Energy & Science
Freeze Shuts Fracking Down in Biggest U.S. Shale Basins
- Fracking in Permian expected to stay shut until weekend
- Eagle Ford, SCOOP/STACK and Haynesville also affected
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Fracking in America’s biggest shale basins has gone dark as 70% of U.S. completion crews wait for an historic freeze to thaw out before they can return to work.
Texas’s Permian and Eagle Ford plays, the SCOOP/STACK fields of Oklahoma and the Haynesville Shale in Louisiana are all being affected, with the crews that blast water, sand and chemicals underground to release oil and gas unable operate, according to the industry research firm Infill Thinking. The four basins comprise almost three-quarters of the nation’s fleet of frack crews, according to the firm.