Eagle Ford
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August 03, 2016
Newfield Exploration is to divest substantially all of its assets in Texas for combined net after tax proceeds of nearly $390 million, subject to customary purchase price adjustments.
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July 21, 2016
The number of dormant crude and natural gas wells in the U.S. stopped growing in the first quarter—and may all but disappear in the nation’s biggest oil field should prices hold steady.
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June 14, 2016
Liberty Oilfield Services, a privately held pressure pumping company, has completed its acquisition of Sanjel Corporation's U.S. assets.
Article
June 2016
Alternative approach cuts NPT and reduces casing string requirements in weak, depleted horizons.
Article
June 2016
Expanding the boundaries of ball-drop technology has led to a simple, yet effective design for reducing completion time and improving operational efficiency.
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May 25, 2016
The heart of the DJ basin, Weld County, exhibits the most commercial fraclog with an average completion cost per barrel of $4.70, according to a study by Rystad Energy.
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May 19, 2016
Hawkwood Energy’s wholly owned subsidiary Hawkwood Energy East Texas, an independent primarily focused in East Texas, has acquired producing and non-producing assets primarily in Leon and Madison counties in Texas.
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May 17, 2016
EnerVest has announced new acquisitions in the Eagle Ford shale.
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May 12, 2016
Newfield Exploration Co. has hired two investment banks to find buyers for its acreage in Texas’s Eagle Ford basin and other oil plays as it seeks to focus on Oklahoma’s Anadarko region.
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February 17, 2016
HOUSTON -- Noble Energy has set this year’s capital budget at $1.5 billion, which is about 50% lower than last year.
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February 17, 2016
Saudi Arabia and Russia have taken the first step to stem the slide in oil prices. There’s just one problem: If they are successful—and that’s a big if—the wildcatters of Texas, Oklahoma and North Dakota are waiting to pounce.
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February 12, 2016
Railroad Commissioner Christi Craddick pointed to the positive impact Texas and U.S. oil producers will see as open crude oil markets increase demand for lighter, sweeter U.S. shale oil in keynote remarks at the North American Prospect Expo’s (NAPE) Global Business Conference in Houston earlier this week.
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January 27, 2016
Three major U.S. shale oil companies have slashed their 2016 capital spending plans more than expected in a bid to survive $30/bbl oil prices, with one of them saying prices would need to rise more than 20% just to turn a profit.
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January 12, 2016
Oil bulls suffering with the lowest prices since 2003 got a glimmer of hope as the government said the U.S. shale patch will lose as much output as an OPEC member. Unfortunately, it’s one of the small ones.
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December 11, 2015
STAVANGER, Norway -- Statoil announced a series of transactions with Repsol on Friday as the Stavanger-based company seeks to increase the number of operatorships it holds in priority areas.
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December 02, 2015
On Tuesday, November 17, Weatherford accepted the 2015 Eagle Ford Excellence Award for Environmental Stewardship from the South Texas Energy & Economic Roundtable (STEER).
Article
November 2015
While no two refracturing treatments are identical, results from pilot wells demonstrated that using a collaborative workflow can help to consistently and repeatedly recover bypassed reserves at a lower cost per BOE, compared to the development costs for new drills.
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November 16, 2015
The moon was a waning crescent sliver Sept. 9 when a man emerged from an oil tanker, sidled up to a well outside Cotulla, Texas, and siphoned off almost 200 bbl.
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October 09, 2015
U.S. oil explorers idled rigs for a sixth week as they grapple with crude near $50/bbl.
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October 02, 2015
Encana Corp. wants to ensure the shale-oil boom keeps booming. The Canadian producer is among a growing number of companies that are restricting initial output—a process known as choking back—in basins from North Dakota to Texas.
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October 01, 2015
Somewhere amid the maze of wells that Murphy Oil Corp. has scattered across Texas’s sprawling Eagle Ford shale formation, Brett Pennington is carrying out a little experiment.
