Sentences with phrase «from wellbores»

Karlis Muelenbachs, a pioneer in tracking stray gases from wellbores and a professor at the University of Alberta, called the 2013 «internal» OGC report «sound» but incomplete.

«The existing criteria for an induced earthquake do not allow earthquakes associated with the well activity to occur this far away from the wellbore,» said Katie Keranen, assistant professor of geophysics at Cornell University, who led the study of the Jones earthquake swarm.

This will not however be an indication that flow from the wellbore has been permanently stopped.

Not exact matches

Carlson says the only part of a well that matters is the horizontal leg, which extends from the vertical wellbore toward the actual gas.

The fractures that originate from these points can be laterally extensive, and shale producers are studying ways to avoid them from hitting their other wellbores.