Eagle Ford Shale

The UK company will purchase oil producing acreage across the northern part of the south Texas Eagle Ford shale play.

M&A market activity in the fourth quarter fell from the third-quarter high to $13 billion.

The Oklahoma City-based operator struck the first big US shale deal of 2023 as it pivots toward natural gas developments.

The deal upon closing at year-end would expand Marathon’s position in the south Texas shale play by 130,000 net acres.

The authors write that child-well performance increases with spacing and decreases with infill timing and that the parent cumulative production at child-well completion is an effective indicator of child-well performance.

Injecting gas plus water proved more effective and less costly than gas-only injection in the Bakken.

The Oklahoma City-based tight-oil producer has agreed to acquire Validus Energy.

The principles behind unconventional wells lead to production profiles very different from conventional wells. High initial-production rates drop to much lower rates in a matter of months or a few years. How many in the US are currently considered low-production-rate wells?

A rigless chemical frac-hit remediation process was designed to address the damage mechanisms of capillary phase trapping, reduced hydrocarbon relative permeability, paraffin deposition, and minor scale deposition.

The US producer also closed its acquisition of assets in the Permian through a deal with Primexx.