Texas Oil and Gas - News/Information - 11.20.2011

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Texas Oil and Gas  -  News and Information

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 Eagle Ford Shale, Barnett Shale, Austin Chalk.. and other news.

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Eagle Ford windfall carries pluses and minuses Houston Chronicle By JENNIFER HILLER and VICKI VAUGHAN, STAFF WRITERS Morning traffic like this, on Thursday in Yorktown, is taking its toll on roads across the counties in the Eagle Ford shale play. Heavy trucks are tearing up the roads and bridges, and keeping older ... See all stories on this topic »

Coastal Bend business news: 11.20.11 Corpus Christi Caller Times Crow, his son, Dos, and former business associate Sergio Ibanez started Rafter C Services, a trucking company involved in Eagle Ford Shale drilling activity. Dos Crow will now run the company. Crow stepped down last week from his post as president of ... See all stories on this topic »

Cramer's Mad Money - 5 Earnings To Watch (11/18/11) Seeking Alpha EOG is the top producer in the Bakken and Eagle Ford shales. In fact, its assets in the Eagle Ford are worth the entire value of the company, which Cramer thinks should be valued at 42% above its current level. The company reported a solid quarter and ... See all stories on this topic »

People in Business Houston Chronicle Matt Arceneaux has been named technical sales representative at Environmental Drilling Solutions and will be responsible for managing existing client relations while advancing the company's expanding services in the Eagle Ford shale region. ... See all stories on this topic »

Case may put landowners on firmer footing in pipeline battles Houston Chronicle But Mann thinks the pipeline disputes will likely be less contentious in South Texas than they have been in the Barnett Shale play in North Texas. He said he has one client putting a pipeline through three South Texas counties, for instance, ... See all stories on this topic »

Oil report 11/20/2011 ReporterNews.com 1 on the Alex Fambro lease, 17 miles northwest of Stephenville, in the Fambro (Marble Falls), Newark East (Barnett Shale) and Wildcat fields. Total depth: 4100'. Location: 2453' FNL and 1318' FEL of the W. Graham survey. Abstract No. 288. Status No. ... See all stories on this topic »

An inside look at fracking a well Denver Post Still, as oil and gas development approaches more developed areas in Pennsylvania, New York, Texas and the Front Range, fracking has become controversial. Environmental and community groups raised concerns about its safety, the toxicity of ingredients ... See all stories on this topic »

Oil/Gas Companies Pay to Keep Courthouse Open Overtime Wheeling News Register On two different days of the week and a half day on Saturday, the recorder's office stays open to accommodate abstractors from the Permian Oil of Fort Worth, Texas serving as a broker for XTO, a subsidiary of Mobil Exxon. "We're open two evenings ... See all stories on this topic »

Mills: Energy policy limits job production, stifles economy Times Record News During the same period here in Texas better than half the new jobs created in the state can be traced directly and indirectly to the oil and gas industry. Exploration and production-related businesses account for 10 percent of our total economic ... See all stories on this topic »

Canada: Dismayed by US Reaction, Nation Turns to Asia for Oil, Gas Deal The Ledger Approving the Keystone XL oil pipeline to transport Canadian crude to refineries in Texas from Alberta's oilsands was a "no brainer," Prime Minister Stephen Harper said earlier. He even predicted it would be approved by the end of the year and ... See all stories on this topic »

Gas company whistle-blower details spills, errors Scranton Times-Tribune On a bright fall day in 2008, Scott Ely arrived at the natural gas well a few hundred feet from his home to find work strangely stilled. His fellow employees of Cabot Oil and Gas Corp.'s drilling subsidiary were watching the only thing moving: a huge ... See all stories on this topic » Scranton Times-Tribune

Historical commission prepares marker for offshore oil derricks Kilgore News Herald Offshore drilling on the Sabine River began in the early 1930s when oil investors leased the riverbed from the state during the days of the East Texas Oil Boom. Towers of steel and concrete loomed over the shoreline for decades until time and rust ... See all stories on this topic »

KBR eyes Iraq business with Turkish firm SteelGuru Hürriyet Daily reported that KBR, a Texas based engineering and construction company, is seeking partnerships with Turkish firms to build refineries in oil and gas rich Iraq. Mr Roy Oelking group president said that the company, which has already ... See all stories on this topic »

Shell 'Ho-Ho' reversal moves forward Houma Courier Don Briggs, president of the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association said the decision is a sign the domestic energy industry is back on track. “The reason they want to do it is because we have more production coming on line, especially all the new ... See all stories on this topic »

Parabolic SAR Sell Signals - SJT, SKH, SMP, SNA, SPN Retirement Planning It focuses on serving the drilling-related needs of oil and gas companies through its drilling products and services segment, and the production-related needs of oil and gas companies through its subsea and well enhancement, drilling products and ... See all stories on this topic »

CPS lakes act as buffer in drought San Antonio Express Kent Zammit, a senior program manager with EPRI, said the institute has looked at dry cooling, hybrid systems of wet and dry and the feasibility of using “degraded water” from oil and gas drilling. None is a panacea, he said. Dry cooling is expensive ... See all stories on this topic »

We have enough energy if we plan to use it wisely Muncie Star Press The good news is technology has been developed in recent years, referred to as "fracking," that can, at a profit, extract the oil and gas from the shale formations. This extraction is in its infancy, but it has proven it can turn into one of the ... See all stories on this topic »

Nerves still on edge over Europe Nashua Telegraph The purchaser – Enbridge Inc. – plans to reverse the direction of the flow to send more oil to the world's largest refinery complex along the Gulf Coast. To the uninformed, that might seem to be a good thing, because it would reduce oil and gas prices. ... See all stories on this topic »

As It Stands: Federal study reveals 'fracking' safety concerns Times-Standard In a time when jobs are desperately needed, unlocking massive supplies of oil and clean-burning natural gas from dense deposits of shale is a financial boon. Fracking has been used in more than 1 million US wells and has produced more than 7 billion ... See all stories on this topic »

Keystone line delay shows feds have lost their marbles Anchorage Daily News None of that is good: This is an oil-fired nation. No, we should not abandon clean-energy research but nothing is going to change immediately. What do we do until new technology is developed? You can stuff only so many bugs into a gas tank. ... See all stories on this topic »

Moved Above Upper Price Channel - AWR, BTH, COY, EPD, EXP Retirement Planning Enterprise Products Partners LP (Enterprise) is a North American midstream energy company providing a range of services to producers and consumers of natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), crude oil, refined products and certain petrochemicals. ... See all stories on this topic »

Two sides of the state's drilling divide Buffalo News John Holko, who runs Lenape Resources, an oil and gas drilling company in Alexander, said he's heard from plenty of landowners like Robinson, anxious for the chance to squeeze some extra cash out of their property by striking a deal to put wells on ... See all stories on this topic » Buffalo News

Don't trust the ODNR or Ohio's EPA to regulate the fracking industry Mansfield News Journal It's difficult to say what is exactly in the toxic fluids because each oil company has its own mixture and they've resisted government attempts to make this public. This fluid breaks or "fracks" rock formations, releasing oil and natural gas. ... See all stories on this topic »

Fake Subsidy and Fuel Subsidy (II) THISDAY Live There are about 78 litres of petrol in every barrel of crude oil (source: Texas Oil and Gas Association). Our four refineries have a combined capacity of 445000 barrels per day. If, therefore, they are working at 100 per cent capacity, the petrol yield ... See all stories on this topic »

Office of Fossil Energy: Who is Charles McConnell? AllGov A longtime energy industry executive, Charles D. McConnell was nominated in July by President Barack Obama to take over the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy, which is the US government's lead office for coal, natural gas and oil ... See all stories on this topic » AllGov

NYSE Hot Stocks to watch are - SVM, QEP, SYK, SEE, SFD Retirement Planning QEP Resources, Inc. (QEP), formerly Questar Market Resources, Inc., is an independent natural gas and oil exploration and production company. QEP is a holding company with three lines of business: gas and oil exploration and production, midstream field ... See all stories on this topic »

Stocks in a New Downtrend (Aroon) - GGT, GMXR, GOM, GOV, HNZ Retirement Planning GMX Resources Inc. (GMX) is a pure play independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company. The Company is focused on the development of Haynesville/Bossier Shale and Cotton Valley Sands in the Sabine Uplift of the Carthage, ... See all stories on this topic »

Smart Dividend Investors Should Consider These 5 Stocks Seeking Alpha The Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM) is the largest integrated oil and gas company in the world. It is an incredible business, and it is run like a machine. After all, XOM represents a relic of the Rockefeller era. XOM pays a 2.4% dividend, ... See all stories on this topic »

Candidates emphasize cutting taxes, rules DesMoinesRegister.com Every candidate has called for expanded oil-and-gas drilling in Alaska, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, as well as the Gulf of Mexico, the outer continental shelves and the western United States, and nearly all say reducing existing ... See all stories on this topic »

On Tim DeChristopher's Call to Kick Obama Out PlanetSave.com He has been beatified as a saint in the Church of Earthalujah by the Reverend Billy and convicted as a felon by the United States Government. Each of those honors were earned by disrupting a Utah BLM oil and gas auction in December 2008, ... See all stories on this topic »

Tax credit for wind industry on the table in Washington Quad City Times Grassley said the tax credit makes sense for the industry, feeding more development and more jobs. "Conventional energy sources, including oil and gas, enjoy countless tax incentives and many of them are permanent law," he said. See all stories on this topic »

Will you stop using plastic bags? Pacific Daily News If you look at the make-up of plastic bags, a cocktail of crude oil and natural gas, you might understand why its decomposition process takes so long. During the 450-year span, a plastic bag is broken down into smaller and smaller pieces by the sun and ... See all stories on this topic »

Volcanoes, Meteorite Impacts Doomed Dinosaurs Fars News Agency Keller worked with PK Bhowmick, H. Upadhyay, A. Dave, AN Reddy and BC Jaiprakash, scientists with India's government-operated Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, which owns the sediment cores. Also included is Thierry Adatte, a geologist with the ... See all stories on this topic »