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 ...

The Barnett shale formation in north Texas will play a central role in the US natural gas boom for a generation, according to a new in-depth report released this week. However, production in the ...

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.

PARIS (Reuters) - French oil and gas company Total will increase its exposure to U.S. shale gas by buying 75 percent of Barnett Shale assets from Chesapeake , taking advantage of a far lower price ...

Inside Climate News reports on the peer-reviewed study that indicates that 90 percent more methane than the government had thought is escaping into the atmosphere as a result of natural-gas drilling ...

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 ...

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 ...

BKV Corp. has agreed to acquire Barnett Shale assets from Bedrock Production LLC for approximately $370 million, adding 97,000 net acres and 108 MMcfed of production, primarily natural gas, to its ...

(Reuters) - Range Resources Corp said it completed the acquisition of properties in the gas-rich Barnett Shale in Texas from a unit of DTE Energy Co and a private company for an adjusted purchase ...