May 7, 2008
Horizontal Stimulation
Pennsylvanian Cleveland. Cretaceous James Lime. Devonian Huron. These are three quite different formations—sands, carbonates and shales—in the Texas Panhandle, Ark-La-Tex and Appalachia, three widely separated U.S. provinces.What they have in common are uncommonly fine responses
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