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 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

Carrizo Buys More Eagle Ford; South Texas Play Drove 3Q Gains

Carrizo Oil & Gas Inc. has grown its Eagle Ford Shale position by 6,820 net acres to more than 81,000 and added 93 net wells to its drilling inventory of more than 915 net locations in the play through a $243 million cash deal with Eagle Ford Minerals LLC, the Houston-based company said Monday. Read More

Undeterred by Commodity Prices, Cabot Plans Robust 2015 Program With Eagle Ford Focus

Despite admitting that 2015 could be one of the toughest years yet for oil and gas prices, Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. management on Friday reaffirmed the company’s plans to grow annual production by 20-30%, with a drilling program that could eventually lean more heavily on the Eagle Ford Shale of South Texas. 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

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

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