AubreyJ.org: #9 Haynesville Shale Updates

Sunday, July 06, 2008

#9 Haynesville Shale Updates - Sunday, July 06, 2008

This Post Last Updated: Wednesday, July 09, 2008
10:05pm CDT
Haynesville Shale
Large Natural Gas Deposit, Northwest Louisiana

UPDATES:
Sunday, June 06, 2008

Note: This post will be updated over next few days so check backPhoto Credit: AubreyJ.........
Wells of Past, 1967 - Grandfather’s Farm - Red Shute Plantation
Bossier Parish
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* KTBS website has this report up and it starts off like this... Petrohawk Energy has announced a major natural gas well in the Haynesville Shale...
Read this short report in full at link below...
Barnburner well in Haynesville Shale
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* Shreveport Times website reports... The Haynesville Shale is likely to become America's largest natural gas field and perhaps the fourth largest in the world, Chesapeake Energy Chairman and CEO Aubrey McClendon disclosed Wednesday in a conference call with its newest partner, Plains Exploration and Production Co... Oklahoma-based Chesapeake is so committed to development of the deep underground natural gas reserve spread across several parishes in northwest Louisiana and into east Texas that it so far has invested $2.5 billion, McClendon said...
Read the full report at link below...
Haynesville Shale is fourth largest in the world

... Shreveport Times also reports...
Dogwood Homeowners Association recently made a recommendation to accept Twin Cities Development's offer... That offer is $8,750 per acre if 90 percent of the Dogwood community in Haughton signs leases with the company to develop possible underlying natural gas pockets called Haynesville Shale under their properties... "Almost everybody is signing," said Dianna Judd, a Dogwood board member... When making their recommendation, Dogwood Homeowners Association members said people kept calling and asking what to do.
"So we had a meeting...
Read the rest HERE

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* UPDATE *
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
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* Investopedia website had this report up on the 7th and it starts off like this... Beyond the usual hot, sticky weather that settles over that part of the country during the sultry summer months, a set of drilling results released last week by mid-size gas producer Petrohawk Energy (NYSE:HK) added further fuel to the already white hot speculative fires surrounding the area. The buzz centers around a potentially gigantic natural gas play known as the Haynesville Shale...
Read the rest at link below...
Haynesville Shale Speculation Heats Up
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* KSLA.com had this report, (with New Video,) up on the 7th... Northwest Louisiana landowners have begun cashing in on the Haynesville Shale, which is being called one of the largest natural gas deposits in the country. But some people feel they're not getting paid what their mineral rights are worth...
Read the rest or watch the News Video Report HERE

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* UPDATE *
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
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* CNW Group website has this report...
Saxon Oil Company Ltd. ("Saxon") (PINK SHEETS: SXNOF) (TSX VENTURE: SXN) (FRANKFURT: OVG) (BERLIN: OVG) announces the company has 1273 gross acres located within the published area of the rapidly emerging Lower Bossier/Haynesville Shale resource play of North Louisiana and East Texas. Saxon interest acreage is operated by Comstock Resources and is located in Panola and Rusk Counties Texas in portions of the Oak Hill, North Tatum and Carthage Northwest Fields. The eleven producing Saxon wells produce from the Cotton Valley Limestone which overlies Bossier/Haynesville Shale and Saxon's working interest varies in those wells from 18 to 23 percent...
Read the full report at link below...
Saxon Holds Lease Position in Emerging Bossier/Haynesville Shale Play

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* KTBS website had this report up Wednesday evening...
Parishes get millions for oil and gas leases
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* Shreveport Times website reported it this way...
DeSoto, Caddo governments rake in $45 million in lease bonuses
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* UPDATE *
Thursday, July 10, 2008
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* KTAL website has this report, with News Video...
Queensboro Residents Discuss Haynesville Shale
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* Shreveport Times website has this updated report up Thursday...
Caddo, DeSoto to receive more than $46 million
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* UPDATE *
Friday, July 11, 2008
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* KTBS website has this report up today and it starts off like this... Chesapeake Energy Corp., a major driller in the Haynesville Shale natural gas field in Northwest Louisiana, said it will debut Shale.TV, an online video channel to provide information about the Barnett Shale, a very large gas field around Fort Worth... Officials said Shale.TV will go online in September...
Read this short report in full at link below...
Chesapeake Energy to debut online video channel about gas field
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Gas Boom! Leases $30,000 an Acre

Now here’s a fun video I ran across...
Note: I do not endorse this video site, nor am I personally signing up...
This video posted on YouTube by deanphilpot
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* Links of Interest *
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* City of Shreveport website...
Shreveport Shale

* Louisiana Office Of Conservation Home Page

* Louisiana Office Of Conservation 2008 Schedule of Public Hearings

* Louisiana Department of Natural Resources Home Page

* Louisiana Oil & Gas Association

* National Association of Royalty Owners

* Geology.com

* Photo Galleries by the Shreveport Times Haynesville Shale

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* Interactive Map by the Shreveport Times of Gas Wells in Caddo, Bossier, DeSoto and Webster

* KSLA.com...
Oil & gas companies drilling in the Haynesville Shale

* Chesapeake Energy Corporation