{"id":1873,"date":"2021-03-15T13:21:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T20:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertyenergy.com\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2021-03-15T13:21:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T20:21:53","slug":"ep-plus-magazine-shale-frac-designs-move-to-just-good-enough-proppant-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libertyenergy.com\/ep-plus-magazine-shale-frac-designs-move-to-just-good-enough-proppant-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"E&#038;P Plus Magazine: &#8220;Shale frac designs move to just-good-enough proppant economics&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Liberty&#8217;s Howard Melcher, Mike Mayerhofer, Karn Agarwal and Ray Ellis, recently published a piece in E&amp;P Plus magazine, &#8220;Shale frac designs move to just-good-enough proppant economics&#8221;, discussing the importance of proppant selection. &#8220;There is no clear evidence that higher conductivity proppants (either white sand versus regional sand or ceramic proppants versus white sand) result in better well performance and economics.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Check out the full piece <a href=\"https:\/\/epplus.hartenergy.com\/issue\/march-2021\/shale-frac-designs-move-to-just-good-enough-proppant-economics\/?fbclid=IwAR2Qhfi-o5JAfTHFc17wdh7hW82Sx4vR0C5BFWaXWrjM5I1QGQD318MSwDc\">here<\/a>!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty&#8217;s Howard Melcher, Mike Mayerhofer, Karn Agarwal and Ray Ellis, recently published a piece in E&amp;P Plus magazine, &#8220;Shale frac designs move to just-good-enough proppant economics&#8221;, discussing the importance of proppant selection. &#8220;There is no clear evidence that higher conductivity proppants (either white sand versus regional sand or ceramic proppants versus white sand) result in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorial","category-publications","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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