Competing companies often have different names for the same new thing. Which of these is not a name used by companies fracturing many unconventional wells at generally the same time and place?
Optimized sequenced development
Tank style completions
Cube development
Supersized pads
Answer: Supersized pads
Explanation: Encana’s Cube label is the most used one, while others call them tanks or optimized sequence development. Supersized pads was a description used by the author of this JPT story.
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The British Royal Engineers designed and installed what offshore first after the Normandy invasion as part of Operation Pluto?
Jackup
Flexible subsea pipeline
Floating platform
Umbilical
Answer: Flexible subsea pipeline
Explanation: During Operation Pluto, the Royal Engineers laid the pipeline across the English Channel to fuel the Allied Army after the D-Day invasion.
Caudrilla Resources recently reached a milestone by getting the final permit needed to fracture two horizontal gas wells in the UK, with laterals about how long?
2,500 ft
3,300 ft
5,000 ft
6,500 ft
The permits will allow Caudrilla to fracture the first two horizontal shale gas wells in the UK, one with a 750 m lateral and the other an 800 m long, around 2,500 ft, according to the company.
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When using machine learning to evaluate completions, Pioneer Natural Resources reported one information type short circuits its ability to evaluate other variables. What is that information?
Well locations
Pounds/foot of sand
Lateral lengths
Fluid type
Answer: Well locations
Explanation: Pioneer experts warned in this story that well names or the county names when provided tend to “short circuit” consideration of more quantifiable performance drivers in the models.
A deal between Equinor and Ambyint will mean that hundreds of Bakken wells will be equipped with pump control devices using edge computing, which is
Cutting edge technology
Data processing at site
Setting an edge on pump rate
Using Oracle Edge cloud
Answer: Data processing at site
Explanation: While it does set the pump rate, edge computing refers to using on-site computing to process high-frequency data, bringing down the bandwidth needed to upload data to the cloud-based system.