Archive for July, 2008

U.S. Has Enough Natural Gas Supplies 100 years

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

UPDATE:Chesapeake CEO Cites Abundance To Promote Natural Gas
CNNMoney.com - 12 hours ago
He was referring to fields known as the Haynesville Shale, the Marcellus Shale and the Barnett Shale. A relatively new technique known as horizontal …

Devon Energy is a Fabulous Company

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Drill, Drill, Drill: My Interview with Devon Energy CEO Larry Nichols
CNBC, Englewood Cliffs - 18 hours ago
The incredible Barnett Shale on top of Dallas-Fort Worth is America’s biggest natural gas find. Here to tell us about this really great story is Larry …

Challenge Natural Gas Drilling Inside Fort Worth

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Just Say Whoa
FWWeekly, TX - 20 hours ago
Linda Clark, who represented the Ryan Place Neighborhood Association at the meeting, said she was initially supportive of drilling in the Barnett Shale. …

Barnet Shale

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Barnet Shale … It is Barnett Shale …
Barnett Shale is a massive natural gas deposit that occurs naturally deep under approximately seven counties in North Central Texas and including northeast Tarrant County. The Barnett field stretches from Dallas west approximately 5,000 square miles and produces about 1.2 billion cubic feet of natural gas a day [...]

Barnett Shale Texas

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

Barnett Shale Texas …
Drilling a horizontal well into the targeted portion of the shale is relatively quick, averaging about 15 days. The initial two horizontal wells were drilled to a measured depth in the targeted Huron Shale of approximately 6,400 feet, which included a lateral section of approximately 2,500 feet. Drilling activity has increased between [...]

Barnett Shale Gas

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Barnett Shale Gas …
Barnett shale gas will be assessed after mapping �sweet spots� and outlying areas of potential, and by defining distributions of drainage (cell) size and cell estimated ultimate recovery. An example of a Barnett �sweet spot� is the Greater Newark East area where thick, siliceous Barnett has reached the gas window, and overlain [...]

Barnett Shale

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Barnett Shale …
Barnett Shale is deeply fractured, with fissures that tended to be sealed by calcium carbonate. The field went undiscovered until Mitchell Energy experimented with employing large gel fracture methods to open the wells to natural gas. Barnett Shale is deeply fractured, with fissures that tended to be sealed by calcium carbonate. The field [...]

Barnett Shale Investors

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

Investors should not rely solely on the information presented. Rather, investors should use the information provided by the profiled companies as a starting point for doing additional independent research on the profiled companies in order to allow the investor to form his or her own opinion regarding investing in the profiled companies. Investors wondering how [...]

Barnett Shale Drilling

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

Drilling of the development wells is expected to commence next year. Drilling operations recently began to obtain core samples necessary to complete the FERC 7C application, which is currently anticipated to be filed in August 2008. Pending regulatory approval, the first cavern is projected to go into operation by mid 2011, with the other two [...]

Barnett Shale Gas

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

Gas in-place is the total amount of free and adsorbed gas within the Marcellus. Given a resource that is found under more than 34,000,000 acres of real estate with at least 50 feet of organic-rich section, the Marcellus Shale weighs in with more than 500 trillion cubic feet of gas in-place spread over a four [...]