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Haas: West Texas’ Oily, Horizontal Wolfcamp Potential May Be Extended North

Friday, December 16th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

“The Wolfcamp shale play is proving to be oily, consistent and large—very large.”   The oily, horizontal Wolfcamp play may be expanding north of drillers’ current focus in Crockett, Irion, Reagan and ... Read more..

Bakken Founder Harold Hamm: Obama ‘Is Riding The Wrong Horse On Energy’

Monday, October 17th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

WSJ interview has the oil industry abuzz about Obama’s hopes for green and alternative energy. It’s called the Bakken and it has oil superpowers on their heels. The Wall Street Journal’s ... Read more..

Got Utica? GHS’ Michael Bodino Explores Public Stocks Exposed To The New Oil Play

Monday, October 17th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Leasehold in the core Utica play may be worth between $12,000 and $16,000 an acre. With little drilling—but early play-making results—yet from Ohio’s Utica shale-oil play, Global Hunter Securities LLC’s research ... Read more..

Continued Slow-Permit Action In Deepwater Gulf of Mexico May Create Dollars For Unconventional Plays

Friday, October 7th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Chevron Corp. has capex opportunities in the Marcellus, Utica, Monterey “This is as good as it gets in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico,” says Paul Sankey, Deutsche Bank integrated-oil equity analyst. ... Read more..

Barclays: Public E&Ps Won’t Buy Dry-Gas Properties Even At A Low Price

Sunday, September 18th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

  “…Additional dry-gas acreage would be met with investor scorn,” says Barclays Capital’s Michael Zenker.   Maybe the ire of investors has publicly held producers shy about buying dry-gas-producing properties. Barclays Capital research ... Read more..

Upstream A&D’s Master Buyers, Sellers, Matchmakers, Financiers Will Meet Aug. 30 In Dallas; Join Them

Thursday, August 11th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Panelists include Joe Foster and Forrest Hoglund, Bobby Tudor and Jack Randall. Topics include international JVs, turning purchases into profit, what the money wants, what the deals will cost. Want to ... Read more..

Some Facts About Lower Smackover Brown Dense

Thursday, August 11th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

  The source rock for nearly a century of Upper Smackover production is a new target as a horizontal oil play. A hot new horizontal “dirty shale” carbonate/shale play may surface from ... Read more..

The D-J Basin’s Niobrara Vs. The Bakken And Eagle Ford—How The Plays Compare

Thursday, August 11th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

  Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities Inc. analysts say Niobrara wells cost less but make less after-tax return on investment. How does the horizontal Niobrara oil play in the Denver-Julesburg Basin ... Read more..

Spending Time With Joe Foster & Team Newfield In Art Smith’s New Book, ‘Something from Nothing’

Thursday, June 30th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

    From folding card tables and lawn chairs for office furniture, Foster and team grew Newfield to 2 Tcfe proved.   “There’s ‘Joe time’ and there’s ordinary time,” former Newfield Exploration Co. board ... Read more..

New York Times Writer Bites Gas Investors, NYT Readers—An Open Letter To Ian Urbina

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Dear Ian, In reading your June 25 online report “Insiders Sound an Alarm Amid a Natural Gas Rush,” it is apparent that the story, with the application of sincerity and more ... Read more..

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