Operators in the Permian basin had lagged behind their competitors in other US shale plays when it came to adopting the latest completion techniques but that is changing fast, with big implications for the services market and production as a whole.
“It’s just a factor of the maturity,” Halliburton completion and production southern region director Stephen Ingram says, explaining that operators began by delineating their acreage with a basic fracture design to determine their most productive rock.
“Then
