Haynesville

Rising construction costs are likely to give brownfield liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects an extra advantage over greenfield sites as planned developments move toward sanction, Sempra CEO Jeff Martin said Thursday. “Greenfield projects tend to have a little bit of a higher per-unit cost than brownfield projects, Martin said during the 2Q2021 earnings call. “This…

The U.S. natural gas rig count slipped one unit to 103 for the week ended Friday (July 30) as a pullback in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) dragged the overall domestic tally lower, the latest data from Baker Hughes Co. (BKR) show. Declines in the United States also included two oil-directed rigs, leaving the combined…

Southwestern Energy Co. is moving beyond the Appalachian Basin to expand its natural gas opportunities with a $2.7 billion takeover of Haynesville Shale pure-play Indigo Natural Resources LLC. The Houston independent, a Lower 48 pioneer in unconventional drilling techniques, said the merger would boost production to 4 Bcfe/d, 85% weighted to natural gas. Indigo, which…

Southwestern Energy Co. is moving beyond the Appalachian Basin to expand its natural gas opportunities with a $2.7 billion takeover of Haynesville Shale pure-play Indigo Natural Resources LLC. The Houston independent, a Lower 48 pioneer in unconventional drilling techniques, said the merger would boost production to 4 Bcfe/d, 85% weighted to natural gas. Indigo, which…

Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corp. expects to up the natural gas mix in its production portfolio to 85% in 2022 from 77%, executives said Wednesday in the first quarter earnings call. The recently restructured company expects its gas production to hit 715-735 Bcf this year. Capital expenditures are set at $670-740 million, executives said. At…

Goodrich Petroleum Corp. plans to ramp up natural gas production in the resurgent Haynesville Shale this year, citing strong commodity pricing and high productivity from recently completed wells in northwestern Louisiana. “The core of the Haynesville continues to offer low development and lifting costs, top-tier cash margins and returns on invested capital, as well as…

Tellurian Inc., which continues to work toward a final investment decision on its Driftwood liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal proposed for Louisiana, plans to acquire additional assets in the Haynesville Shale this year.  The company said in its year-end earnings report that it intends to “pursue potential acquisitions” of properties or companies that own Haynesville…

Lower 48 oil and gas producers have drawn down their inventory of drilled but uncompleted (DUC) wells to pre-pandemic levels, reflecting an improved commodity pricing and demand outlook, according to new analysis by Rystad Energy. After reaching a multiyear high of 6,548 wells last June, the DUC count in the country’s major oil regions fell…

Cumulative natural gas production from seven key U.S. onshore regions is set to fall by 472 MMcf/d from January to February, extending a downtrend that goes back to early 2020, according to updated projections published Tuesday by the Energy Information Administration (EIA). In its latest Drilling Productivity Report, EIA said it expects the Anadarko, Appalachian…