Eagle Ford Shale

Eagle Ford Shale
Eagle Ford Overview: The Eagle Ford Shale, located in Southern Texas, may only have four years of production history, but it has quickly become one of the hottest resource plays in North America. Read More

Eagle Ford Counties: TX: Atascosa, Bee, DeWitt, Dimmit, Fayette Read More

Eagle Ford Pipelines (natural gas): Eagle Ford Crossover, Energy Transfer, Enterprise Products, Gulf South, HPL, KM Tejas, KM Texas, NGPL, Tennessee, Texas Eastern, Transco Read More

Eagle Ford Net Acreage Table: A table detailing the net acreage owned by various companies in the Eagle Ford shale. View Table

ARTICLES

Texas Operator Says Oil Price Slump Could Impact Future Drilling Plans

Clayton Williams Energy Inc. (CWEI) is tweaking its Eagle Ford Shale fracking operations and experimenting with downspacing. In the Delaware Basin, three of its recent wells ran into trouble, and the Midland, TX-based independent said it is monitoring the pullback in oil prices as it considers plans for next year. Read More

Rocky E&P Quarterlies Forecast on Oil Price Declines

Talk about domestic natural gas oversupply may not be the big story when the domestic exploration and production (E&P) sector unveils quarterly earnings reports over the next few weeks. Instead, conversations may center around the impact lower crude oil prices had on the third quarter, and what impact lower prices may have on drilling plans into 2015, energy analysts said this week. Read More

Mexico's Alfa Eyeing Funds to Pursue Shale Gas, Other Energy Opportunities

Sparked by Mexico's recent energy reform, Alfa, a Mexican diversified industrial company with dealings from energy to chemicals to branded foods, said Monday it is looking to raise significant capital to expand its energy production footprint in Mexico, with a focus on shale natural gas. Read More

Eagle Materials Nearly Doubles Frack Sand Capacity on CRS Acquisition

Dallas-based Eagle Materials Inc. has agreed to pay $225 million to buy hydraulic fracturing (fracking) sand producer CRS Proppants LLC to expand market share in the Permian Basin, Eagle Ford Shale and Midcontinent, as well as nearly double its sand capacity and reserves. Read More

Big Seven Plays to Produce 43.28 Bcf/d in November, EIA Says

Production from the seven most prolific U.S. shale and tight oil regions in November is expected to reach 43.28 Bcf/d of natural gas (up 1.4% from October ) and 5.14 million b/d of crude oil... Read More

Atlas Resource Readies Standalone E&P Following Targa-Atlas Energy $7.7B Combo

Atlas Resource Partners LP (ARP) executives plan to put a herculean effort toward demonstrating the value of the exploration and production (E&P) assets as it prepares to spin off from its parent following a merger agreement with Targa Resources Corp. Read More

Weather, Completions Gave SM Energy 3Q Production Pains

Implementation of its enhanced completion program in the Eagle Ford Shale and weather-related delays in the Williston Basin caused SM Energy Co. to turn in disappointing third quarter production results. Read More

Robust Upstream Drives Texas Industry Employment to New Record

Strong drilling, production and permitting activity drove the Texas Petro Index (TPI) to another record in September, with oil and gas industry employment hitting its highest level since the index was founded in 1995. Read More

Murphy to Redeploy More Spending to Eagle Ford

Murphy Oil Corp. is selling off $2 billion worth of stakes in Malaysia oil and gas stakes to increase capital spending in the Eagle Ford Shale, among other things. Read More

Eagle Ford Is Multi-Billion-Dollar South Texas Growth Engine

Eagle Ford Shale oil and natural gas production generated more than $87 billion in economic output for Texas last year, and that contribution to the state's economy is projected by researchers to grow to $137 billion by 2023. Read More

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