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Rethinking Refracturing

"Another implication of the findings involves the future of refracturing for Bakken operators. Some operators are turning to refracturing parent wells as a protection measure for the parent, but also for the child well which needs its fractures to crack open new rock.

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However, results reported by the EERC do not add up to a strong endorsement of the practice for mitigation reasons. They suggest refracturing can be a mitigating tool but only at relatively tight well spacings and even then, the net impact may not be impressive."