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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 to multiple stimulations in horizontal wells. The completion technique of choice for horizontal holes in these plays is an open-hole system of mechanical, external packers run on production liner. The method allows for a series of high-pressure frac treatments all along the laterals.Packers Plus Energy Services Ltd. is a small, private Calgary-based firm that pioneered the open-hole stimulation...
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