Will Brackett, managing editor of the Powell Shale Digest in Fort Worth, could hardly believe his eyes when the weekly report arrived from RigData, a company that tracks activity in the Barnett. And ...

NEW YORK, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The Barnett Shale formation in Texas will play a central role in the U.S. natural gas boom for a generation, according to a new in-depth report, the findings of which were ...

Energy prices already are slowing production, but some officials are concerned a foreign natural gas cartel could further hamper development in the Barnett Shale and other similar resource plays.

FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A far-reaching new study concludes that shale gas exploration and production activities – including hydraulic fracturing – have not resulted in community-wide ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, June 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Devon Energy Corporation (NYSE: DVN) dramatically boosted its presence in the Barnett Shale in north Texas today by ...

Natural gas activist and blogger Sharon Wilson was among the environmentalists out at Earth Day last weekend — not far from the EPA’s six-foot cardboard Al Armendariz — and she was passing out copies ...

Terax Energy spudded its first well Oct. 12 in Erath County, Texas, targeting the Barnett Shale Formation gas play and commencing the company's drilling operations in the Fort Worth Basin. Terax ...

Occidental Petroleum's sale of its chemicals business to Berkshire Hathaway for $9.7 billion reduces debt to targeted levels.

NEW YORK, July 21 (Reuters) - Williams Cos Inc said on Monday that it would buy about 10,000 net acres in north Texas' Barnett Shale for about $166 million in cash. The company said it had a deal to ...

Rising Phoenix Capital, a boutique investment firm specializing in oil and gas mineral royalty acquisitions, today announced the strategic sale of a 661.88 net royalty acre mineral package in the ...

Boutique investment company Rising Phoenix Capital has completed the sale of a significant mineral package in the Barnett Shale, Denton County, Texas, US. The 661.88-net-royalty-acre asset, operated ...