A Texas oil and gas company has just completed the successful trialing of an Eagle Ford shale hydraulic fracturing well using propane and butane instead of water. Jadela Oil Corp’s El Indio #1 well is producing oil, gas, butane and hydrocarbons following testing last week. A company press release says 5360 barrels of liquid propane/butane […]
It’s a tale of two shales, and two energy companies bulking up their processing capacity for natural gas liquids (NGLs). Two midstream gas players are putting billions into infrastructure to help handle the NGLs flowing from two of the country’s shale gas fields, according to the investing site The Wall Street Transcript. The Houston-based Enterprise […]
The Eagle Ford shale formation is a large, subterranean vein of rock that runs under a few counties in South Texas. In recent months, oil companies have found promising pools of gas and oil there, drawing the attention of the biggest names in the industry — Shell, BP, Norway’s Statoil, and one of the major […]