The University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) released preliminary findings today for its second annual study of the impact of the Eagle Ford Shale on the Texas economy. In its first study for 2011, UTSA ...
Unlike North Texas’ Barnett Shale play, South Texas’ Eagle Ford fracking bonanza has never received the close scrutiny of fracking skeptics, researchers and regulators. Part of that is because Eagle ...
A few years ago, Glenn Hart of Houston-based Laredo Energy said he was “kind of enamored” of the Eagle Ford Shale. The company in 2009 had started drilling exploratory wells on 130,000 acres north of ...
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Gas flares in the Eagle Ford Shale burned more than 20 billion cubic feet of natural gas and released tons of pollutants into the air in the first seven months of 2014 — exceeding the total waste and ...
Canada-based oil and gas producer Baytex Energy has completed the sale of its US Eagle Ford assets for a total of $2.14bn ...
JOURDANTON — In the middle of miles of mesquite, a drilling rig pokes above the bright green treeline, searching for oil in a rock drillers have circled back to for decades. The rig working for ...
On Friday, Secretary of Energy and former Texas Governor Rick Perry traveled to San Antonio to participate in the Shale-a-Thon, the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the completion of the first ...
When the U.S. Geological Survey published its updated resource estimate for the Wolfcamp Basin in the Permian a couple of years ago, it added fresh fuel to an already major rush to the Permian. Now, ...
Eagle Ford Shale companies are looking to an old friend - the Austin Chalk, the target of the last boom in South Texas. From the late 1970s through the 1990s, the Austin Chalk was a bright spot in an ...
Who’s hot in Eagle Ford? Right now it’s Marathon Oil (US: MRO), which has earmarked $1.9 billion of it’s $5.2 billion in 2013 capital for this south Texas shale play. For Eagle Ford, we’re talking ...
SAN ANTONIO — The Eagle Ford Shale oil field had an $87 billion effect across South Texas last year — nearly equal to the San Antonio area's entire gross domestic product, according to the University ...