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Barnett Shale ~ Texas Oil and Gas - News/Information/Opinion - Updated 10.25

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 Updated 10.25
Fountain Quail introduces new frac water system
Bizjournals.com
Fountain Quail of Roanoke manufactures equipment to treat water used in the hydraulic fracturing of the Barnett Shale. Roanoke-based Fountain Quail Water Management LLC announced Tuesday that it has developed a new portable system for treating the ...
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Texas EPA Czar Wages War on Barnett Shale
Dallas Blog (blog)
Natural gas drillers are fleeing the Barnett Shale region in Texas . The Houston Chronicle reports that, “ Texas drilling is at a seven-year low in the North Texas natural gas fields … drilling pace slackens in the Barnett Shale. ...
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High water use, contamination top list of shale gas concerns: Memo
Montreal Gazette
By Mike De Souza, Postmedia News October 24, 2011 Floor hands work a drill bit at the Barnett shale field in Texas where hydraulic fracturing is used to force natural gas out of the ground. OTTAWA — Water use and contamination are at the top of the ...
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IR, TBT, XL, CHK, ABX - Notable Stocks with Volume at NYSE
Health Talk & You
The Company focuses on disc overing and developing unconventional natural gas and oil fields onshore in the United States, primarily in the Barnett Shale in the Fort Worth Basin of north-central Texas, the Haynesville and Bossier Shales in northwestern ...
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Miss or Not, Schlumberger Packs a Wallop
Motley Fool
Finally, the Reservoir Production group, which expanded its revenues by 47% year-on-year, combined combined with Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK ) on a Barnett Shale project wherein the United States' unconventional drilling leader became the first to ...
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Encana Q3 net earnings down
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
... of about $800 million, and we are well advanced in the sale process for our midstream assets in the Cutbank Ridge area. The sales process for our North Texas Barnett shale assets is also moving ahead," said Randy Eresman, Encana's President & CEO.
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Quiksilver´s new investment vehicle to solve debts
FashionUnited.co.uk
Quiksilver has announced the creation of a master limited partnership with a portion of the company's Barnett Shale assets. The new MLP will be called Quiksilver Production Partners and should allow the company to pay down half of its existing public ...
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Shale gas recoveries
Oil & Gas Journal
Lee said, "We have not found a single case with decent data in which the method failed and it works in the Bakken oil shales, Barnett gas shales, and elsewhere." The newsletter further adds Lee as explaining that although some companies have publicly ...
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Darren Atkins edges to win West Midlands League triumph
British Cycling
The course proved to be technically challenging with the varied terrain of fast shale pathways, tarmac roadways, dry dusty woodlands and strength sapping meadowland. With a number of clubs with strong Youth Development schemes within the region the ...
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Energy Transfer Partners signs midstream deal with XTO
Dallas Business Journal
Energy Transfer Partners (NYSE: ETP) announced that it will build a new processing plant in the Barnett Shale and a 117-mile pipeline in Oklahoma as part of a deal with Fort Worth-based XTO Energy . Dallas-based ETP said Thursday that it has signed a ...
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Rhino Resource Partners LP Announces Third Quarter Distribution and Earnings ...
Sacramento Bee
... Wexford and its affiliated companies are active owners/developers of acreage in a number of the domestic US conventional and unconventional oil and gas plays, with current and former positions in the Permian Basin, Bakken, Barnett Shale, Niobrara, ...
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Wichita Falls firm buys Westworth Village office building
Fort Worth Star Telegram (blog)
A two-story office building next to Hawks Creek Golf Course built by the Westworth Village Redevelopment Authority has been sold to a Wichita Falls-based oil and natural gas company that is active in the Barnett Shale. Bill Sullivan, a spokesman for ...
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Energy Transfer, XTO Ink Woodford, Barnett Midstream Deal
NGI's Shale Daily (subscription)
Energy Transfer Partners LP (ETP) said Thursday that it has made an agreement to provide natural gas gathering, processing and transportation services in the Woodford and Barnett shales for XTO Energy Inc., a subsidiary of ExxonMobil Corp. ...
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Encana to Get Oily in 2012
NGI's Shale Daily (subscription)
Still on the market are Barnett Shale properties in North Texas, assets in portions of the Jean Marie play in northeast British Columbia, and the Carrot Creek assets in Alberta's Deep Basin. In addition Encana continues to work to secure a joint ...
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XTO Energy Expands Offices In Tyler
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
XTO is headquartered in Fort Worth and has six divisions, including offices in Tyler, Farmington, NM, Oklahoma City, Midland, Fort Worth for the Barnett Shale and Pittsburg. XTO has a total of about 3500 employees, Kirby said. ...
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Johnson County receives upgrade to bond rating
Cleburne Times-Review
Johnson County benefits from its proximity to DFW and location within the region containing the Barnett Shale natural gas reserves, according to the Fitch rating report. “Despite the recent decrease in the county gas drilling, the county has a stable ...
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Updated 10.14

Money, jobs linked to Barnett Shale production matter - greatly
Fort Worth Star Telegram
By Mel LeBlanc The juxtaposition of back-to-back Star-Telegram opinion pieces last week encapsulates irony too seductive to let pass. Mike Norman's suggestion in his Friday column (See: "Put the drilling dollars and jobs together and what does it add ...
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Fort Worth Star Telegram
WL Plastics opens renovated plant
Times Record News
Fink said Bowie's location near one of the company's major markets, the gathering of oil and gas, also played a role in the expansion as the location is not only close to the Barnett Shale, but expanding in South Texas. State Sen. ...
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Encana teams with Pembina Pipeline to boost liquids output
Calgary Herald
Encana, which has been looking to divest $1 billion to $2 billion worth of non-core assets, sold some natural gas midstream assets in Colorado and its Barnett Shale natural gas assets in North Texas to cut back on spending and cope with weak natural ...
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Study: Johnson County to see more drilling
Cleburne Times-Review
By John Harden/reporter3@trcle.com Despite the decrease in gas drilling in Johnson County, county residents shouldn't expect drilling to remain stagnant, according to a Barnett Shale study conducted and released by the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce. ...
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Calvin Tillman After The Storm
FWWeekly
We were also fortunate that we lived close enough to the edge of the Barnett Shale, that we could move off of the shale without needing to switch jobs, and maintain key relationships. Many are not in a similar position, for them to move off of their ...
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Industry Brief
NGI's Shale Daily (subscription)
Summit Midstream's assets include gathering, compression and dehydration facilities in the core of the Barnett Shale. It recently acquired South Piceance Basin assets in the Rockies from an Encana Corp. subsidiary (see Daily GPI, Oct. 12).
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Natural Gas Investing: Reinforce Your Portfolio With These 'Rock-Solid ...
ETF Daily News
The company is the largest natural gas producer in the Barnett shale and has strengthened its dominant position here with liquids-rich assets in the Permian Basin. Devon has a well-defined program for increasing production. ...
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ETF Daily News
President blind to opportunity
Waterbury Republican American
By the same token, 5500 wells at Texas' Fort Worth basin are pumping natural gas from Barnett Shale, which can generate $35 billion for the owners and $100 billion for the state's economy, according to geology.com. Yet the administration continues to ...
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Summit Midstream gets total $145m investment from GE
Dallas Morning News (subscription) (blog)
Summit develops pipelines and related infrastructure North American production areas, including the North Texas Barnett Shale. Try clearing your cache: In Firefox, go to Tools / Clear Recent History. Check the "Cache" box and uncheck all other boxes. ...
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NYTEX Energy Holdings, Inc. Announces 3rd Quarter, 4th Quarter, and Full Year ...
PR Newswire (press release)
FDF provides services to oilfield clients in thirty-nine states, and includes the Marcellus, Bakken, Barnett, Haynesville, Fayetteville and Bossier natural gas shale plays. NYTEX Petroleum, Inc. is an exploration and production company focusing on ...
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FEATURE: US' Barnett, Haynesville gas output rising even at low price
Platts
According to figures supplied by Pritchard Capital Partners, which are based on Smith International rig count figures and the investment bank's own estimates, 88 rigs were employed in the Barnett Shale at the beginning of October 2010. ...
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Tapping the Marcellus Shale Formation
Energy and Capital
As you can see, the Marcellus shale can run as deep as 9000 feet: It wasn't until the success in the Barnett shale that companies began utilizing horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing techniques in the Marcellus. Simply put, companies first ...
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GE Unit Invests in Summit Midstream, an Oil and Gas Midstream Service Provider
PR Newswire (press release)
Summit Midstream's assets include gathering, compression, and dehydration facilities in the core of the Barnett Shale. In addition, yesterday it announced the acquisition of South Piceance Basin assets in the Rockies from an Encana Corp. subsidiary. ...
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In drought-stricken Texas the growing Eagle Ford Shale play needs water
Bizmology
Once a minor location in the North American shale scene (compared to established plays like Marcellus in Appalachia, Bakken in North Dakota, and the North Texas Barnett Shale), Eagle Ford has developed rapidly in the last few years. ...
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Chief Oil & Gas pursues gas drilling permit in Dallas, as city works on new ...
Dallas Morning News (subscription) (blog)
You may not realize this, but Chief Oil & Gas was the first company to submit a permit application to drill a Barnett Shale well in the city of Dallas. We applied for the special use permit back in 2008 which was approved on June 9, 2010. ...
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Chesapeake, Range among top Marcellus producers
Bizjournals.com (blog)
Chesapeake Energy and Range Resources are well known for their Barnett Shale operations in North Texas, but they also are among the top producers in the growing Marcellus Shale natural gas field in Pennsylvania. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, ...
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Symposium to focus on environmental challenges of oil and gas industry
Fort Worth Star Telegram
Ed Ireland, executive director of the Barnett Shale Energy Education Council, will be the emcee and moderator. Cost of the symposium, which includes lunch, is $100. Society membership is not required to attend the event, which will be limited to the ...
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Encana Agrees to Sell Colorado Assets for $590 Million to Summit
Wall Street Journal
The Dallas-based company's current operations include gathering, compression, and dehydration assets in the core of the Barnett and Marcellus shales and support for some of the largest production companies in North America, according to Summit's ...
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Enstor solicits bids for four storage facilities
Gas Business Briefing
The company notes the facility has pipeline access to the Barnett, Woodford and Haynesville shale plays and to markets in the Northeast, Southeast and the Ohio Valley. Enstor's “Freebird” storage facility, located about 110 miles east of Birmingham, ...
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Gulfmark Energy Group, Inc. Announces $55 Million Letter of Intent ...
DigitalJournal.com
Specifically, Gulfmark intends to drill vertically through the Escondido, Olmos, San Miguel, Austin Chalk and Eagleford Shale formations, inclusive of ...

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