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Texas Professor Discovers Better Path to Identify and Frac Permian Sweet Spots, Avoid Drilling Poor Wells

Texas Professor Discovers Better Path to Identify and Frac Permian Sweet Spots, Avoid Drilling Poor Wells

From the Midland Reporter-Telegram

University of Texas of the Permian Basin Professor Ahmed Alzahabi has been studying shale rock for the past four years.

As Permian Basin oil and gas operators seek to optimize production in their wells by better …

Colorado Frac War Heats Up as Polls Show Citizens Lean Toward Bigger Setback

Colorado Frac War Heats Up as Polls Show Citizens Lean Toward Bigger Setback

From The Daily Caller

Internal polls suggest a Colorado ballot initiative effectively banning fracking in the state is likely to pass with more than 60 percent support, Axios reported Monday.

Coloradans are preparing to vote in November on an initiative …

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HighPoint Resources Drops Completion Time to 4.2 Days per Well; Wants to Bring Second Rig to Hereford

HighPoint Resources Corporation (ticker: HPR) reported a net income loss of $24.9 million, or $(0.20) per share for the first quarter of 2018. HighPoint produced 1.91 MMBoe in the quarter, which was at the midpoint of its guidance range of …

Sanchez Energy Produced 80.5 MBOEPD in Q1

Sanchez Energy Produced 80.5 MBOEPD in Q1

Sanchez Energy Corporation (ticker: SN) reported a net loss of $4.8 million for the first quarter 2018, or $(0.30) per share attributable to common stockholders. The quarter included $24.4 million in non-cash mark-to-market losses related to hedging activities, Sanchez said.…

Demand for Frac Sand is “Insatiable”: Hi-Crush CEO

Demand for Frac Sand is “Insatiable”: Hi-Crush CEO

Hi-Crush Partners LP (ticker: HCLP) reported a Q1 2018 net income of $53.1 million, or $0.59 per diluted share. Revenues for the quarter totaled $218.1 million on sales of 2,617,627 tons of frac sand. Capital expenditures in Q1 2018 were …

India’s Guar Gum Producers Are Riding the U.S. Frac Boom

India’s Guar Gum Producers Are Riding the U.S. Frac Boom

From Financial Express

Guar gum, an extract of guar seeds, was used primarily as just a stabilizing agent in ice creams and personal care products a decade ago. Then the shale boom took place and giant US corporations like Halliburton …

May 1, 2018 - 8:08 am Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, Fracing
Proppant Company to Increase Capacity to 1 MM Tons by Mid-Year

Proppant Company to Increase Capacity to 1 MM Tons by Mid-Year

Select Sands delivered proppant by barge starting in Q4

Select Sands Corp. (ticker: SNS) reported full-year revenues of $15.1 million, with a gross profit of $2.9 million. However, the company had a full-year net loss of $1.6 million, or $(0.02) …

April 11, 2018 - 3:51 pm Closing Bell Story‎, Fracing, Oil and Gas 360 Articles
Eclipse Resources Chairman and CEO Ben Hulburt

Eclipse Resources Utica Well Goes to 30,000 Feet TD with a 19.3K Horizontal

Super laterals made the difference: Eclipse had eight of Q4 2017’s top ten producing wells in Ohio – Hulburt

Eclipse Resources Corporation (ticker: ECR) successfully drilled its longest Utica Dry Gas well to date. The Wiley D 8H had a …

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PetroShare Preps for April Frac at Shook Pad

DJ Basin focused PetroShare Corp. (ticker: PRHR) reported yearend proved reserves of approximately 7.9 MMBOE, a 25% increase over 2016 yearend proved reserves. The PV-10 value was about $59 million and the volume of the proved reserves is split 67% …

Frac Provider Liberty Oilfield Services Earns $130 Million in 2017

Frac Provider Liberty Oilfield Services Earns $130 Million in 2017

Liberty added 1,000 new employees in 2017, ordered two additional frac fleets to be delivered in Q3, Q4 2018

Newly public Liberty Oilfield Services Inc. (ticker: LBRT) earned $45 million, or $0.30 per share in Q4 2017.

For the full …

STEP Energy Services to Acquire U.S. Frac Company for US$275 Million

STEP Energy Services to Acquire U.S. Frac Company for US$275 Million

Deal adds 4 frac spreads and 192,500 HP, mostly in SCOOP/STACK, Woodford

STEP Energy Services Ltd. has entered into an agreement to acquire all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of Tucker Energy Services Holdings, Inc. for total cash …

Energen Approaches 100 MBOEPD

Energen Approaches 100 MBOEPD

Energen Corporation (ticker: EGN) released financial and operating results for the fourth quarter and calendar year ended December 31, 2017.

“Over the last five years, the board and management have strategically divested non-core assets and transformed Energen into a low-cost …

Hi-Crush Sells 8.93 Million Tons of Frac Sand in 2017

Hi-Crush Sells 8.93 Million Tons of Frac Sand in 2017

Hi-Crush Partners LP (ticker: HCLP) reported its Q4 and full year 2017 results. Revenues for the fourth quarter of 2017 totaled $216.5 million on sales of 2,985,115 tons of frac sand. This compares to $167.6 million of revenues on sales …

Weatherford: Net Loss of $1.94 Billion

Weatherford: Net Loss of $1.94 Billion

Weatherford International plc (ticker: WFT) reported a net loss of $1.94 billion, or a loss of ($1.95) per share for the fourth quarter of 2017. Non-GAAP net loss for the fourth quarter of 2017, excluding charges and credits, was $329 …

Goodrich Petroleum Announces $65-75 Million Capital Expenditure Budget

Goodrich Petroleum Announces $65-75 Million Capital Expenditure Budget

Early today Goodrich Petroleum Corporation (ticker: GDP) announce a preliminary capital expenditure budget for 2018 of $65 to $75 million.

100% of the coming year’s budget will be allocated to the company’s core acreage in the Haynesville Shale in the …

Ban on Sand for Oil and Gas Development Prompts Lawsuit in Minnesota

Ban on Sand for Oil and Gas Development Prompts Lawsuit in Minnesota

Is sand the new oil & gas battleground?

Is sand the next battleground for energy development? The early salvos are taking place in Minnesota’s Winona County.

In late 2016, Winona County commissioners voted to ban what the Minneapolis Star Tribune …

Frac Sands Feeling Pressure

Frac Sands Feeling Pressure

Frac sand companies could continue to feel strain even if oil makes a recovery

Every corner of the oil and gas industry has felt the effects of lower commodity prices since prices fell off drastically November of last year. Even …

April 27, 2015 - 6:59 pm Commodity Pricing, Fracing, Oil and Gas 360 Articles
EIA: North America Pacing the World in Tight Oil, Shale Gas Development

EIA: North America Pacing the World in Tight Oil, Shale Gas Development

The United States and Canada are the only two countries in the world to commercially produce both shale gas and tight oil, the Energy Information Administration said on February 13, 2015. Two other countries, China and Argentina, are the only …

CARBO Ceramics Prepared for 2015 with New Technologies, Strong Balance Sheet

CARBO Ceramics Prepared for 2015 with New Technologies, Strong Balance Sheet

CARBO Ceramics (ticker: CRR), a production enhancement services provider based in Houston, Texas, is not immune from the recent commodity downswing. Even though United States production is expected to remain flat or even increase through 2015, the declining rig count …

February 10, 2015 - 7:13 pm Earnings, Fracing, Oil and Gas 360 Articles, Oilfield Services
“To Frac or to Frack, That is the Question”

“To Frac or to Frack, That is the Question”

Oil & Gas 360® received an email from a reader, asking us to think about the spelling of the word Frac versus Frack.  Now, dear readers, we are in the Frac camp.  For a couple of reasons.  First, there’s no …

December 10, 2014 - 2:50 pm Fracing, Oil and Gas 360 Articles