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Sources Regarding Fracking
Sources Regarding Fracking
Liberty Oilfield Services wa the top pressure pumper in the Bakken in 2016; Liberty Oilfield Services bought out bankrupt Sanjel; about 20 frack companies in North Dakota right now; only about 8 frack crews working in North Dakota now, October 7, 2016.
Packers Plus Energy Services update on high-intensity wells in the Bakken, May 21, 2016.
Half of all fracking companies could be "dead" or sold by end of 2015, April, 22, 2015.
Coiled tubing fracking: reader's input. New method will probably become the norm, May 9, 2014.
Completion technologies 101: a UND-EERC primer on completion/fracking. A one-page PDF file.
KOG's all-ceramic experience, at SeekingAlpha, September 25, 2013.
Zipper fracks and other fracking technology information from the trenches, January 3, 2012.
A definitive reply to fracking technologies from the trenches, January 2, 2012.
A nice presentation: challenges with fracking, a PDF file so it might take a moment to load. A great source document; several story lines. Maybe more later. -- December 14, 2012.
Minnesota-Wisconsin Frack Sand Map
Ceramic Proppant for sale; click here.
Ceramic Proppant for sale; click here.
Fracking Chemicals
Southwest Engineers / EarthWater Resources announce "major" new project, June 19, 2013
"Top Ten" List
National and Regional Companies Providing Hydraulic Fracturing Stimulation Services
1. Schlumberger (Hiway process)
2. Halliburton
3. Sanjel -- bankrupt in 2015 (thereabouts); bought out by Denver-based Liberty Oilfield Services
4. Baker Hughes (subsidiary BJ Services Company) (added after first comment below)
5. Frac Teck (in North Dakota, see comment below, several comments down)
6. CalFrac (complex located west of Williston at Four-Mile Corner; see comment; expanded; 4-spreads)
7. Weatherford (huge presence in Williston; search blog for "Weatherford")
8. Pumpco (see first comment below)
9. Trican: e-mail received November 25, 2012, says it is located in Minot;
10. Cudd (located west of Williston; acidizing, but not yet fracking is what I've heard)
11. Complete Production Services -- merged with Superior Energy Services, as of February 7, 2012 (subsidiaries in Watford City, Richardton, Williston -- not sure if they do pressure pumping in ND)
12. Key Energy Services (in Williston, Tioga, Dickinson, Sidney; not sure if it fracks); a reader says that Key Energy no longer in North Dakota, November 25, 2012; another reader says the company is still in Williston, Sidney, Dickinson;
13. Patterson-UTI (not in North Dakota at present time)
14. Superior Well Services (service center in Williston; not sure if fracking)
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16. C&J Energy Services (website map shows Bakken; links mention Bakken, but website does not say they are in the Bakken). C&J acquires Casedhole Solutions (effective June 7, 2012) and Casedhole Solutions is solidly in the Bakken. According to the website, Casedhole Solutions is in the non-frack pressure pumping business (non-frack). [See comment dated: February 26, 2013.]
17. Chesapeake -- see below. FTS -- a 30-percent-owned subsidiary (FTS International -- formerly known as Frac Tech Services -- to go public in 2012.
18. RockPile Energy Services, LLC, created by and majority owned by Triangle Petroleum, a small operator in the Bakken
19. Chesapeake's Performance Technologies, see comments. Not in North Dakota.
20. See comments: Liberty Resources, which also fracs Zavanna's wells.
21. TAM International, announces Bakken regional headquarters to be established in Dickinson, November 27, 2012.
22. Liberty Oilfield Services, bought out bankrupt Sanjel, see October 7, 2016, news above.
Note: Key Energy Services (KEG): first time I had heard of this company was when Cramer recommended it on CNBC, January 9, 2012. See update and comments regarding KEG at this post. As noted above, I received an e-mail November 25, 2012, suggesting this company is no longer in North Dakota.
Yes, this list has more than 10 names on it, but this way I can track of them. Also, Chesapeake, I believe might do their own fracking -- at least I think I read that with regard to their natural gas wells in the east.
