Knowledge from successful existing plays can reduce the learning curve for new and current areas of development.

Finding the fractures can mean the difference between success and failure in shale plays. The geophysical toolkit is here to help.

For Marathon Oil Corp., 80% of the company’s growth of 200,000 barrels of incremental production per day is expected to be driven by the Bakken, Niobrara, Woodford and Eagle Ford shale plays.

Economists show that technology adds value to shale plays.

Ted Brown, senior vice president, says the company is escalating exploration in the play.

A new analysis by Evaluate Energy highlights the big differences in drilling costs between companies in North American shale plays.

The challenge in the western, oily window of the Utica shale play in Ohio is that the reservoir there tends to be normally pressured, according to John Richels.

Analysts have called Laredo Petroleum Holdings “the next Concho,” referring to its big growth profile in the Permian Basin as a pure play on that oil-rich region.

Uinta Basin plan gets OK from Dept. of Interior and environmental groups; estimated recovery is 500 MMcf per day.

As Eagle Ford shale production continues to increase, it is hastening the need for midstream infrastructure development in the play.

The natural gas industry in North America finds itself in an awkward combination of technical success and commercial stress.

February was the second month running in which daily revenue fell below $200 million industrywide.

In one fell swoop Floyd Wilson’s Halcon Resources Corp. added another half to its proved reserves base and nearly doubled its existing production with its $1-billion acquisition of GeoResources Inc.

While the 2012 year in U.S. oil and gas dealmaking has been relatively quiet thus far, notwithstanding a handful of statistic-skewing blockbuster acquisitions, the second half of the year looks to be hot with activity.