July 2012
Features
Shale Tech: Eagle Ford rig count down; operators cautiously bullish as permits, new wells soar
Firmly etched in Richard Stoneburner’s psyche is Oct. 11, 2008. On that doubly memorable Saturday, while the University of Texas aficionado was watching his football team dismantle then number-one-ranked Oklahoma University in their annual grudge match, word came down that the textbook geological evaluation of a young South Texas shale that he helped orchestrate had, likewise, delivered a winner.
