Roberta Barba News Today

Despite challenges such as rising costs and shortages of drilling material, the U.S. oil industry is expected to break its 2019 production record later this year

But shale giant ExxonMobil Corp. is now betting that shale producers can double crude output from their existing wells by employing novel fracking technologies

With the call for a boost in output growing louder, the debate around refracs is emerging again, and this time around, new techniques could help to stimulate old wells