US operators have made incredible gains in reducing well costs and increasing recoveries in the country’s onshore tight oil plays through a variety of innovations.
That technology is now heading back to where the shale boom began to revitalise the way operators look at natural gas plays.
Perhaps nowhere is the transfer of technology more evident than at shale giant Chesapeake Energy, the second largest natural gas producer in the US and one of the first companies to embrace the potential of shale and other tight reservoirs.
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