During a hydraulic fracture operation, very small earthquakes (M-4 to 0) (microseismic events) are induced from the high-pressure injection of fluids into the subsurface. These “microearthquakes” are ...

Hydraulic fracturing or fracking is an essential technique in the oil and gas industry, used to extract natural gas and oil from deep underground reservoirs. Traditionally, the process has involved a ...

Suggested Citation: "4 Offshore Technologies in Practice." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. Offshore Well Completion and Stimulation: Using Hydraulic Fracturing and ...

Hydraulic fracturing has attracted a lot of attention in recent years with the rise of U.S. shale oil and gas drilling and production. Hydraulic fracturing is also at the center of heated debates, ...

Hydraulic fracturing is a completion technique that pumps high-pressure fluid and proppant into a low-permeability reservoir to create and prop open fractures, increasing flow paths so oil can move to ...

Chevron Corporation’s CVX subsidiary, Chevron U.S.A. Inc., in strategic partnership with Halliburton Company HAL, a Houston, TX-based oil and gas equipment and services firm, has unveiled a ...

Automated fracturing systems use machine learning models trained on extensive historical data to optimize treatment designs in real-time. Electric frac spreads with centralized digital control enable ...

Russell McLendon is a science writer with expertise in the natural environment, humans, and wildlife. He holds degrees in journalism and environmental anthropology. In the 1953 Looney Tunes cartoon ...