Un esempio del Fracklog (ovvero pozzi quasi finiti o finiti ma non ancora sfruttuati):
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EOG – the largest operator in the U.S. shale oil fields – is cutting its capital budget 40 per cent this year to $5-billion. EOG is pursuing a strategy that is increasingly used in the industry – drilling wells but waiting until the market improves to frack them and start production. The company has an inventory of 200 uncompleted wells and plans for that number to build through the year.
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Deep in the heart of the Texas oil boom - The Globe and Mail
Now many are adopting a new strategy that will allow them to pump even more crude as soon as oil prices begin to rise. They are drilling wells but holding off on hydraulic fracturing, or forcing in water and chemicals to free oil from shale formations. The delay in the start of fracking lets companies store oil in the ground in a way that enables them to tap it unusually quickly if they wish—and flood the market again.
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EOG Resources Inc., an oil producer based in Texas, is drilling about 285 wells that it won’t start finishing off until crude oil’s price rebounds to between $60 and $65 a barrel.
“When oil prices recover, EOG will be prepared to resume strong double-digit oil growth,” Chief Executive Bill Thomas said recently.
Some other big names in U.S. energy also are delaying well completions, among themAnadarko Petroleum Corp., Apache Corp., Chesapeake Energy Corp. and Continental Resources Inc. These four plus EOG pumped 312 million barrels of oil in the U.S. in 2014, or almost 10% of American crude production.
The number of wells in Texas and North Dakota that have been drilled but aren’t yet pumping is at least 3,000, RBC Capital Markets estimates. That oil still in the ground “provides a war chest that could temper fundamental price spikes in the coming year,” RBC analyst Scott Hanold wrote in a Friday note.
This essentially is more U.S. crude in storage, akin to that in the tanks now brimming. The U.S. has 449 million barrels of oil sloshing around in tanks, the highest level on record and almost 70% of capacity, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
U.S. Producers Ready New Oil Wave - WSJ




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