| BAKKEN | BARNETT | EAGLE FORD | GRANITE WASH | HORN RIVER | MARCELLUS | MISSISSIPPI LIME | OPERATOR ASSETS |
| NIOBRARA | PERMIAN | PICEANCE/UINTA | POLAND | UTICA | WOODFORD | AUSTRALIA | COMPLETIONS |

The late-Ordovician-age Utica shale has the potential to be the next hot play in unconventional resources drilling and production. It almost had to happen, given that the Utica sits below the geologically younger and highly productive Devonian-age Marcellus shale—and what's more, it even exceeds the Marcellus' vast geographic limits. Adding to its appeal, the Utica is ...
The large amount of capital required has also transformed the M&A industry, as producers reshuffle capital and assets to get into strategic locations, and as foreign oil companies, major internationals and private equity have purchased assets, operators, or both, to get into the game.
Is Devon Energy Corp. about to add a sixth focus area to its Sinopec JV efforts to develop the Mississippi Lime, the Tuscaloosa, the Niobrara, and new liquids targets in Ohio and Michigan?