Recompleting wells isn't anything new. Operators routinely evaluate previously drilled leaseholds to see if more production can be pulled from a field. With better-than-ever technology, however, producers today are finding they can reduce their drilling costs and extract substantially more oil and gas than they did when a well was drilled originally. Recompletions, often called restimulations, or refractures (refracks), make more sense in some cases than drilling a new well, according to Schlumberger Ltd.'s Robert Drummond, president of the North America division. He told a San Antonio crowd earlier in August that evolving drilling techniques offer producers an avenue to revive mature wells.

Pepin, not unobedient to the Popes call, passing into Italy, frees him out of danger

[H]is father entered the little glassed-off partition of the central shop, where the books were kept.

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