At-a-Glance: Solid expandable tubulars (SET) are run smaller and plastically expanded in-situ with a swage to restore or create a near-monobore inside existing casing or open hole. In fracturing, they ...

Coiled tubing (CT) is a flexible, continuous steel tube deployed under pressure control to execute precise, high-rate, and high-pressure tasks during hydraulic fracturing campaigns. It enables ...

Hydraulic fracturing is fueling an energy boom in the U.S. According to the Society of Petroleum Engineers, 60 percent of all new oil and gas wells globally are being “frac'ed” and 2.5 million fracs ...

Occidental Petroleum Corp. successfully performed post-fracturing cleanouts in Midland basin using aphron fluids in depleted reservoirs requiring light fluids with low leakoff properties. Comparison ...