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 Oilfields Push Devon Production Forecast 3% Higher

Devon Energy Corp. expects to achieve 14% more production this year than it did in 2013, a 3% higher forecast from a few months ago, after surpassing expectations from Texas oilfields during the third quarter. Read More

Marathon's U.S. Onshore Can Weather Price Downturn, Executives Say

Marathon Oil Corp.'s U.S. resource plays can hold their own in a low-price environment, and the company's U.S. drilling program is expected to proceed essentially unchanged from plan, executives said Tuesday. Read More

Enterprise Bakken-to-Cushing Project Facing Cheap Oil Headwinds

Lower prices for crude oil aren't doing any favors for Enterprise Products Partners LP's proposed crude pipeline from North Dakota to the Cushing, OK, hub, executives admitted Thursday. But U.S. producers have staying power even at lower oil prices because the country "...is in the middle of a production revolution," they said. Read More

ConocoPhillips Cutting Capex on Oil Prices, but 'Attractive' Returns in Eagle Ford, Bakken

ConocoPhillips, the largest independent in the United States, was the first on Thursday to announce plans to reduce capital spending to cope with the recent downturn in oil prices. Some drilling cutbacks will be made, but not within two of its best rate-of-return plays, the Eagle Ford and Bakken shales. Read More

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

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

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