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Insights

Mapping the Eagle Ford’s crude and condensate windows
The Eagle Ford Shale is easiest to understand as a shifting set of hydrocarbon zones rather than a single, uniform play. Across South Texas, changes in depth,…
How to Identify Shallow-Zone Leases Held by Production
How to identify leases that are held by production on a shallow zone requires more than finding a producing well near a lease boundary. The key issue is…
Map Layers That Clarify Arkansas Shale Prospects
Evaluating shale prospects in Arkansas requires more than locating a producing well and drawing a radius around it. A credible assessment combines geology,…
How to Check Whether a Lease Covers All Depths or Only the Target Formation
A petroleum lease can appear broad at first glance while granting rights to only one formation, seam, interval or producing horizon. That distinction affects…
Tracking Produced Water Disposal Well Growth Across the Permian Basin
The Permian Basin of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico has long been celebrated as the engine room of American oil production, but a quieter story is…
Understanding Pugh Clauses and Continuous Development Clauses
Oil and gas leases are notoriously dense, and two of the most misunderstood provisions inside them are Pugh clauses and continuous development clauses. Both…
Setting Up Permit Alerts for a Chosen Operator in Shale Navigator
The energy sector moves quickly, and missing a fresh drilling permit filed by a competitor or a prospect can mean lost opportunities. Whether you are an…
What the current SCOOP/STACK permit count reveals
A current permit count in the SCOOP and STACK plays is a useful temperature check for US shale activity, but it is not a direct tally of wells being drilled.…
How to calculate net mineral acres from a metes and bounds description
Metes and bounds descriptions define land by measured distances, directions, monuments, and adjoining boundaries rather than by a simple lot number or…
The Niobrara Chalk Beds and Their Influence on Fracturing
The Niobrara Formation stretches beneath parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Kansas, holding one of the most studied chalk sequences in North America.…


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