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May 9, 2008
Technology driving costs down and recoverables up

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Today’s technology is driving costs down and total recoverable resources up, according to panelists at the Developing Unconventional Gas conference in Fort Worth recently, presented by Oil and Gas Investor and E&P.

Panelists were Sidney Green, manager of geomechanics and business development for Schlumberger Ltd.; Larry Denver, chairman and chief executive of Ascend Geo LLC; Roy Hyden, strategic business manager, production enhancement, for Halliburton Co.; and Mikhael Ming, president of Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America.

 

-- Jeannie Stell

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