Privately held E&Ps have been picking up rigs faster than publicly held E&Ps in the past month, Uhlmer adds.

With an estimated 50% of perforation clusters and 25% of stages not contributing to production from wells in all of the major shale plays, Schlumberger is focused on reducing the number of defective wells and improving completion quality.

Haynesville gas production will peak and begin to recede sometime between mid-year and Labor Day. That rollover could come sooner if weak natural gas prices persist and operators aggressively shut in production.

Chesapeake is joining the small--but growing--list of operators who plan to curtail drilling in dry gas basins.

Nearly two years after operators prophesied a transition to liquids rich portfolios, the oil-directed horizontal rig count topped the gas-directed horizontal rig count during the week ending Jan. 6, 2012.

Low natural gas prices may force some operators to cut drilling levels in unconventional dry gas plays, but others find they can sustain production volume growth through improved efficiencies.

Today, the mighty Haynesville shale is the largest producing gas play in North America. It makes some 6.5 billion cubic feet per day, a remarkable rise from zero production in 2007.

An environmentalist and the head of a drillers' group weigh in on the bill that Gov. Perry recently signed.

Haynesville infrastructure expansions are under way to accommodate the play's rising natural gas production, which now exceeds Barnett Production.

Encana Corp. continues to crank out big-time results in northern Louisiana.

Encouraged by success stories on the Louisiana side of the Haynesville shale, operators in East Texas are taking a turn in the spotlight.

As production from unconventional gas plays continues to rise, new pipeline and take-away capacity projects are under way.

Six new Haynesville producers had total initial potentials of almost 111 MMcf/d in northwestern Louisiana.

Multiple pipeline projects are set to be implemented across North American in the coming year.

Petrohawk president and COO Dick Stoneburner says to expect reports of tremendous results in the Eagle Ford play.