Barnett Shale

Texas Crude Production Climbing, NatGas Down From Year-Ago Levels

Texas crude oil and natural gas production statistics continue to reflect producers’ preference for oil over less-lucrative natural gas... Read More

Texas Adopts Quake-Minded Injection Well Rules

The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) on Tuesday adopted rule changes that are intended to more closely regulate drilling waste disposal wells in areas of the state where there has been or could be heightened seismic activity. Read More

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 natural gas oversupply may not be the big story when the domestic exploration and production 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 how they may impact drilling plans into 2015, energy analysts said this week. 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

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

Retrial Denied, Aruba to Appeal $2.95M Barnett 'Nuisance' Verdict

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

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

Barnett Still an Economic Barn-Burner

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

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