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SPECIAL REPORT: Shell optimizes new Pinedale completions

08/18/2008
Shell Rocky Mountain Production LLC is optimizing drilling, well design, and completions in the Pinedale field in western Wyoming’s Green River basin to increase production and reduce surface disturbance. The company is drilling more than 90 wells in the 150-sq-mile area this year.The Pinedale anticline is 35 miles long, 6 miles wide, and produces from upper Cretaceous fluvial shales, siltstones, and sandstones. The California Co. drilled the first well in 1939, but the low permeabilities of the rock and distance to the nearest pipelines precluded production.Introducing hydraulic fracturing in the 1990s and using multistage fracs have allowed operators to develop Pinedale into the s...
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