Is there Natural Gas Beneath Dallas County?
By Lisa Rab Drillers—and cities—are betting Barnett Shale riches are headed Dallas’ way. By Pablo Lastra Dallas may have cultivated the image of an oil town …
Barnett Shale County:
Tarrant County Barnett Shale Gas Well Estimates
2008 Tarrant County Barnett Shale Well Revenue Estimate For Neighborhoods. By Gene Powell, Powell Barnett Shale Newsletter. Summary …
RRC: Water Use in the Barnett Shale
In January of 2007, the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) published a study of a 19-county area in [...]
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 went undiscovered [...]
Mineral rights can be sold as a percentage of the whole, or in their entirety. Mineral sales appeal to individuals that are interested in receiving value now for production that may (or may not) occur in the future. Mineral rights could belong to the current (surface rights) owner. Or, the mineral rights could have been [...]
Estimates of the size of Barnett Shale’s reserves are rapidly increasing as the productive limits have not been defined. The effect of the Barnett Shale is starting to make a big impact on the nation’s gas business at a time of declining domestic production and projections of rising demand. Estimates promise 100,000 jobs and $10 [...]
Drilling likely will shift from the standard vertical wells to more expensive horizontal wells, requiring more manpower, equipment, expertise and time. Predictions are it will take another year or so before knowing if it’s a viable commercial opportunity. Drilling rigs are already located on the Dallas/Fort Worth airport, and inside the Fort Worth city limits, [...]
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 [...]
Natural gas pipes wend their way through the community. New pipeline rights of way and wells are everywhere. Natural gas pipes wend their way through the community. New pipeline rights of way and wells are everywhere. Natural gas produced on location is used to fire the distilling units that in turn boil the returned fracture [...]
GAMLS is one such software program, which allows geologists, geophysicists, engineers, and petro-physicists to evaluate old fields, look for step-outs, and to analyze the potential of new producing zones. In many cases, the new zones have been overlooked because technologies to determine the zone’s potential, and then to successful drill and complete the hydrocarbon-bearing formation [...]
Barnett Shale is a gas-bearing formation that the industry has known about for a long, long time. It was not commercially producible on a vertical well bore because the formation would not give up enough gas on a vertical structure in order to be able to make your money back out of what it took [...]
