Friday, August 31, 2012

Schlumberger's clever frack takes aim at gas costs

Reuters: Production costs of natural gas from unconventional fields could tumble in the United States if a new technique developed by Schlumberger lives up to its billing. The world's largest oilfield services company by market value and others working in the industry have suffered this year because the runaway success of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and horizontal drilling techniques to extract so-called unconventional gas has created a glut and caused a price slide. But using a proprietary system...

URL: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/31/us-oil-conference-schlumberger-idUSBRE87U0GE20120831?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29

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