Industry Eyes Refracking Technology To Extend Life of Shale Wells

摘要

Refracking existing wells has vast potential, but also considerable limitations, as the industry employs new technologies to extract more gas and oil from shale formation, officials and analysts say. More than 250,000 gas and oil wells have been refracked in the US onshore over the past 60 years, they told the recent Enercom Oil and Gas Conference in Denver. And David Demshur, chief executive of service provider Core Laboratories, told Natural Gas Weekin an interview that the industry is still in the early stages of understanding what makes the best candidate for a secondary completion.