Williams Production Gulf Coast Co. is simultaneously fracturing wells in North Texas to improve production rates. Since 2005, Williams has drilled more than 100 horizontal wells in the Barnett shale, ...

Trimulfracs are an extension of simultaneous fracturing treatments (simulfracs) to maximize capital efficiency. Trimulfracs keep pace with four to five drilling rigs and create greater consistency in ...

Thick-coal-seam with complex structures and thick-hard roof in the initial mining phase pose various challenges, including a long weighting interval, strong rock pressure, poor top coal caving ...

Many high-horsepower pumps are sitting idle at the nation's largest oil patches, even after they reignited U.S. energy production and stirred national debate over a process called hydraulic fracturing ...