Unconventional oil and natural gas extraction enabled by horizontal drilling and hydraulic
fracturing (fracking) is driving an economic boom, with consequences described from …

Shale gas and hydraulic refracturing has revolutionized the US energy sector in terms of
prices, consumption, and CO 2 emissions. However, key questions remain including …

Considerable controversy continues about water availability for and potential impacts of
hydraulic fracturing (HF) of hydrocarbon assets on water resources. Our objective was to …

As a milestone of the entire energy industry, unconventional resources have inevitably
swept the world in the last decade, and will certainly dominate the global oil and gas …

We study the effects of the property tax base shock caused by natural gas drilling in the
Barnett Shale in Texas—a state that taxes oil and gas wells as property. Over the boom and …

© 2014 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved is a sharp turnaround from more
pessimistic outlooks that prevailed until about five years ago. Throughout the 1990s, US …

Abstract The Eagle Ford Shale presents a unique opportunity to assess the effect of wide-
ranging fluid properties and pressure on well performance across a single shale play …

About half of US natural gas comes from gas shales. It is valuable to study field production
well by well. In early 2018, there were some 67,000 active horizontal gas shale wells in the …

A comprehensive regional investigation of the Eagle Ford Shale linking productivity to
porosity-thickness (PHIH), lithology (V clay), pore volume (PHIT), organic matter (TOC), and …

In a low-price environment, experts raise concerns about the economic viability of drilling in
many locations across the Eagle Ford Shale play area. Although advances in drilling and …