New Tech Boosts Production in Older Conventional & Shale Wells

According to one Appalachian producer, small operators of conventional oil and gas wells in Appalachia are facing "an economic Armageddon." Prices for natural gas are so low operators can't afford to do anything but the most critical maintenance work. Yet our intrepid operator is hopeful nonetheless. He's using a new method of "acidizing" wells that (in at least one case) triples gas output. How'd he do it?

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