Noble boosts US onshore drilling times, nears completion on Leviathan

摘要

While many producers over the last few years boosted production volumes through ever-higher volumes of proppants and fracking fluid, Noble Energy increased its returns and lowered drilling-andcompletion times by using less, it said. Noble significantly cut drilling times and costs in Colorado’s oil-rich Denver-Julesburg Basin in the second quarter of 2019 through the use of this technique, executives said during the company’s quarterly earnings call Friday.