Dallas-Fort Worth’s energy boom is prominent factor in office market
Chesapeake and other energy companies attribute recent real estate moves to their production growth in the Barnett Shale, a massive underground natural gas …
Barnett Shale Production Growth
New US shale plays spark debate about Barnett
That field, the Barnett Shale of north Texas, has been a boon to major producers like Devon Energy Corp (DVN.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) and …
Gas drilling is a very complicated issue, there are many pros and many cons and there is a tremendous [...]
New US shale plays spark debate about Barnett
That field, the Barnett Shale of north Texas, has been a boon to major producers like Devon Energy Corp
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 [...]
Production from the play now exceeds 1.2 billion cubic feet (Bcf) a day. An estimated 1.5 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of gas has been commercially produced from the Barnett Shale. Production from the Moore #2 in Ellis County is nearly identical to the Moore #1 well (approximately 1.5 Mmcfe per day) but was drilled in [...]
The latest online news headlines about the Barnett Shale:
Chesapeake agrees to buy Pier 1 Imports building in Fort Worth
Houston Chronicle, United States - 19 hours ago
The Oklahoma City-based natural gas producer will use the building as a headquarters for the company’s Barnett Shale drilling operations. …
Q&A GEORGE MITCHELL, FOUNDER OF MITCHELL ENERGY
Fort Worth [...]
