Map showing distribution of Haynesville Shale and other Unconventional Hydrocarbon Plays within LouisianaHaynesville Shale stratigraphic column for Texas
The Haynesville Shale is an informal, popular name for a Jurassic Period rock formation that underlies large parts of southwestern Arkansas, northwest Louisiana, and East Texas. It lies at depths of 10,500 to 13,000 feet below the land’s surface.[1][2] It is part of a large rock formation which is known by geologists as the Haynesville Formation. The Haynesville Shale underlies an area of about 9,000 square miles and averages about 200 to 300 feet thick. The Haynesville Shale is overlain by sandstone of the Cotton Valley Group and underlain by limestone of the Smackover Formation.[3][4]
It contains vast quantities of recoverable natural gas. This natural gas is known as "shale gas" because the wells produce from low permeability mudstones that are also the source for the natural gas. It was known to contain large quantities of natural gas prior to 2008. However, prior to that time, it was uneconomic to extract the natural gas. As a result of rising gas prices and improved technology in hydraulic fracturing and directional drilling, it became possible to extract the gas from the Haynesville Shale in an economic and cost-effective manner.[3]
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^Eversull, L.G. (1984) Regional Cross Sections, North Louisiana. Archived 2011-11-25 at the Wayback Machine Folio Series no. 7. Louisiana Geological Survey, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 10 sheets.
^ abGround Water Protection Council and ALL Consulting (2009) Modern Shale Gas Development in the United States: A Primer. Reported prepared under contract no. DE-FG26-04NT15455 for U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy and National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington DC. 96 pp.
^Salvador, A. (1991) Chapter 8. Triassic–Jurassic. In A. Salvador, ed., pp. 131- 180, The Geology of North America, vol. J, The Gulf of Mexico Basin. Boulder, Colorado Geological Society of America. ISBN 978-0-8137-5216-7
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in new shale fields, such as the Marcellus, Haynesville, and Eagle Ford shales. In 2012 the EIA lowered its estimates again to 482 tcf. Shale production...
with GSO Capital Partners, the company acquired its GEP Haynesville assets in the HaynesvilleShale, including 300 wells across 112,000 acres, from Encana...
sold 55,000 net acres in the Northern Eagle Ford Shale and 9,600 net acres in the HaynesvilleShale to EXCO for aggregate proceeds of $1 billion. In December...
the most productive source of shale gas in the US; it is now third, behind the Marcellus Formation and the HaynesvilleShale. In January 2013, the Barnett...
in the regions of Marcellus Shale, Utica Shale, HaynesvilleShale, Barnett Shale, and Fayetteville Shale. All natural gas activities are conducted by its...
$3.1 billion. In August 2015, the company sold its assets in the HaynesvilleShale for $850 million to affiliates of GSO Capital Partners and GeoSouthern...
Pennsylvania and West Virginia (73% of reserves), as well as the HaynesvilleShale (27% of reserves). The company also controls 2,518,519 net undeveloped...
Since 2000, shale gas has become a key source of natural gas in the US. Production rose more than tenfold from 2007 to 2018, when shale gas contributed...
(13-15×10^12 cu ft (420 km3)) Fayetteville Shale (18.2×10^12 cu ft (520 km3)) Gomez Gas Field (11×10^12 cu ft (310 km3)) HaynesvilleShale (250×10^12 cu ft (7,100 km3))...
800 pounds per square inch. More recently, the gas-rich Jurassic HaynesvilleShale has become the target of exploration and production. Several early...
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cash. Beginning in 2007, Petrohawk began acquiring acreage in the HaynesvilleShale, and in 2008 successfully began an extensive, $500 million drilling...
venture with Blackstone Credit dubbed GEP Haynesville in 2015, he redeployed some funds into the Haynesvilleshale natural gas development in Louisiana. When...
Eagle Ford Shale, Wolfcamp play, Haynesville/Bossier plays, Granite Wash play, and Fayetteville Shale, as well as in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale and the...
Louisiana for drilling for oil and natural gas within the Brown Dense. HaynesvilleShale Heydari, E. (2011) Hydrocarbon potential of the Lower Smackover Formation...
America, shale reservoirs such as the Bakken, Barnett, Montney, Haynesville, Marcellus, and most recently the Eagle Ford, Niobrara and Utica shales are drilled...
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than ten percent matrix porosity. Although shales have low permeability and low effective porosity, shale gas is usually considered separate from tight...
000 km2). It has shale positions in the Woodford, Oklahoma, Haynesville, Texas, and Eagle Ford, Texas shales. It has unconventional gas (shale gas or tight...
type occur. For example, the shale gas plays in North America include the Barnett, Eagle Ford, Fayetteville, Haynesville, Marcellus, and Woodford, among...
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