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Armed with modern drilling technologies and results from vertical wells past, operators have been returning to the Buda Limestone Formation, a downstairs neighbor of the Eagle Ford Shale, and plying it with horizontal wells and lessons from the revitalization of the similar and shallower Austin Chalk.

Newfield Exploration Co. said Monday its hunch that the Maverick Basin in the Eagle Ford Shale “would hold thick, high-quality” pay has turned out to be true as it released initial results from its Eagle Ford assessment program.

Shale gas resources — and growing output from shale oil — will offset declines in other U.S. supplies through 2035, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported Thursday.

With only one month left to finish their annual scorecard, Canadian natural gas exporters are poised to chalk up a return to better times after a bruising fall.

With only one month left to finish their annual scorecard, Canadian natural gas exporters are poised to chalk up a return to better times after a bruising fall.

TransCanada Corp. is poised to chalk up a success for northern natural gas development by giving aboriginal communities a piece of the action.

TransCanada Corp. is poised to chalk up a success for northern natural gas development by giving aboriginal communities a piece of the action.

Canadian natural gas exporters are poised to chalk up a strong year of gains in both sales volumes and revenues, but doubts that the stellar performance will be repeated are spreading.

Canadian natural gas exporters are poised to chalk up a strong year of gains in both sales volumes and revenues, but doubts that the stellar performance will be repeated are spreading.