Table of Contents

Oil & Gas Financial Journal

08/01/2009
Volume 6, Issue 8
  • Editor's Comment

  • Capital Perspectives

    • Hydraulic fracturing: the current state of play
      Hydraulic fracturing is an increasingly important part of energy production in the US. While the technology has been used for 60 years to enhance production from oil and gas wells, today hydraulic fracturing is essential to making gas wells in many types of unconventional formations such as shales economically viable.
  • Analyze This

  • Upsteam News

  • Cover Story

  • Features

    • Devon Energy ranks No. 1 in Barnett Shale
      Devon Energy Corp. takes top honors as the No. 1 producer in the Barnett Shale, and the company’s total gas production in that formation alone is enough for the Oklahoma City company to earn distinction as the overall leader in production from shale gas in the United States.
    • Chesapeake Energy is tops in Haynesville
      Chesapeake Energy Corp. is the leading natural gas producer in the Haynesville Shale, followed closely by Houston-based Petrohawk Energy Corp.
    • Southwestern earns top billing in Fayetteville
      Houston-based Southwestern Energy Co. is the runaway top producer in Arkansas’ Fayetteville Shale with nearly three times the natural gas production of the second-largest producer, Chesapeake Energy Corp., and almost eight times the volume of the No. 3 player, Petrohawk Energy Corp.
    • Newfield moves to top in Woodford
      Houston-based Newfield Exploration Co. was founded in 1989 and went public in 1993. Until the mid-1990s, the company’s sole focus area was the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
    • EOG Resources is best in the Bakken
      One of the largest independent oil and natural gas companies in the United States, Houston-based EOG Resources Inc., has proved reserves in the US, Canada, Trinidad, the North Sea (UK), and China.
    • Marcellus shale: a modern-day gold rush
      While natural gas producers in Pennsylvania strike gold, New York sits on the sidelines in a regulatory morass amid public fears and misperceptions over horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.
    • Unconventional gas outlook to 2020
      While oil prices have recovered from their dramatic plunge, natural gas prices remain extremely low, and nobody is sure when to expect a recovery.
    • 1Q09 revenues decline 22%, net income drops by $50 billion
      Financial results for the 146 publicly-traded US companies tracked in the OGJ200 report were down as expected in the first quarter of 2009.
  • Industry Briefs

    • Halliburton wins $450Mcontract extension
      Oilfield services company Halliburton Co. has been awarded a $450 million, two-year contract extension by StatoilHydro for rigs on the Norwegian continental shelf.
  • Energy Players

  • Beyond the Well

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