Haynesville Shale
The Haynesville shale play of northwest Louisiana and East Texas burst on the scene in early 2008. The oil and gas industry quickly applied what had been earlier learned from the Barnett Shale of Texas, thereby producing impressive results relatively quickly. Chesapeake Energy is the largest leaseholder of the Haynesville Shale with more than 500,000 net acres followed by EnCana and Shell with over 300,000 net acres each. Petrohawk also has over 300,000 net acres targeting the Haynesville. Activity increased dramatically in mid 2008 as oil and gas prices soared. As of 2010, the Haynesville shale has more rigs drilling for gas in the formation than any other play in the US.
Haynesville Shale Companies
Significant producers within the Haynesville Shale are:
- Anadarko Petroleum
- Berry Petroleum
- Cabot Oil and Gas
- Chesapeake Energy
- Comstock Resources
- Crimson Exploration
- Cubic Energy
- Devon Energy
- Eagel Oil
- El Paso Corp.
- EnCana Corp.
- EOG Resources
- EXCO Resources
- Forest Oil
- GMX Resources
- Goodrich Petroleum
- NFR Energy
- Noble Energy
- Penn Virginia
- Petrohawk
- Plains Exploration and Production
- Questar Corp.
- Shell Western
- St. Mary Land & Exploration
- SM Energy
- Sojitz Energy
- Southwestern Energy
- XTO Energy
Haynesville Shale Geology
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Haynesville Shale Location
The Haynesville Shale is located in the following counties:
- Gregg County TX
- Harrison County TX
- Marion County TX
- Panola County TX
- Shelby County TX
- Rusk County TX
- Upshur County TX