Rosetta Resources names new CEO
Houston’s Rosetta Resources, an independent oil and gas company, this week announced new top leadership. More »
Eagle Ford crude selling for far above threshold
The threshold level for drilling a profitable oil well in the South Texas oil and gas field is somewhere between $50 and $57 a barrel, a Baker Hughes executive said Wednesday. More »
West Texas shale could dwarf Eagle Ford
Texas is awash in oil and gas, with rigs proliferating from the Permian Basin to the Haynesville Shale. Now, another shale play in West Texas is causing a stir, with early estimates of recoverable reserves at 30 billion barrels of oil. More »
New pipeline to move Eagle Ford gas to Mexico
Houston-based NET Midstream on Friday announced it will build a 124-mile pipeline to transport natural gas from the Eagle Ford Shale region to the Mexican border. More »
Rail yard planned for Eagle Ford
A 1,000-acre rail yard is in the works just south of San Antonio — part of a South Texas railroad boom that’s followed the surging oil and gas activity in the Eagle Ford Shale region. More »
Marathon Oil’s big Eagle Ford plans
The Eagle Ford will make up an increasing share of the company’s domestic production, from about 18 percent last year to about 40 percent in 2013. More »
Energy to help Texas economy outpace nation’s
The flourishing energy sector along with across-the-board private sector hiring will keep Texas’ economic growth moving faster than the nation’s, an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas predicted Wednesday. More »
Anadarko spending plan targets US shale
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. projected its sales of oil and gas will rise 5 percent in 2013 and the company will make between $7.2 billion and $7.6 billion in capital investments this year, it announced Wednesday. More »
Eagle Ford oil output surges in December
EOG Resources Inc. and other drillers increased production in Texas’s Eagle Ford shale formation by 68 percent in December compared with the same period a year earlier. More »
Eagle Ford pay is high, but work can be fatal
Federal documents show inspectors found safety violations at the site of every worker fatality in the Eagle Ford Shale since 2009 and often concluded that companies hadn’t taken adequate steps to keep their workers safe. More »
Oil tank company gets sales boost on West Texas boom
When Fox Tank Co. opened in Kerrville, Texas a few years ago, the company planned to hire around 15 employees. Now the oil field tank company has 62 employees, picking up the bulk of its customers in the Permian Basin. More »
Tenaris announces $1.5B pipe plant in Matagorda County
Tenaris, an international company with North American headquarters in Houston, will build a $1.5 billion pipe mill in Matagorda County to serve drillers in the Eagle Ford and other unconventional shale plays. More »
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