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Barnett Shale
Barnett Overview: The Barnett Shale is considered to be the "granddaddy" of all U.S. shale plays, as it was the formation in which Mitchell Energy & Development first successfully implemented the technology necessary to unlock shale gas in the early 1990s. Read More

Barnett Counties: TX: Bosque, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Erath Read More

Barnett Pipelines (natural gas): Atmos Pipeline, Crosstex North Texas Pipeline, Energy Transfer, Enterprise Products, Gulf Crossing, NGPL, OkTex Pipeline, Tolar Hub Read More

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

ARTICLES

Texas Operator Says Oil Price Slump Could Impact Future Drilling Plans

October 22, 2014
Joe Fisher
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

October 22, 2014
Carolyn Davis
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
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Atlas Resource Readies Standalone E&P Following Targa-Atlas Energy $7.7B Combo

October 14, 2014
Carolyn Davis
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
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Robust Upstream Drives Texas Industry Employment to New Record

October 3, 2014
Joe Fisher
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
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Retrial Denied, Aruba to Appeal $2.95M Barnett 'Nuisance' Verdict

September 18, 2014
Joe Fisher
Aruba Petroleum Inc.'s motion for a new trial in a drilling/hydraulic fracturing (fracking) nuisance case has been denied by a Texas judge and the company plans to appeal the $2.95M judgment against it. Read More

Fixable Well Casings, Not Fracking, Blamed for Some Methane in Water Wells

September 16, 2014
Joe Fisher
A team of researchers from five universities has found natural gas in drinking water wells in areas of shale gas production in Pennsylvania and Texas. They blamed the gas migration, in part, on nature but also on on faulty gas well casings. Hydraulic fracturing was not the culprit, they said. Read More
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Barnett Still an Economic Barn-Burner

September 11, 2014
Joe Fisher
Among the nation's shales, the Barnett is long in tooth but not short on gas. And as it turns out, the North Texas play hasn't weakened in its ability to throw off... Read More

North America's Frack Attack Coming Back

September 3, 2014
Carolyn Davis
The Denver-Julesburg (DJ) and Permian basins, and the Utica Shale, should lead all onshore plays for horizontal fracturing (fracking) this year as drilling and completion (D&C) activity continues to escalate, according to PacWest Consulting Partners LLC. Read More
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Texas Oil and Gas Production Climbed in June, RRC Data Show

August 27, 2014
Joe Fisher
Preliminary data from the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) show that both crude oil and natural gas production in the Lone Star State climbed during June. Read More

Chesapeake Settles Another Royalties Dispute Over Barnett NatGas

August 21, 2014
Carolyn Davis
Chesapeake Energy Corp. has agreed to pay the North Texas city of Arlington $700,000 to settle a dispute over Barnett Shale-related natural gas royalties. Read More

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