Shale plays first come to mind when one considers unconventional resources. These unconventional resource plays may yield natural gas, gas condensates, and crude oil. Some of the more noteworthy shale plays in North America include the Barnett, Haynesville, Marcellus, Eagle Ford, Fayetteville, Woodford, Bakken, Niobrara, Horn River, and Utica formations. Tight gas, coalbed methane, oil sands, and heavy oil are non-shale unconventional resources.
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XTO to buy BNK's Oklahoma Woodford shale gas assets
Mar 17, 2013
ExxonMobil Corp.’s XTO Energy Inc. subsidiary will buy Woodford shale gas assets in Tishomingo field in south-central Oklahoma from BNK Petroleum Inc., Camarillo, Calif., for $147.5 million. |
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China shale gas challenges match its potential, expert suggests
Mar 15, 2013
China faces significant geologic, development, transportation, and bureaucratic challenges if it expects to fully exploit its shale gas resources, even though they’re probably greater than those in the US, an IHS CERA expert said. |
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Rosetta to buy Permian basin assets from Comstock
Mar 15, 2013
Rosetta Resources Inc. is entering the Permian basin with plans to buy assets from Comstock Resources for $768 million, subject to customary closing adjustments. |
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Cuadrilla delays UK Bowland shale work for environmental impact assessment
Mar 14, 2013
Cuadrilla Resources Ltd. plans to delay plans to start hydraulic fracturing in a Bowland basin shale project in Lancashire, UK, until 2014 to give the company time to get an environmental impact assessment (EIA) for some exploration wells, Cuadrilla Chief Executive Francis Egan said. |
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CNPC to buy stake in Eni's gas field offshore Mozambique
Mar 14, 2013
China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) is acquiring a stake in a natural gas field offshore Mozambique in Area 4 from Eni SPA for $4.2 billion. The companies also signed a joint study agreement covering Rongchang shale gas block in China. |
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The Barnett shale in north-central Texas lies in the Fort Worth Basin. Discovered in the 1950s, the Barnett was not commercially viable until the 1980s. Some geologists believe the formation could hold 30 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. A significant part of the drilling has occurred in the Fort Worth metro area, and Chesapeake Energy actually secured rights to drill beneath the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
Drilling in the Barnett shale intensified in the past decade as modern horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing techniques were perfected for drilling in shale. Devon Energy, Chesapeake Energy, XTO Energy, and EOG Resources are among the larger players in the Barnett shale. Two years ago, 70% of all US gas shale production came from the Barnett, but that percentage of the total has been declining as production has risen in other plays.
UT study forecasts reliable supply from Barnett shale through 2030
Mar 11, 2013
A new study of the Barnett shale foresees reliable supply with slowly declining production through the year 2030, said the Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG) at the University of Texas at Austin and financed by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a New York philanthropic grant-making institution. |
UT study forecasts reliable supply from Barnett shale through 2030
Feb 28, 2013
A new study of the Barnett shale foresees reliable supply with slowly declining production through the year 2030, said the Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG) at the University of Texas at Austin and financed by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a New York philanthropic grant-making institution. |
PNR discontinues divesting Barnett shale properties
Jan 30, 2013
Pioneer Natural Resources Co. (PNR) discontinued efforts to divest its properties in the Barnett shale saying that several bids were received during December but none matched the value PNR places on the assets. |
Midstream Copano to complement KMEP’s larger operations
Jan 30, 2013
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (KMEP), Houston, will purchase Copano Energy LLC, also of Houston, for about $5 billion. |
Accenture: US shale gas operations offers lessons for other countries
Jan 3, 2013
Countries embarking on shale gas development worldwide stand to benefit from lessons learned in US shale gas operations and water management, according to a recent report from Accenture. |
Marble Falls horizontal oil play developing in Fort Worth basin
Nov 5, 2012
At about the time in the mid-20th century that the Fort Worth basin of North Central Texas was being abandoned by the major oil companies as a worn-out backwater area, a young man named George Mitchell began drilling there for Pennsylvanian-age Atokan (aka Boonesville Bend) sandstones and conglomerates. |
Marble Falls yields Jack County's most productive well
Nov 5, 2012
The early Pennsylvanian Marble Falls formation has recently been determined to be a fractured carbonate reservoir much like the famous Barnett shale. |
Total content for now with US shale holdings
Sep 26, 2012
Total SA has no plans to make any more US shale acquisitions, at least for now, because the French oil and gas company already is satisfied with its international shale oil and gas holdings, executives said. |
Pioneer Natural Resources to sell Barnett shale assets
Sep 18, 2012
Pioneer Natural Resources Co. expects to open a data room in October in its efforts to sell its assets in the Barnett shale, where Pioneer has operated since 2007. |
Barnett shale producer, processor sign asset, processing deal
Jul 24, 2012
Crestwood Midstream Partners LP, Houston, will buy from subsidiaries of Devon Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, gathering and processing assets in southwestern Barnett shale for $90 million, the companies reported. |
Atlas to acquire Titan Fort Worth Barnett shale assets
May 17, 2012
Atlas Resources Partners LP, Philadelphia, will acquire 250 bcf equivalent of proved reserves in the Barnett shale in the Fort Worth basin from Titan Operating LLC, private Fort Worth independent, for $184 million in ARP units. |
EPA drops Texas water contamination case against Range
Apr 3, 2012
The US Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn an administrative order issued to Range Resources Corp. and Range Production Co. on Dec. 7, 2010, that alleged Range polluted two water wells west of Fort Worth. |
Encana opens Shreveport LNG fleet station
Feb 28, 2012
Encana Natural Gas Inc. has opened Louisiana’s first liquefied natural gas fueling station at Frierson along Interstate 49 about 15 miles south of Shreveport. |
Shales not yet a big factor in New Mexico gas
Feb 9, 2012
New Mexico remains an important gas producing state, but shale gas exploration and production have been minimal, says an article by the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources at New Mexico Tech in Socorro. |
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Jan 30, 2012
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