Archive for the ‘Tight Gas’ Category

The draft final scientific report on the impact of hydraulic fracturing in unconventional shale reservoirs in Australia’s Northern Territory, released for public viewing last week, has reached an overall conclusion that the challenges and risks associa…

Painted Pony Petroleum Ltd., Calgary, will increase 2017 drilling in
the Montney play of British Columbia to 71 wells and 64 completions from
its previously planned 58 wells and 51 completions after acquiring UGR
Blair Creek Ltd. in a $229.6-million…

Tulsa-based Oneok Inc. will acquire all of the outstanding common units of Oneok Partners LP not already owned by Oneok for $9.3 billion in Oneok common stock.

Questerre Energy Corp.’s 04-16-63-6W6M (04-16 well), drilled in June with a 2,200-m lateral, has produced 2,110 boe/d consisting of 6.18 MMcfd and 1,081 b/d of condensate during 746 hr of production testing. The well flowed 1,458 boe/d (4.4 MMcfd of gas and 723 b/d of condensate) from Montney during the last 24 hr of the test.

NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd. (NGTL), a wholly owned subsidiary of TransCanada Corp., will move forward with its $655-million (Can.) Saddle West project in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.

Samples collected from the Kirthar fold belt area near BHP Billiton Ltd.’s Rehmat gas field in the Dadu district near Sindh, Pakistan (Fig. 1), will provide new direction in the development of tight-gas reserves in Pakistan.

The most attractive oil region in the US and perhaps the world has added more than 100 active rigs since last spring.

The overall US drilling rig count increased by 5 to 593 during a week ended Nov. 23 that was shortened by the Thanksgiving Day holiday, according to Baker Hughes Inc. data.

Sinopec Ltd. reported that Fuling shale gas field in southwestern China produced a cumulative 3.76 billion cu m of gas from January to September. The 107% increase in production was accompanied by additional processing capacity of 5.5-6.5 bcm, the comp…

AltaGas Ltd. of Calgary has reached final investment decision (FID) to move forward with construction of the company’s proposed North Pine propane extraction plant about 40 km northwest of Fort St. John, BC.