The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Sarah Phillips joins host Jason Spiess for an update from the Marcellus/Utica/Appalachian Basin and some innovations in the next generation of performance materials and chemical technologies. She explains how micro-hold technology is finding some traction in shale plays.
Before that, Sarah shares her journey in oil and gas, which came natural, but not easy. Surrounded by a support system who is anti-fossil fuel, Sarah had to overcome some personal peer pressures to get where she is today. This is important to note because the interview sidebarred into this issue.
Jason shares a side of his personal life filled with fossil fuel scorn as well. Both Sarah and Jason talk about how the oil and gas industry emitted an awesome energy amplifying empowering opportunities for hard working, ethical individuals.
After attending the University of West Virginia for a petroleum engineer degree, Sarah “fracked for the summer” and eventually landed with Schlumberger. She describes her experience working the cold winters and learning the patriarchal ways of the oil field.
The micro-hold innovation talk took a deep dive into the technology being studied, developed and implemented by TenEx. Sarah explains how it works and why companies are seeing drops in treatment pressure and less pump time.
To see the presentation of TenEx’s results in the Niobrara, click here
Sarah also asked listeners and readers to engage and read a letter that was sent from EQT’s president and CEO Toby Rice to U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren. Click here to read the letter.
Sarah works for Knight Energy Services, LLC who provide drilling, completion, and production rental equipment and services solutions to the oil and gas industry.
The Appalachian Basin extends from central Alabama to the Adirondack Mountains in New York.
The Basin, which contains up to 40,000 ft of stratified rocks (Colton, 1962), underlies the Valley and Ridge and Appalachian Plateaus physiographic provinces and includes parts of 11 states. Both of these provinces are mountainous. Two states have Valley and Ridge geology only (GA, NJ), two have Appalachian Plateaus geology only (KY, OH), and seven include parts of both provinces represented (AL, MD, PA, NY, TN, VA, and WV).
The Appalachian Basin Project area adjoins, along its eastern boundary, the Blue Ridge and Piedmont Provinces which constitute the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program Blue Ridge and Piedmont Project and along its northern boundary the Adirondacks and New England Provinces that comprise the Northeast Bedrock Mapping Project.
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