斯威夫特能源公司总部设在休斯敦,是一家生产石油和天然气的独立公司,它在数年前就预料到原油和天然气价格在90年代前半期会大幅度上涨。为此,它着手研究有助于其参与美国油气储量勘探和开发油气竞争的新技术。该公司主要关注的是水平井钻井技术和先进的地震资料处理技术。此外,该公司根据与 Lloyd Fons 勘探公司达成的勘探许可区协议,开始研究一种后来获得专利的技术,这种技术可用作为一种使勘探努力 Headquartered in Houston, Swift Energy, an independent oil and gas company, predicted a few years ago that crude oil and natural gas prices would soar in the first half of the 1990s. To that end, it is investigating new technologies that will help it to participate in the exploration of the United States oil and gas reserves and to develop oil and gas competition. The company’s main focus is horizontal well drilling technology and advanced seismic data processing technology. In addition, the company, based on an exploration license agreement with Lloyd Fons Exploration Company, began researching a later patented technology that could be used as a source of exploration effort