BNSF Railway launches rail loop for frac sand
Fort Worth-based BNSF Railway Co. and Frederick, Md.-based U.S. Silica Holdings Inc. on Monday ceremoniously opened a Von Ormy facility that will store and distribute sand used in the hydraulic fracturing process in the South Texas energy fields. More »
Texas company planning Eagle Ford refinery
A North Texas company said Monday it plans to build a 10,000-barrel-a-day refinery in La Salle County in the booming Eagle Ford Shale and sell its fuels in the area. And the company has plans to build “several” more plants in the region. More »
New Eagle Ford rail park coming to Bexar County
There’s another new rail park opening in southern Bexar County – part of a railroad boom that’s chasing surging oil and gas production in the Eagle Ford Shale region. More »
EOG Resources: Eagle Ford Shale is ‘steaming ahead’
EOG Resources, the company with the most acreage in the Eagle Ford Shale, is making a lot of money in South Texas. EOG plans to drill 425 Eagle Ford wells this year, More »
Drilling rigs boom in Texas — and across the US
In case you were wondering whether there was really an oil Renaissance happening in Texas, the state has 838 drilling rigs – about 47 percent of all U.S. rigs and 26 percent of drilling rigs worldwide. More »
Mexico debates opening its doors for shale development
Energy reform is likely to be one of the most important sweeping legislative changes that an incoming Mexican government will address, experts said Wednesday at a Houston conference on energy issues. More »
Mexico is third largest exporter of oil to United States
The United States continues to be Mexico’s main trading partner for energy products, accounting for more than $65 billion in energy trade in 2012. More »
Chesapeake thinks it has 342 million barrels in Eagle Ford
Oklahoma-based Chesapeake Energy Corp. has drilled 600 Eagle Ford wells, so far. More »
Anadarko getting 28,000 barrels per day in the Eagle Ford
The Woodlands-based Anadarko Petroleum Corp. in the first quarter saw a 60 percent jump over the same period last year in the sale of Eagle Ford Shale “liquids” – which includes both crude oil and natural gas liquids. More »
Contractor is killed at Eagle Ford construction site
A contractor working in the Eagle Ford Shale was killed Monday morning at a BHP Billiton Petroleum construction site in Karnes County. More »
Regional Eagle Ford job fairs attracting big crowds
South Texas officials have fretted that the abundance of newly available oil field jobs wouldn’t go to local residents, and that companies would have to “import” workers from other parts of the state and U.S. More »
Eagle Ford oil production hits record high
Oil production in Texas’s Eagle Ford shale formation reached an all-time high in February as it climbed 74 percent compared with a year earlier. More »
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