[thackney]

It was developed for natural gas in the barnet formation

Horizontal drilling, a very separate job from hydraulic fracturing, is also older than the shale production and not limited to the use of tight formations. We did a lot of that in Alaska to limit the production pad size while covering a far larger area underground.

About 2008-9 they started experimenting with fracking oil

You are several decades behind.

http://www.spe.org/jpt/print/archives/2010/12/10Hydraulic.pdf

[American Constitutionalist]

OCTO OIL PAD BABY !

OCTOPAD .... oil rig drill plumes going out in all directions as tentacles, love it, so cool.

OCTOPAD OIL RIG, BE COOL, BE SAFE, SO COOL.

[American Constitutionalist]

Those OCTOPAD oil rigs just give me the warm fuzzies.... love it, productive production.