Haynesville Shale

Total natural gas and oil production from seven of the nation’s largest unconventional plays will decline slightly next month compared with October, continuing a downward trend begun in April, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

The Northeast has replaced weather as the wildcard in the U.S. natural gas markets because deferred and constrained wells could unleash as much as 10 Bcf/d if prices were to cooperate, a Genscape Inc. expert said Wednesday.

As the “lower for longer” commodity price environment drags on, producers will increasingly return to previously drilled horizontal wells, refracture them and bank the lower-cost returns, according to a new study of well refracturing in the Haynesville Shale.

The decline in the U.S. rig count decelerated again to a drop of just four rigs in the count released by Baker Hughes Inc. on Friday (Sept. 25).

Memorial Resource Development Corp. (MRD) in separate deals is acquiring or leasing acreage adjacent to its North Louisiana operating areas in the Cotton Valley Sands formation’s Terryville Complex.

Energy companies drilling in 10 onshore basins across the country used nearly 250 billion gallons of water over a 10-year period to extract unconventional natural gas and oil, a large number but still less than 1% of the total amount of industrial water used nationwide, a Duke University study has found.

Across the Lower 48, the seven major oil and natural gas basins have seen a clear decline overall in production, but new-well output per rig — natural gas and oil — is strengthening, the Energy Information Administration said Monday.

The U.S. and Canadian rig counts continued their slide in the latest Baker Hughes Inc. census amid the mantra of “lower for longer” oil prices now widely spouted by industry executives and analysts.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. (CHK) has struck a deal with units of Williams Partners LP that gives it a break on natural gas gathering fees in the Haynesville and Utica shales while it agrees to increase production/volume commitments to Williams’ pipes.