MIDLAND BASIN STACKS UP

摘要

If you need to be on site for a West Texas oilpatch job at dawn, be sure to allow extra time to get through the traffic lights in Midland, because the boom is back and traffic is stacked. After nearly a century of conventional drilling in the Permian Basin, unconventional drilling and completion technology has arrived. Horizontal is supplanting vertical basinwide. The only conundrum: which of the multiple pay-zone intervals present throughout the basin to attack first?