An article on the NOLA.com website reports on the economic benefits that natural gas from the Haynesville Shale as brought to Louisiana. The Shreveport Times website reports on two new reality shows [1] that focus on lifestyle changes brought to the area by natural gas money.
[1] http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20120120/ENT/201200324/2-new-CMT-reality-shows-feature-NW-Louisiana-residents?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE
More at NOLA.com.
Lots of factors contribute to the natural gas prices paid by residential customers. Long term contracts and distant supply sources can hold residential prices high even though natural gas is locally in abundance. Residential customers in Arkansas, Lo…
More at Energy Information Administration.
Some of the first horizontal wells in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale of central Louisiana are yielding oil. Some researchers believe that the formation contains billions of barrels of oil.
More at FuelFix.com.
The Energy Information Administration has an interactive map that displays energy infrastructure features in the Gulf of Mexico region. It includes power plants, transmission lines, LNG terminals, natural gas hubs, pipelines, oil ports, refineries, ac…
More at Energy Information Administration.
Natural gas companies can produce more gas from their Haynesville Shale wells than local and pipeline markets can consume. A liquefied natural gas export facility is planned for Sabine Pass, Louisiana that will condense natural gas to LNG and ship it …
More at Shreveport Times.
The Marshall University Center for Business and Economic Research has prepared: Taxation of Natural Gas: A Comparative Analysis. This publication reviews the many methods of taxing natural gas 19 different states. You might be surprised at how many …
More at Marshall University Center for Business and Economic Research.
Southwestern Energy has leased 460,000 net acres in the Upper Jurassic Brown Dense Shale, a potential unconventional horizontal oil play that straddles the border between southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana.
More at Southwestern Energy.
In Louisiana, a pipeline carries treated waste water from a paper mill to a natural gas field in the Haynesville Shale. The water is being recycled for hydraulic fracturing instead of being discharged into the Red River.
More at UpstreamOnline.com.
BHP Billiton, the world’s largest mining company headquartered in Australia, has agreed to purchase Petrohawk Energy for $12.1 billion. Petrohawk is an independent oil and natural gas company with a focus on exploration and production of shale plays within the United States. The company has significant activity in the Haynesville, Lower Bossier and Eagle Ford Shales of Texas and Louisiana.
More in the Petrohawk press release.
“DOE issued conditional authorization to Cheniere Energy’s application to export LNG from its Sabine Pass terminal in Louisiana. Cheniere plans to retrofit the existing import terminal to give it liquefaction capability. Cheniere has been authorized to export up to 2.2 Bcf/d of natural gas from the facility for a period of 20 years.” Quoted from the Energy Information Administration Weekly Natural Gas Update.
Public hearings are being scheduled related to the use of hydraulic fracturing to tap natural gas in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale near Baton Rouge, Louisiana. More in an article on TimesUnion.com.
An article on the ShreveportTimes.com website considers the industry activity and environmental impact associated with the injection of salt water waste produced by drilling for natural gas in the Haynesville Shale.
Heckman Water Resources will become the operator of the largest fleet of LNG trucks in North America as they purchase 200 Peterbilt vehicles that will be used to haul water for Encana’s Haynesville Shale drilling operations. Encana will provide the LNG from a mobile refueling station. More in the Oil and Gas Journal.
The Energy Information Administration recently reported that production from the Haynesville Shale had surpassed Barnett Shale production. Now, energy statisticians are arguing over the numbers. More at Platts.com.
A photo on the NOLA.com website shows a natural gas drilling pad with twenty high pressure pumping trucks being connected to the well. Haynesville Shale near Mansfield, Louisiana.
According to an article in the Houston Chronicle, the Haynesville Shale of Louisiana is now producing more natural gas than the Barnett Shale of Texas, running at a rate of about 5.5 billion cubic feet per day.
The Energy Information Administration has published a map that shows the increase in wet natural gas proved reserves by state for 2008-2009. There were huge increases for the states with large shale gas plays such as Marcellus Shale, Haynesville Shale, Fayetteville Shale, Eagle Ford Shale and the Barnett Shale.
More and more companies involved in the natural gas shales industry are working with emergency first responders to create training opportunities. These benefit everyone. Here is an article in the ShreveportTimes about a company, a nonprofit foundation and first responder groups working together.
A new documentary about the Haynesville Shale gas play titled: “Haynesville: A Nation’s Hunt for an Energy Future” will have its first television premiere on Tuesday. More in the ShreveportTimes.com.
Chesapeake Energy is working to get an LNG export terminal at their Sabine Pass, Louisiana facility. There they can receive gas from their Haynesville, Barnette and Eagle Ford fields and prepare it for shipment to other countries where the price of gas is much higher. More at PennEnergy.com.
Chesapeake Energy is working to get an LNG export terminal at their Sabine Pass, Louisiana facility. There they can receive gas from their Haynesville, Barnette and Eagle Ford fields and prepare it for shipment to other countries where the price of gas is much higher. More at PennEnergy.com.
An article on the 2theadvocate.com website reports that the Haynesville Shale generated a lot of economic activity in Louisiana – $5.7 billion in new household income, $10.6 billion in new business sales and over 57,000 new jobs.
The ShaleCountry website has a collection videos, each featuring a person who lives or works in one of the major natural gas plays. These folks explain their job and how the natural gas industry is impacting their area. Featured are lawyer, roustabout, RV park owner, truck driver, welding supplier, diner worker, farmer, hose supplier, pastor and more. Each video represents a specific gas play such as the Haynesville, Marcellus or Fayetteville.
Lafayette, Louisiana will start converting its fleet of buses and public works vehicles to natural gas. Much of that gas will likely come from the Haynesville Shale. More at the Daily Comet.
An article in TheNewsStar.com reports on a 42-inch pipeline being built by Energy Transfer Partners across Northern Louisiana to carry natural gas produced from the Haynesville Shale to eastern markets.
Energy Transfer Partners is building pipelines in Texas and Louisiana to carry natural gas produced from the Haynesville Shale. More in an article at UPI.com.
An abundance of natural gas in the Louisiana-Texas-Arkansas area has prompted Cheniere Energy to consider building the first LNG (liquefied natural gas) export terminal in the conterminous United States. More at Businessweek.com
Goodrich Petroleum is buying acres in the Eagle Ford and Haynesville Shale gas plays. More at Reuters.
The United States Energy Information Administration admits that it has been overestimating the natural gas production for Texas and Louisiana. More at Reuters.
The Financial Times website has an article titled: Louisiana’s Shale Gas Bonanza. It describes how a gas shale rush, lease and royalty income, and other opportunities related to the development of the Haynesville Shale have changed some parts of rural Louisiana.
