FRACS

Pushing demand up is the trend for wider, shorter fracs, which require twice as much sand.

The industry has gone from drilling four wells per square mile to up to 16 using shorter, wider fracs.

For example, Fracs over 5,000 feet horizontally generally showed lesser returns as did Fracs using over 6,000 pounds of sand.

The conclusion was there was some correlation between more oil and gas produced and bigger and longer fracs up to a point at which time there were diminishing returns.