant cost savings, which can have a profound effect on a well’s economic potential. For SCOOP/STACK/Cana-Woodford producers, including Black Mountain Sand’s Watonga White™ sand in their completion designs can deliver upwards of…
2019 Oil and Gas Outlook According to Experts 2018 Oil & Gas Price Recap 2018 was a volatile year for the oil and gas industry, featuring both good news and bad news. Brent crude prices started the year around $66 per barrel, climbed to $86 per barrel, and dropped down to yearly lows in December…
Electric Fracturing Fleets vs Conventional Fleets With the explosion of growth in the Permian basin and other key domestic shale oilfields, hydraulic fracturing — a technique of drawing natural gas and oil from subterranean rock using special processes and equipment — has become highly competitive. In the oil and gas industry, the ability to mobilize…
Record DUC Wells Equals Record Frac Sand Demand Drilled Uncompleted Wells (DUCs) are reaching record levels according to the EIA. August of 2018 added another 238 DUC wells in the major basins to reach a record 8,269 drilled uncompleted wells in inventory in the United States. The Permian Basin leads the pack with 3,630 DUC…
US & Russia Battle for #1 in Crude Oil Production For quite some time, forecasters were able to see a change coming, one that deals with a global struggle over crude oil production. The U.S. has been a major producer of petroleum liquids for years but has still trailed oil production titans like Saudi Arabia…
Permian Basin Frac Sand Demand Skyrocketing Hydraulic fracturing (fracing) operations in the oil-rich Permian Basin have already taken off, leading experts to forecast that the area’s output by 2023 will be double what it was in 2017. This means that fracing investment continues to rise, especially in the materials that are pivotal parts of the…
In 2016, the United States’ dependence on foreign oil hit a 30-year low. This news may have been largely ignored by the average American, but those who remember the oil shortages in the 1970s surely recognized the significance. In 1973, OPEC, the group of (at the time) Arab nations responsible for the majority of the…