WILLISTON: US oil companies, under renewed pressure from falling crude prices, are increasingly tweaking and mixing fracking technologies as they scramble to squeeze more out of wells and eke out profits after rounds of cost-cutting.
Shale oil firms need the experiments to payoff now more so than before given that oil prices have resumed their slide to trade around US$49 per barrel this week from US$60 a few months ago.
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