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Matador Resources Company Announces Public Offering
MarketWatch (press release)
Its current operations are located primarily in the Eagle Ford shale play in south Texas and the Haynesville shale play in northwest Louisiana and east Texas. Matador intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to repay all outstanding ...
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Investopedia: 2 New Energy Plays For 2012
Kapitall Blog (blog)
Cinco Resources has a wide range of producing and prospective properties, including acreage exposed to the Eagle Ford Shale in Texas, Woodford Shale in Oklahoma and the Niobrara in the Powder River Basin. The company put the majority of its capital ...
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Kapitall Blog (blog)
Default Risk Remains Low for High Yield
Morningstar.com
Areas such as the Bakken shale, Eagle-Ford shale, and Utica shale require these new technologies and are starting to produce results. We expect this growth to continue as the US shifts toward more energy independence.
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Kinder Morgan's Brightly Blazing Future
DailyFinance
The US E&P assets are concentrated in the Eagle Ford shale of South Texas, the Haynesville shale in Texas and Louisiana, the Gulf of Mexico shelf, and the Rocky Mountains. In addition, international assets are located in Brazil and Egypt. ...
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Schlumberger Announces Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2011 Results
MarketWatch (press release)
In the Eagle Ford shale, Schlumberger Pathfinder at-bit inclination, gamma ray and imaging logging-while-drilling technology was run above a mud motor for a customer to provide reservoir images in a well with an extreme dogleg profile requiring more ...
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Union Pacific Rises to Highest Since 1980 as Profit Jumps
BusinessWeek
Chemical carloads benefited from a 46 percent surge in petroleum shipments as Union Pacific transported more crude oil from the Bakken and Eagle Ford Shale regions, according to the company's earnings conference call. “There's just a boom in drilling,” ...
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Op-Ed: Rick Perry should now plan National Day of Prayer for Rick Perry
DigitalJournal.com
The likely scenario is its perfect contentment in running roughshod over Texas, polluting its air, and now with the Eagle Ford shale play, raping the land. It's more plausible than waiting for coherency from Perry. How could Perry have possibly led a ...
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DigitalJournal.com
SigmaBleyzer: Houston shows strong growth in November
Houston Business Journal
Drilling for natural gas at the Eagle Ford Shale formation should also keep Houston's energy sector bustling with growth, the report said. The Texas jobless rate dipped to 8.1 percent, and several sectors recorded growth as consumer demand picked up in ...
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Longoria affair continues to be debated
San Antonio Express
Barber Arturo Chavarria, 62, who has been trimming locks in Three Rivers since 1970, said the Longoria affair has little relevance to the current generation that's mainly focused on making money off the Eagle Ford Shale boom. “They don't know anything ...
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Commentary: Paul's principles conflict with needs of his district
Houston Chronicle (blog)
And it's now providing the main shipping for the Eagle Ford Shale.” Paul has easily won re-election to represent the 14th Congressional District since 1997 and has earned a national following for his unwavering libertarian positions. ...
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Houston Chronicle (blog)
Three Rivers shrugs over Longoria affair
San Antonio Express
With the Eagle Ford Shale play bringing waves of truck traffic, jobs and new business to Three Rivers, Chamber of Commerce Director Murrell Foster is kept hopping with calls from companies and individuals eager to cash in. “Three Rivers is long past ...
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Victoria's housing market sees improvement, low inventory
Victoria Advocate
Max Pooley, broker with Pooley Land and Realty Co., attributed much of that growth to ongoing Eagle Ford Shale drilling. The activity brought many people to the region, he said, explaining the real estate industry really picked up within the past few ...
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Victoria Advocate
Search for oil – and engineers
Malaysia Star
Meanwhile, 20-somethings like Woner and Rohling are taking on more responsibility faster than the outgoing generation, running exploration projects in prolific shale oil plays like the Eagle Ford in Texas or the Bakken in North Dakota. ...
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Looking For The Next Big Shale Play In 2012
Seeking Alpha
Last year another state-owned Indian oil company, GAIL Ltd, bought a 20% stake in Carrizo's (CRZO) Eagle Ford acreage. California remains the number two oil producer, as Occidental Petroleum (OXY), the largest owner of Monterey Shale acreage, ...
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Eagle Ford Shale new key to SA regional prosperity
San Antonio Express
By Elizabeth Ames Jones, Guest Commentary Projections in the great report “The Economic Impact of the Eagle Ford Shale,” published last year by the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have already been revised ... upward. ...
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How to Profit from the "Shale Oil Bubble"
Money Morning
(NYSE: DVN) shale projects. And Japan's Marubeni Corp., a commodities trader, agreed to pay $1.3 billion for a stake in Hunt Oil Co.'s Eagle Ford shale property in Texas. That's a clear sign to investors that interest in shale deposits among foreign ...
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Corpus Christi Area Measurement Society Announces 2012 School and Exhibition
MarketWatch (press release)
This year's event will focus on hydrocarbon measurement technologies for both gas and liquids that are most applicable to the rapidly expanding Eagle Ford Shale play of South Texas. Many of the CCAMS board members are heavily involved in this producing ...
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Hess Presents 2012 Capital Plan
Zacks.com
Hess also plans to continue its activities in the Eagle Ford Shale in Texas and the Utica Shale in Ohio. Management has assigned almost $1.60 billion for production, which includes drilling wells at Shenzi and Llano fields in the Gulf of Mexico and at ...
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New York Could Allow Hydraulic Fracking By Year's End
International Business Times
Tunstall, who is helping to update a UTSA study on the growth and community impacts of the play's development, said he is working to help towns in several counties along the Eagle Ford Shale play in South Texas, faced with insufficient roads and ...
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International Business Times
MLPs See Growing Energy Profits From Shale
Seeking Alpha
In addition to conventional sources, its pipelines are located near many unconventional natural gas supply sources including the Haynesville Shale, Eagle Ford Shale, Barnett Shale, Bossier Sands, Fayetteville Shale and Caney Woodford Shale. ...
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Abundant Hydrocarbons Buried Underground: Out of Sight Out of Mind
OilPrice.com
By Al Fin | Tue, 17 January 2012 19:09 | 0 Bit Tooth Energy blog takes a fascinating look at petroleum creation and deposition at various depth, using the Eagle Ford shale play as an example. As a rough rule of thumb down to 15000 ft the hydrocarbon is ...
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Canaccord Genuity Maintains a 'Buy' on Rosetta Resources (ROSE); 2012: Year of ...
StreetInsider.com (subscription)
"The apparent failure of the Alberta Basin Bakken should allow the company to focus on the highly productive Eagle Ford Shale rather than a less productive play constrained by a lack of services and infrastructure." Shares of Rosetta Resources closed ...
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Canaccord Genuity Maintains a 'Buy' on Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD ...
StreetInsider.com (subscription)
Analyst, John Gerdes, said, "We remain buyers of PXD as operational momentum remains strong in the Eagle Ford Shale and Permian Spraberry Field. We are also fans of PXD's hedge book, which is one of the strongest in our coverage portfolio with ~60% of ...
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Why Qatar is a Threat to Natural Gas Prices
OilPrice.com
This is similar to the "liquids rush" that's going on in America, in plays like the Eagle Ford shale. And flies in the face of the "low prices will cure low prices" argument that some analysts are suggesting will soon boost the natgas market.
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Five Deep-Wells Shut in Ohio Following Eleven Earthquakes
OilPrice.com
In October, a similar incident occurred in South Texas when a 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck a centre point for natural gas and oil production in the Eagle Ford Shale. At that time, the correlation between pumping water back into the ground with ...
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Three major Barnett Shale producers make Fortune magazine list of best places ...
Fort Worth Star Telegram (blog)
Three major producers in North Texas' natural-gas rich Barnett Shale again have been named to the Fortune magazine list of the 100 best US companies to work for. All three companies have offices in downtown Fort Worth. Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake ...
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Global hydraulic frac market seen up 19% this year: consultant
Platts
"I'm hearing in places like the Barnett Shale, folks are going back and looking at wells done five years ago. They're realizing that we didn't get everything from everywhere," said Spears. --Starr Spencer, starr_spencer@platts.com.
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More states ordering disclosure of fracking chemicals | Philadelphia Inquirer ...
Philadelphia Inquirer
The chemical-disclosure issue has become a proxy for public apprehension with all aspects of hydraulic fracturing, a pivotal technology that has opened up vast new oil and gas reserves in recent years, radically altering the nation's energy outlook. ...
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Rhetoric over substance: Obama and the Keystone XL decision
Troy Media (blog)
Even earlier, Hewlett had paid Tides Canada to develop a strategic plan to fight oil and gas development in British Columbia. Overall, Krause reports, US foundations alone granted at least $300 million over the last decade to various environmental ...
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5 Must Own Energy Stocks For 2012
Seeking Alpha
(CHK) Specializing in the exploration, production and sale of natural gas and oil in the United States and Canada, Texas-based Quicksilver Resources Inc. has nearly 25 years of experience in the energy sector. The company has a market cap of $938.16 ...
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PRESS DIGEST - Sunday British business - Jan 22
Reuters
BP JOINS RACE FOR COVE ENERGY'S STAKE IN AFRICAN GAS FIELD BP is targeting Cove Energy, the British independent oil group put up for sale earlier this year which owns a 8.5 percent stake in the huge Rovuma gas field off the coast of Mozambique. ...
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BPC Energy Project Releases Consensus Report on Opportunities and Challenges ...
Power Engineering Magazine
A recent private study suggests that oil production from the Eagle Ford shale in South Texas could potentially meet 7.8 percent of domestic demand by 2015 at present consumption levels. "Shale oil and gas development is helping to alter America's ...
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PERMIAN BASIN DRILLING REPORT: Jan. 22, 2012
Odessa American
Charis Oil & Gas, LLC, Stansberry Trust, Concho, Reenter. >> Chesapeake Operating, Inc., Mabee C, Martin, New Drill. >> Chevron USA Inc., Lupin Txl Fee, Midland, New Drill. >> Clearfork Production, LLC, Big Max 4, Andrews, New Drill. ...
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Injection wells, earthquakes: related?
Shreveport Times
Still, northeast Texas is a prime destination because it is a "very, very old oil and gas province that's historically had oil and gas production older than in Louisiana," Welsh said. That's not to say Louisiana doesn't have its share. ...
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Pipe scheme? Company claims it has right to remove abandoned pipeline from ...
Lufkin Daily News
“We have been lied to so much by pipeline people, gas people, oil people and saltwater people that it's just like the sun coming up again for another day to us.” With oil giant BP and a Houston-based salvage company in a legal battle involving 60 miles ...
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Kathleen Turner Is Red Hot At The Geffen Playhouse
Santa Monica Mirror
Although she was born in Monterey, California, she was raised in Austin, Texas where her father was an oil and gas executive who was very authoritarian which, for someone with Molly's disposition, was probably not the most compatible trait. ...
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Council to mull three drilling requests
My West Texas
The wells would sit just within the 500 foot boundary called for in the city's oil and gas ordinance but MISD has agreed to the variance request. "RSP Permian has asked for a variance from the city ordinance to drill a well 465 feet from (the) Midland ...
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The Oil and the Glory: The Weekly Wrap -- Jan. 21, 2012
Foreign Policy (blog)
The Financial Times' Carola Hoyos writes that it may be the latter: Tehran may be forcing the current brinksmanship with the West -- including a threat to cut off oil and gas shipments to the world through the Strait of Hormuz -- as a strategy to win ...
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Foreign Policy (blog)
Sunday newspaper round-up: Big downdraft, Tobacco, Services
ShareCast
Wessex Exploration has avoided the squeeze on cash-strapped oil and gas exploration juniors. Its recent good fortune is thanks to a large offshore license area off French Guiana. September´s oil discovery there, described as “potentially ...
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MicroSeismic Company Founder Speaks Out
Wheeling Intelligencer
By CASEY JUNKINS Staff Writer , The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register MORGANTOWN - As the executive chairman and founder of the geophysical services company MicroSeismic, Peter Duncan knows a thing or two about drilling for oil and natural gas in ...
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Wheeling Intelligencer
21-inch snowfall blanketed area in 1964
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
National fear of the dependence on foreign oil resulted in the federal approval of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline in 1973, in order to capitalize on domestic oil. Gas prices rose and stations shut down because of shortages. Airman Joseph G. Gayz of Pittston ...
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Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
ELAM: The time capsule
Odessa American
This occurred in South Texas. Well nothing new under the sun, now there is exploration booming again for gas in South Texas. There is no date on the Tourist Map of Key West. This was no doubt a trip courtesy of the US Navy Reserve. ...
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How they voted: Tea Party's influence in Congress may be waning
TheNewsTribune.com
Oil-Industry Taxes: Senators on May 17 failed, 52-48, to reach 60 votes needed to advance a Democratic bill that would end certain tax breaks for the five largest oil and gas companies. A yes vote backed a bill to save the Treasury $21 billion over ten ...
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Greenhouse gas sources in Hampton Roads to close
Daily Press
Texas-basedWestern Refining Inc., which stopped refining oil in Yorktown in August 2010, announced last month it sold the 570-acre property to Plains All American. Also a Texan company, Plains All American officials said they will not reopen the ...
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Gas glut puts hole in BHP's forecasts
The Australian
... this up with a $US15bn takeover of Texas and Louisiana focused Petrohawk Energy. The big miner also plans to spend about $US60bn in the next decade increasing production to more than 1 million barrels of oil a day, or four times what it is now. ...
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Why Fracking And Other Disasters Are So Hard to Stop
OpEdNews
In the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Congress gave fracking a green light by exempting it from the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act. At the bidding of the oil and gas industry, Congress basically said, "We want this gas out of the ground by ...
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Pay close attention to Corpus Christi bayfront project
Corpus Christi Caller Times
The Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas activity is giving South Texas an economic lift. If we haven't found the answer to our shameful street conditions yet, we are at least grappling forthrightly with the issue. The steel pipe factory in Gregory is on track ...
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Will recent snow end burn ban?
Odessa American
Consider a recommendation to hire an oil and gas attorney to advise in the process of leasing the mineral rights at Odessa-Schlemeyer Field. Consider specifications on a proposal for industrial ceiling fans for the Ector County Coliseum and for the ...
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EPA supplying drinking water after fracking contamination
Alaska Dispatch
In 2009, Pennsylvania officials charged Cabot Oil & Gas, the company that drilled the wells in Dimock, with several violations it said had contributed to methane gas leaking out of the gas wells and into drinking water. For a time, Cabot supplied ...
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Alaska Dispatch
Fuel Report
Patch.com
By Dirk Langeveld Among the big oil news in the past week: President Obama's denial of the permit for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to Texas, and some in Congress continuing to push for it. Meanwhile, European Union leaders are expected ...
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Newt Gingrich Defeats Mitt Romney In South Carolina Primary
News One
Another news outlet reports that Qataris and Emiratees are the engineers now at the oil plants, turning away desperate Libyan workers. While long lines exist for Libyan drivers to get their gas, foreign troops ensure the black gold's export. ...
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News One
Grant: Behind the scenes of Rangers' 5-year plan to sign Yu Darvish
Dallas Morning News (subscription)
And it required convincing owners who came from the oil and gas business that this exercise was not mere wildcatting but was more likely to produce results. When the Rangers overhauled the organization in 2007, the big moves were to create a huge draft ...
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Starved Rock Mine Debate Brings Fracking Fracas to Illinois
Chicagoist
The practice of injecting water, sand and chemicals (or, if you are Halliburton, diesel fuel) at high pressure to release oil and natural gas from shale formations has created an energy boom all over the US To some, it's a path to jobs and energy ...
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Chicagoist
LETTERS: Foreign oil; Poor planning; Comcast complaints; Jeopardy complaints ...
Colorado Springs Gazette
As one who has researched fracking and attended local county meetings seeking to formulate regulations designed to protect Colorado Springs and the surrounding area, it has become clear to me that the state and oil/gas industry are bullying local ...
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Jobs not a priority for Obama
Hernando Today
Now we can expand that supply chain to refineries in Texas, instead of allowing it to be diverted to China. There is no way that alternative fuels will be developed in the immediate future to replace the energy we get from natural gas, coal and oil. ...
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Deep Cavern Systems Worldwide
UFODigest
It's been noted, in some accounts, that California is riddled with under water caverns that are filled with water and some that have oil or gas on top of the water. One anomalous, out of place, feature (to me since I first saw it) is the La Brea Tar ...
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UFODigest
Pulling the curtain on State Department mural's past
Washington Post
In his home state, he became famous — and a bit notorious — in 1928, when, as a 26-year-old University of Texas architecture professor, he entered a respected San Antonio art contest. His entry was called “Cotton.” It was a painting of African ...
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Exchange/Newsmakers
Savannah Morning News
Duties: Supervises six Parker's stores, monitoring daily operations and overseeing gas strategy, maintenance protocol, scheduling, inventory and evaluations. Experience: Counterman previously worked as a store manager at Parker's locations in Guyton ...
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Railroad commission opponents' money does not shake Chisum campaign
Amarillo.com
AUSTIN — Texas Railroad Commission races seldom get much attention, but it looks like this year will be one of those rare occasions, especially with Gov. Rick Perry no longer running for president. member agency that regulates the oil and gas industry ...
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Blogs 2 new results for texas oil and gas
Report: More states ordering disclosure of fracking chemicals ...
By Steve Milloy
1, Texas becomes the latest state to require drilling companies to disclose the volumes of chemicals and water they use in “fracking,” which involves the high-pressure injection of chemically treated water and sand deep underground to release entrapped oil and gas. Texas is the fifth state to require the disclosure of well-by-well data with an online public clearinghouse, FracFocus.org. Colorado, Montana, Louisiana, and North Dakota also require posting of data with FracFocus…
JunkScience.com
More on the geography of renewable energy « The Reality-Based ...
By James Wimberley
Similarly roughnecks and their communities in Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas will be pro-oil and gas, and indeed vote Republican. Up to now, the production of energy in the USA has meant fossil fuels, and has been so concentrated in a few ...
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