you placed some comprehensive explanation of frac fluids and frac techniques here that is likely to befuddle a layman. but if repeated enough it might stick.
BTW, reason Continental is saying it will only take 800mbo wells rather than 600mbo wells is not just where they are drilled but also how they are completed.
One can get higher recoveries if one completes the well differently.
A number of those so-called marginal areas of Eagleford and Bakken are really just not as prolific as the core. Doesn’t mean they too cannot produce enough to be commercial if one fracs the wells differently.
1. more stages
2. more fluids
3. longer laterals
4. Slickwater fluids
In time, multi-laterals(more than one lateral in a well) will rule the day too
Yeah, the tech stuff is not for everyone, certainly.
But since the differences in cost was discussed in the original, I thought I share what they were talking about.