State and federal policy and regulatory decisions affecting operators in Texas’ oil and gas fields are made miles away, but the repercussions of distant decisions are acutely felt at home, says Hunter ...

HOUSTON–Even with the unprecedented and ongoing success of plays such as the Bakken, Eagle Ford, Marcellus and Wolfcamp, the industry has only scratched the surface of the tremendous potential of ...

As always, blockbuster Permian Basin deals are creating opportunities for far more than just the acquiring company. The repercussions of one of the largest—ExxonMobil’s acquisition of Pioneer Natural ...

As crude oil prices continue to climb, South Texas operators are zeroing in on new horizons in the Eagle Ford Shale and revisiting a formation once thought to be an industry classic: the Austin Chalk.

DENVER–The law doesn’t stop at the county line and geology doesn’t change according to city limits. The same formations that hold oil and gas accumulations in the subsurface far beneath pastures, corn ...

HOUSTON–Seneca Resources completed a group of Marcellus Shale horizontal wells in sequential order with preplanned fracture and reservoir diagnostics to better understand completion and stimulation ...

Long before it became the 46th state, oil was discovered in Oklahoma by happenstance while drilling for brine to extract salt–a fundamental necessity of pioneer life. Nearly 160 years later, the ...

HOUSTON–Well bore ballooning or breathing during drilling has become a greater challenge in horizontal resource plays. Ballooning is a formation anomaly whereby pumped fluids’ circulating friction ...

On a hydraulic fracturing job site, the sand king is a critical piece of machinery at the heart of the stimulation operation. It “feeds the beast” by taking proppant from an endless cavalcade of ...

HOUSTON–When golfing great Bobby Jones won all four major golf championships in 1930, a writer for the New York Sun quipped that Jones had “stormed the impregnable quadrilateral of golf.” Today, we ...

According to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s annual report on oil and gas activity, operators produced 6.1 trillion cubic feet from the Marcellus and Utica in 2018–the most ...

Tight oil plays may have made the Permian Basin a global powerhouse over the past decade, but natural gas is playing a growing role in its present and its future. Driven by associated gas volumes ...