Eagle Ford

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October 09, 2015
U.S. oil explorers idled rigs for a sixth week as they grapple with crude near $50/bbl.
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October 02, 2015
Encana Corp. wants to ensure the shale-oil boom keeps booming. The Canadian producer is among a growing number of companies that are restricting initial output—a process known as choking back—in basins from North Dakota to Texas.
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October 01, 2015
Somewhere amid the maze of wells that Murphy Oil Corp. has scattered across Texas’s sprawling Eagle Ford shale formation, Brett Pennington is carrying out a little experiment.
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September 22, 2015
Enterprise Products Partners has started service on its Rancho II pipeline between Sealy, Texas, and the partnership’s ECHO terminal in southeast Houston. The 88-mile, 36-in. diameter pipeline will transport various grades of crude oil, condensate and processed condensate from the Permian basin and the Eagle Ford shale.
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September 22, 2015
Alta Mesa Holdings has entered into an agreement to sell its subsidiary, Alta Mesa Eagle, which owns certain oil and gas producing properties in the Eagle Ford shale area and other assets, to EnerVest and its affiliates, for a total price of $125 million.
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September 08, 2015
Goodrich Petroleum Corporation has closed on the previously announced divestiture of the company's proved reserves and associated leasehold in the Eagle Ford shale in LaSalle and Frio Counties, Texas.
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August 26, 2015
Despite the slowdown, production growth in the Eagle Ford remains resilient as sweet spots emerge across all active sub-plays according to Wood Mackenzie's North America Key play analysis.
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August 11, 2015
The shale fields that propelled the U.S. energy boom are expected to take another step back next month as producers reduce costs in the midst of a bear market.
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July 29, 2015
Lonestar Resources, Ltd. has announced the closing of a $100 million Joint Development Agreement (JDA) with IOG Capital.
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July 29, 2015
Torgrim Reitan, who’s about to take charge of Statoil's U.S. business after serving as CFO since 2011, has one priority: improve profitability by cutting costs.
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July 27, 2015
Goodrich Petroleum Corp. has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its proved reserves and associated leasehold in the Eagle Ford shale in LaSalle and Frio Counties, Texas, for $118 million.
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July 21, 2015
The stockholders of Rosetta Resources have overwhelmingly approved the merger of Rosetta into a subsidiary of Noble Energy.
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July 08, 2015
HOUSTON -- Enterprise Products Partners has closed on its purchase of the member interests in EFS Midstream LLC from affiliates of Pioneer Natural Resources and Reliance Holding USA.
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July 06, 2015
Unimin Energy Solutions has announced the delivery of the energy industry's longest frac sand unit train.
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July 03, 2015
For the first time in almost seven months, America’s shale drillers put rigs in oil fields back to work, and they’re doing it at a lower price.
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July 02, 2015
Drillers put rigs in U.S. oil fields back to work for the first time since December, driving down crude futures on speculation that an unprecedented retreat from the country’s prolific shale formations is ending.
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June 22, 2015
Hedge funds reduced both bullish and bearish bets on oil for a fourth week as rising OPEC output was met with forecasts for a contraction in U.S. supply.
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June 19, 2015
Twin Eagle Resource Management, LLC announced Thursday the acquisition of a 100% interest in StarMex Big Wells, LLC, a 42-mile crude oil gathering system pipeline in the Eagle Ford shale region that connects to the major long-haul pipelines in the Gardendale area. StarMex Big Wells will be renamed Twin Eagle Gardendale Pipeline, LLC.
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June 15, 2015
HOUSTON -- Halliburton’s Completion Tools business line, a long-standing industry leader in total composite plug technology, has introduced the Illusion frac plug, the only fully dissolvable frac plug on the market.
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June 08, 2015
The shale oil boom that turned the U.S. into the world’s largest fuel exporter and brought $3 gasoline back to America’s pumps is grinding to a halt.
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May 25, 2015
Twin Eagle Sand Logistics, a subsidiary of Twin Eagle Resource Management, has landed its first 130 car frac sand unit train at Mission Rail in Elmendorf, Texas, which is in the heart of the Eagle Ford shale.
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