[Malsua]

Why does it take a week to Frac a well? When I worked in the Oilfield in the early 80s, it took two days tops. Haliburton showed up with a sand truck, a couple water tanks arrive and a few hours later, the formation is frac’d. No biggie.

Course, that was Clinton formation, not sure what formation these folks are into. Gas was Berea formation in Ohio, dunno what it is in Texas.

[BGHater]

Not sure about Ohio, but Texas is usually tight gas, devonian shale and coal-bed methane. I don’t know if they still have the experience there to speed up their operations or perhaps they simply are overstretched.

[-=SoylentSquirrel=-]

"...Course, that was Clinton formation..."

One thing I've learned in the past few years is that the Clinton Formation is notoriously easy to frac.....

[Deguello]

The full week needed was to bring in the work-over rig to prep, bringing in the sand bins & filling these and then the rest of the frac trucks and the blender. Some fracing was taking 2 or more days.

FYI...there was a casing crew guy killed last week around Fort Stockton, Texas; when he fell on top of the traveling blocks and was cut in half. The rig type was a Super Single.

[Jedidah]

Tight rock, using new technology implemented in recent years.

Back in the early 80s that you mention, the Barnett Shale was known to have gas that was considered unrecoverable.