DENVER–The North American natural gas industry is in search of an environmental and economic solution to address significant fuel use. Because natural gas has potential for widespread applications, it ...

After a flurry of activity in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (TMS) met with some unexpected geological challenges three years ago, the persistent independent producers that stuck with the play say they ...

EVERGREEN CO.–Producers continue to shift significant budget dollars to liquids-rich plays, including high-Btu gas and crude/condensate production with high-Btu associated gas. The result is growing ...

NEW ORLEANS–With more than 70 percent of Gulf of Mexico oil production coming from wells in water depths greater than 1,000 feet, it is hard to believe deepwater wells accounted for only half of that ...

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 ...

COLLEGE STATION, TX.–The Lower Tertiary Wilcox formation the Gulf of Mexico is estimated to contain more than 25 billion barrels of oil, and there is a high degree of certainty in hydrocarbon presence ...

PITTSBURGH–Drilling fluids serve a variety of purposes, and can be formulated to serve those drilling needs that require careful balancing of often contradictory requirements. Although water-based ...

A small independent exploration company with a gargantuan acreage position in central Australia is making final preparations to spud its third test well in an unconventional formation that looks very ...

HOUSTON–Capital expenditures, personal and equipment resources, acreage lease restrictions, and market conditions all strongly influence drilling and development schedules in unconventional resource ...

To say Fieldwood Energy LLC and Venari Resources hit the ground running in 2013 would be an understatement. The two Texas-based independents may well represent the new face of Gulf of Mexico ...

TULSA–The Granite Wash is a large unconventional play stretching across the southwest Anadarko Basin in the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma. Although it has been developed for decades using vertical ...