Fayetteville Shale

Fayetteville Shale
Fayetteville Overview: The Fayetteville Shale is a dry natural gas formation that is located on the Arkansas side of the Arkoma Basin. Read More

Fayetteville Counties: AR:Cleburne, Conway, Jackson, Johnson, Faulkner Read More

Fayetteville Pipelines (natural gas): CenterPoint Energy, Fayetteville Express, Mississippi River Transmission, NGPL, Ozark, Texas Eastern Transmission, Texas Gas Transmission, Trunkline Read More

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

ARTICLES

BHP Plans to Sell Its Fayetteville Shale Assets

Australia-based BHP Billiton Ltd. is putting its Fayetteville Shale assets on the sales block, leaving a multi-year misadventure in Arkansas behind it as the company's petroleum business focuses on higher-value U.S. liquids production. Read More

Fayetteville Still Powering Southwestern, But Marcellus Coming on Strong

The Fayetteville Shale delivered its highest quarterly production results ever for Southwestern Energy Co... Read More

Ozark Seeks to Abandon Some of Its Arkansas System

Flattening gas production from the Fayetteville Shale and other pipeline infrastructure in the region has prompted Ozark Gas Transmission LLC to repurpose... Read More

Calumet Acquires Specialty Oilfield Solutions for $30M

Calumet Specialty Products LP said it has acquired substantially all of the assets of one of its competitors, privately-held Specialty Oilfield Solutions Ltd. (SOS), in a cash deal valued at $30 million. Read More

Fayetteville, Marcellus Again Help Southwestern to Record Quarter

The Fayetteville and Marcellus shales continued driving gains for Southwestern Energy Co. in the second quarter, giving it cause to increase its capital expenditures for those positions and a new venture in Colorado's Niobrara formation. Read More

Fayetteville, Marcellus Drive Southwestern to Record Production

With strong performance in both the Fayetteville and Marcellus shales, Houston-based Southwestern Energy Co. set a number of records during the first quarter. Read More

BP Takes Up Gauntlet in U.S. Onshore

With one-third of its global energy reserves in the U.S. onshore, BP plc is preparing to do battle with shale-focused independents by separating... Read More

Old Fayetteville Still Faithful to Southwestern; Marcellus Blooms

Nearly 10 years on and after 3 Tcf of cumulative operated production, the Fayetteville Shale is still setting records for the play's pioneer, Southwestern Energy Co. Meanwhile, Marcellus Shale activity last year drove overall company production to record levels. Read More

Researchers Find 18 Tcf Left in Fayetteville at About $4/Mcf

The venerable Fayetteville Shale has about 38 Tcf of technically recoverable reserves left, and 18 Tcf of that can be had with gas prices near $4/Mcf, according to a study by the Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG) at The University of Texas at Austin (UT). Read More

BHP: 200,000 b/d Production from U.S. Shales in 2017

BHP Billiton's U.S. shale business will grow liquids production to 200,000 b/d in fiscal 2017, based on planned annual investment of $4 billion, while the company's total onshore U.S. production reaches 500,000 boe/d over the same period, Tim Cutt, president of the BHP's petroleum and potash business said in Houston Tuesday. Read More

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Fayetteville Shale Gallery

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