Eagle Ford
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January 2019
A case study performed in the Eagle Ford has proven that tunable technology can help achieve greater efficiency gains in developing unconventional reservoirs.
Article
January 2019
Hits and misses
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January 07, 2019
Drillers in the Eagle Ford, Texas’s other shale oil patch, will likely scale back activity in 2019 as lower crude prices eat into cash flows.
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December 10, 2018
ConocoPhillips, the world’s largest independent oil producer, sees shale production growing 25% next year even as crude prices tumble, proving the industry’s resilience in volatile markets, said CEO Ryan Lance.
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October 30, 2018
Chesapeake Energy’s acquisition of WildHorse Resource Development for about $3.977 billion will add operations in the Eagle Ford shale and Austin Chalk formations of southeast Texas.
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October 30, 2018
Denbury Resources Inc. and Penn Virginia Corporation have announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which Denbury will acquire Penn Virginia in a transaction valued at approximately $1.7 billion, including the assumption of debt.
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October 03, 2018
Laredo Energy VI LP, a private-equity backed natural gas explorer in the Eagle Ford Shale of south Texas, is exploring a sale that could value the company at as much as $300 million, according to people familiar with the matter.
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October 02, 2018
National Oilwell Varco (NOV) has announced the opening of a new service center in Pleasanton, Texas. The new center, which is the ninth Quality Tubing facility of its kind, is strategically located to service coiled tubing customers in the Eagle Ford shale play.
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August 31, 2018
Penn Virginia Corp. has reached out to potential buyers including Hilcorp Energy Co. and WildHorse Resource Development Corp. ahead of a sale process slated to start next month, according to people familiar with the matter.
Article
July 2018
The Eagle Ford is enjoying a comeuppance, of sorts. Once left to pick up Permian basin leftovers, the unconventional elder has emerged as a veritable hedge against the bottleneck-induced price differentials of its high-flying neighbor to the immediate west.
News
July 06, 2018
Sumitomo Corporation's Representative Director, President and CEO, Masayuki Hyodo, is pleased to announce that subsidiary company, Summit Discovery Resources II LLC has reached an agreement with IOG Gonzales 1835 LLC, an entity managed by IOG Capital, LP, Covington Equity Investments LLC and 1836 Resources, LLC to acquire certain producing Eagle Ford properties in South Texas.
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June 22, 2018
The Eagle Ford Group of Texas contains estimated means of 8.5 Bbbl of oil, 66 Tcf of natural gas, and 1.9 Bbbl of natural gas liquids, according to a new assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey. This estimate consists of undiscovered, technically recoverable resources in continuous accumulations.
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June 14, 2018
The next frontier for U.S. oil’s resurgence may come on familiar terrain.
Article
June 2018
Predictive proxy model uses data analytics, reservoir characterization to streamline completion optimization
Article
May 2018
The ascension of dual-activity rig floors, which enable different operations to be conducted simultaneously in parallel, is credited with helping reduce offshore well delivery time.
Article
April 2018
An example of a cooperative relationship was demonstrated when Ulterra, a producer of PDC drill bits, and a large independent E&P company—operating in the Eagle Ford shale—combined forces to examine ways to improve performance.
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April 10, 2018
U.S. oil and gas producers expect their borrowing ability to increase over the next few months, leaving them open to invest in new shale assets, particularly the Eagle Ford in Texas.
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March 28, 2018
Pioneer Natural Resources Company has announced that it has signed a purchase and sale agreement with Sundance Energy, Inc. to sell approximately 10,200 net acres in the western portion of Pioneer’s Eagle Ford shale acreage position for $102 million, subject to normal closing adjustments.
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March 2018
Recycling produced water cuts disposal costs
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February 06, 2018
Emerald Bay Energy Inc. announced that the Company moved a service rig on location today to perforate the Eagle Ford formation in the Kuhn 3 well at the Company’s Wooden Horse property in Southwest Texas.
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September 26, 2017
If Texas’s Permian basin is Exhibit A for the U.S. oil boom that refuses to die, then the Eagle Ford, a smaller shale patch some 400 mi to the east, represents all those places that have been left behind.


