Eagle Ford Shale Play

LOCATION:  Texas

The oil and gas industries are familiar with the Barnett Shale, but few know about the discovery of the natural gas reservoir called the Eagle Ford shale. This particular natural gas play is on a similar scale to the Haynesville shale in Louisiana.

The Eagle Ford Shale trends across Texas from the Mexican border in South Texas into East Texas, roughly 50 miles wide and 400 miles long. It’s age and the fact that it is resting between the Buda Lime and the Austin Chalk levels below the surface are significant points that are pushing this play’s reputation. It is the prominent source of rock for the Chalk and the giant East Texas Field.

The play has become an attractive target for hydrocarbon exploitation. There are currently over 30 fields located within the 6 districts and the fields include approximately 35 counties. The wells in the deeper part of the play deliver a dry gas, but moving northeastward produce more liquids. One of the fields is actually an oil field, Eagleville/Eagle Ford.

The Energy Division of Crafton Tull has surveyed millions of linear feet of pipeline right-of-way and over 1,000,000 acres of ownership in south Texas.