Breakeven

Haynesville An Able Price Competitor With Northeast NatGas in ‘Plenty of Areas’

Plenty of room is left to run in the neglected Haynesville Shale, where natural gas could be produced today at a breakeven of $1.50-3.00/MMBtu, enabling it to compete with Northeast output, a BTU Analytics review has found.

February 19, 2016
Good Production, Prices Concentrate in Four North Dakota Counties

Good Production, Prices Concentrate in Four North Dakota Counties

The continued strong production and favorable breakeven prices for North Dakota’s Bakken Shale play are concentrated in four counties where the vast majority of the state’s greatly reduced number of drilling rigs are still operating, the latest county-by-county statistics show.

August 20, 2015

Banker: Contrarians Should Think Conventional

Breakeven shale play economics in a low-gas price environment have driven a migration to liquids-rich and oil plays. “Being in liquids is not only cool; it’s profitable,” an investment banker said in Houston last week. “You can produce gas even if you don’t make money on the gas because the liquids are worth so much more.” But maybe now is the time to be a contrarian, she suggested.

May 23, 2011

Banker: Savvy Contrarians Should Think Conventional

Breakeven shale play economics in a low-gas price environment have driven a migration to liquids-rich and oil plays. “Being in liquids is not only cool; it’s profitable,” an investment banker said in Houston Tuesday. “You can produce gas even if you don’t make money on the gas because the liquids are worth so much more.” But maybe now is the time to be a contrarian, she suggested.

May 18, 2011