NCS Multistage announced a record 92-stage completion in the Altares B.C. Montney formation, executed using the Multistage Unlimited pinpoint frac system from NCS Multistage.
October 12, 2016, 10:31 AM MDT
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Packers Plus Energy Services Inc. developed a unique completion design that helped to significantly increase stage counts and pump rates to stimulate more pay zone over previous wells for an operator in British Columbia's Montney formation.
September 29, 2016, 10:05 AM MDT
Manitok Energy Inc. this morning announced the initial production rates from a successfully drilled horizontal Lithic Glauconitic (LG) exploration well in the Rockyford area pursuant to a farm-out agreement, and that it had spud the first horizontal LG well of its 2016 drilling program in the Carseland area.
September 21, 2016, 7:08 AM MDT
Penn West Petroleum Ltd. expects to improve performance from its main area by putting Cardium wells on pressure support immediately, or almost immediately after they’re drilled, and by drilling the underlying Mannville.
September 14, 2016, 9:03 AM MDT
Controlling operating costs is one component companies can use to maximize natural gas netbacks, and one of the most important ways of doing that is making these costs variable rather than fixed, heard this week’s Peters & Co. Limited energy conference.
September 14, 2016, 8:49 AM MDT
Delphi Energy Corp. says it expects to ramp up production capability to approximately 9,100 boe per day in the coming weeks, remaining on target to achieve its 2016 exit production target.
September 13, 2016, 8:22 AM MDT
Canyon Services Group Inc. is expanding its capital program by $16.5 million, primarily to upgrade the capability of existing pressure pumping equipment and expand its fluid management equipment.
September 8, 2016, 8:38 AM MDT
Select Sands Corp. has completed the previously announced purchase of a permitted and producing wet processing plant, equipment and related assets, all near its Sandtown silica sands deposit in Arkansas from Tutle Holding, LLC.
September 8, 2016, 10:57 AM MDT
Flat Lake currently makes up about 10 per cent of corporate production for its largest producer — Crescent Point Energy Corp. — and that output just keeps growing for the company as it implements a pilot waterflood in the resource play.
September 7, 2016, 7:54 AM MDT
Devon Energy Corporation has successfully tested its third Meramec spacing pilot and commenced production on two high-rate, extended-reach lateral oil wells in the core of the overpressured oil window of the STACK.
September 7, 2016, 6 AM MDT
Quebec City-based Pétrolia Inc. says it has confirmed the existence of a functional oil reservoir comprised of natural fractures on the Haldimand property.
September 7, 2016, 6 AM MDT
U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. has completed the acquisition of Sandbox Enterprises LLC, a leading provider of innovative logistics solutions and technology for the transportation of proppant used in hydraulic fracturing in the oil and gas industry.
August 24, 2016, 6 AM MDT
Fracture stimulating wells after the initial treatment can be among a producer’s most profitable investments when the re-fracs are successful, but much can be done to improve the results, says an independent frac consultant.
August 23, 2016, 9:52 AM MDT
Packers Plus Energy Services Inc. recently worked with operator Dubai Petroleum Establishment to install and successfully stimulate an offshore carbonate reservoir using an open hole multi-stage ball-drop system.
August 23, 2016, 10:17 AM MDT
Select Sands Corp. has entered into an asset purchase agreement where it will buy certain assets of Tutle Holdings.
August 23, 2016, 7:36 AM MDT
Pétrolia Inc. announced the commencement of resource confirmation work on the Bourque property, which consists of the re-entry and completion of Bourque 1, as well as the drilling and completion of an additional well, Bourque horizontal No. 3. The project should start in the next few days.
August 18, 2016, 7:17 AM MDT
Trican Well Service Ltd.’s second quarter revenues plummeted to $32.5 million from $80.3 million a year earlier as low commodity prices hammered activity levels and pricing pressures mounted as service companies battled for work in a limited market.
August 12, 2016, 10:35 AM MDT
Settling into its role as the third largest pressure pumping company in Western Canada after the asset and equipment acquisition of Sanjel, STEP has recorded several notable accomplishments the past few months.
August 12, 2016, 6 AM MDT
U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Sandbox Enterprises LLC, a leading provider of innovative logistics solutions and technology for the transportation of proppant used in hydraulic fracturing in the oil and gas industry.
August 3, 2016, 8:51 AM MDT
Depressed pressure-pumping markets in the United States will eventually recover, and when they do, Calfrac Well Services Ltd. will return to the fray, company chief executive Fernando Aguilar said on Thursday.
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