The Eagle Ford Shale Takes Flight

The South Texas Eagle Ford Shale’s emergence as an M&A hot spot in late 2022 highlights the play’s market potential this year.

February 28, 2023

Hilcorp Affiliate Harvest Midstream to Purchase Paradigm’s Bakken, Eagle Ford Assets

Paradigm will sell three midstream gathering systems serving the Bakken, and another in the Eagle Ford, to Hilcorp-affiliate Harvest.

February 28, 2023

Baytex to Acquire Eagle Ford E&P Ranger Oil for $2.5 Billion

The deal is the latest Eagle Ford transaction following months of multi-billion dollar M&A by Marathon Oil, Devon Energy and, most recently, Chesapeake Energy.

February 28, 2023

SM Energy Boosts Q4 Income But 2023 Guidance Underwhelms

Lower-than-estimated fourth-quarter oil production volumes are expected to stretch through 2023, while capex is expected to increase by over $200 million.

February 24, 2023

Tellurian Production, Revenues Soar in Q4 as Driftwood LNG Remains on Track

Tellurian Inc., which is developing the 27.6 mtpa Driftwood LNG project south of Lake Charles, produced an average of 225 MMcf/d in fourth-quarter 2022 and expects production to remain flat in 2023.

February 24, 2023

Chesapeake Finds ‘Much Better Deal’ in Eagle Ford Sale to INEOS

INEOS Energy Chairman Brian Gilvary told Hart Energy the $1.4 billion Chesapeake acquisition adds “good, economic barrels to add to [the company’s] portfolio.”

February 24, 2023

Inside Comstock’s North Houston ‘Western Haynesville’

Comstock Resources is putting modern horizontals and frac jobs into the deep Bossier, long known to be a super-stocked natgas tank. It’s looking like the new recipe works.

February 23, 2023

US Proposes First Offshore Wind Lease Sale in Gulf of Mexico

The proposed wind lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico, home to vast oil and gas production, would open acreage offshore Lake Charles, La., and Galveston, Texas, for wind development.

February 22, 2023

Freeport LNG Cleared to Start Operations

Freeport LNG Development has achieved regulatory approval to kick-start two trains at its three-train Quintana Island liquefaction plant, eight months after a fire shuttered the plant.

February 22, 2023

Chesapeake Sells Black Oil Window Eagle Ford Assets to INEOS for $1.4 Billion

In a span of about 34 days, Chesapeake has divested more than $2.82 billion in Eagle Ford assets as it makes a push toward a natural gas producing powerhouse.

February 21, 2023