Technology: Improving Exploration and Production Success, with Environmental Benefits

Technology Helps Wells Produce

As discussed on the previous slide, a "frac" leaves a highly permeable path for oil and natural gas to flow from the producing formation to the wellbore. The producing formation in this slide is the second from the bottom. The "frac" is the tan or brown sand ellipse. The path from the frac can be 20 times or more conductive to oil and natural gas flow than the original formation without a frac.