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Frac Math in the Bakken

Monday, June 21st, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

The Bakken is a barn-burner, and if one includes the Lower Lodgepole formation as well, then this area of North Dakota could contain up to 8 billion barrels of oil, ... Read more..

Watch Out For This Gas Supply Game-Changer

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Is U.S. natural gas production really going up, or is it flat or down, compared to 2008 and 2009 data? That’s been the key question this year for producers, traders, ... Read more..

More on McMoRan and Jim Bob

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

In this blog a few days ago, I wrote about Jim Bob Moffett, major domo of McMoRan Exploration Co., who spoke in Houston on the big Davy Jones find ... Read more..

From NAPE To “JimBob-ology” To The Bakken

Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

We've been busy lately, but it's been a good kind of busy. We have listened to E&P folks at NAPE and then a few days later, we attended a Houston ... Read more..

Marcellus Congressmen Rally For Drilling

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

U.S. Reps. Gene Thompson and Tim Murphy, and State Sen. Gene Yaw welcome the industry. The burgeoning Marcellus shale play in Pennsylvania is a welcome boon to the state’s depressed economy ... Read more..

What ExxonMobil’s Grab For XTO Means

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

By now, you've seen a  lot of comment on this deal, ExxonMobil's first corporate acquisition in a  decade, and the first grab of a super-independent since ConocoPhillips acquired Burlington Resources--that ... Read more..

Marcellus Mojo Continues

Monday, October 26th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

They came to Pittsburgh, and the Marcellus shale was the lure. Some 1,400 people attended our "Developing Unconventional Gas-East" (DUG-East), held October 19. One key take-away is that the Marcellus may ... Read more..

Natural gas, 10 times over

Thursday, June 18th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

No matter how you slice it, the U.S. has more than enough natural gas to transition the country away from over-reliance on crude oil and toward the future, for power ... Read more..

More Haynesville details emerge

Thursday, June 18th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

A Calgary research firm has mapped and plotted 75 wells in East Texas and North Louisiana's Haynesville shale. More details are thus emerging and the location of the sweet spots ... Read more..

Energy Financing with Tom Cruise

Thursday, June 18th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Continued stress in financial and commodity markets has been facilitating a lot of deal action since May 2009. Deals are getting done, and many of them are creative, and oversubscribed. ... Read more..