WILLISTON, N.D. -- Monte Besler's job can be summed up in his license plate: FRACN8R. The Williston engineer who specializes in hydraulic fracturing once earned that nickname from a co-worker in the ...

In 1643, Evangelista Torricelli used a tube of mercury to first measure pressure. In 1897, German mechanical engineer Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine with financial help from the Krupp family ...

Stimulation techniques are used to encourage production to flow from the reservoir rocks. Hydrocarbons are located in the spaces between pores of reservoir rock. Production is achieved when these pore ...

While advances such as high-spec drilling rigs and better subsurface evaluation tools have decreased well costs, operators have focused much of their recent effort on refining their completions. In ...

Enter the “Hive.” Just outside of Denver, a small team of people oversees Liberty Energy’s entire fleet of fracking operations nationwide, largely to supervise the AI-automated work with human eyes.

Automated fracturing systems use machine learning models trained on extensive historical data to optimize treatment designs in real-time. Electric frac spreads with centralized digital control enable ...

Hydrajet fracturing, which can place multiple propped hydraulic fractures in precise locations, effectively stimulated two underperforming horizontal openhole gas wells in the low-permeability Cardium ...