“Note: LNG was not pumped as the fluid used underground to create the cracks.”
That was what I first thought when I read the headline. I didn’t figure it out until about the third paragraph, then it all made sense.
Thackney, one reason I love your posts: My neice’s husband sells drilling mud and other drilling materials to the operators down in Eagle Ford. Great guy. Your posts allow me to have a halfway intelligent conversation with him. He says there is another play in strata even deeper in Eagle Ford, but the technology to tap into it on a commerical scale isn’t there yet.
I would suspect economics mostly. But technology advance bring unreachable economics closer to grasp. Just as a decade or so ago did for Eagle Ford, Bakken and others.
Colby Williford is vice president of land with Momentum Oil & Gas in Houston, a company focused on geologic formations that run deeper than the Eagle Ford, including the Edwards Limestone, Glen Rose Limestone and Pearsall Formation.
He said the leasing for those formations involved blocks of land already leased for Eagle Ford production.
“Everybody was leased. You couldn’t just look at the courthouse and find the landowner that wasn’t leased. We looked for deep rights that had expired,” Williford said. “There’s multiple ways for deep rights to drop off and other rights to come open.”
http://www.chron.com/business/energy/article/Producers-watch-the-clock-in-Eagle-Ford-4082310.php