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GeoLegends: Dan Steward (Part 3)

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Dan Steward - On Achieving George Mitchell's Vision: Producing Hydrocarbons from the Barnett Shale, Fort Worth Basin, Texas (Part 3)

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Part of the team that developed fracture stimulation techniques and experimented with horizontal drilling technology for Mitchell Energy, breaking new ground in the understanding of unconventional shale-gas plays. Show More

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Bottoms up! The successful Barnett play is getting a second look, thanks to a new study that took a bottomsup approach to determines areas with the best potential.

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I can remember hearing, way back in 1977, the president of a major oil company that I worked for say that the United States had run out of oil and gas – there was not much left to find and develop.

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Dan Steward takes pride in doing a good job yet without calling attention to himself. That’s no small achievement. That play was the big reason why Steward was cited as the Explorer of the Year at the recent AAPG Annual Convention in Long Beach, Calif.
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