Chesapeake aims to raise $10 billion to $12 billion this year

| |Monday, Feb. 13, 2012

The company will sell assets and participate in joint ventures.Read more

Chesapeake to seek buyer for Permian Basin assets

Monday, Feb. 13, 2012

Chesapeake Energy, the second-biggest U.S. natural-gas producer and the No. 2 producer in the Barnett Shale, said today that it plans to raise $10 billion to $12 billion this year from asset sales and joint ventures.Read more

Barnett Shale rig report

Friday, Feb. 10, 2012

Tarrant County

Chesapeake, Oklahoma City: horizontal off East Rosedale Street southwest of Interstate 30/Loop 820.Read more

Quicksilver Production Partners seeks to raise $250 million in IPO

| |Friday, Feb. 10, 2012

A new master limited partnership, which holds Barnett Shale reserves, will trade under the stock market symbol QPP.Read more

Number of active rigs in U.S. falls slightly

Friday, Feb. 10, 2012

In North Texas, Barnett Shale rigs are steady.Read more

Arlington council backs plan for fee on gas wells in city

| |Tuesday, Feb. 07, 2012

The fire chief is told to present a final plan in two weeks.Read more

Barnett Shale Rig Report

Saturday, Feb. 04, 2012

Tarrant County

XTO Energy, Fort Worth: horizontal off Eagle Mountain Circle.Read more

Arlington fire chief to request fee on gas wells

| |Friday, Feb. 03, 2012

Fire Chief Don Crowson plans to ask the City Council to impose an annual fee of $2,400 per gas well to help pay for additional firefighters, specialized training and equipment that he said is needed to prevent and better respond to incidents at well sites.Read more

Rig count shows big gap between oil and gas

| |Friday, Feb. 03, 2012

The number of active natural gas rigs in the United States is at a 26-month low.Read more

Quicksilver Resources to cut capital spending in half

| |Wednesday, Feb. 01, 2012

The Fort Worth-based driller cites low natural gas prices.Read more

Drillers must now disclose fracking chemicals

| |Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012

The rule that takes effect today also requires disclosure of how much water is used.Read more

Exxon beats expectations with fourth-quarter profit of $9.4 billion

| |Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012

Rising oil prices help the energy giant post a 16 percent revenue gain.Read more

Fracking continues in Colleyville

| |Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012

If a pipeline is never built, then the natural gas won't be sold and no royalties will be paid.Read more

Arlington council rejects Chesapeake drilling site in Rush Creek area

| |Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012

The Arlington City Council rejected the Rush Creek site because it is ringed by neighborhoods.Read more

Water pollution suit against Range Resources is rejected

| |Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012

A district judge has ruled that a Parker County couple lack legal jurisdiction to sue Fort Worth-based company in a high-profile case involving methane contamination of their water well.Read more

Judge: Parker County not the place for couple's lawsuit against Range Resources

| |Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012

The proper venue is Austin for challenging a Texas Railroad Commission order last year that said two Range natural gas wells were not responsible for contamination of Steve and Shyla Lipsky's private water well, the judge rules.Read more

Barnett Shale Rig Report

Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012

Tarrant County

Chesapeake Operating, Oklahoma City: horizontal off Shenandoah Road.Read more

U.S. rig count same; Texas down; Barnett up

Friday, Jan. 27, 2012

The number of active drilling rigs in the U.S. was unchanged this week at 2,008, according to Houston-based oil field services firm Baker Hughes. There were 1,225 rigs exploring for oil, 777 for natural gas and six miscellaneous. Texas dropped six rigs to 917. In North Texas' Barnett Shale, 60 rigs were drilling Friday, up two from a week earlier, according to RigData. The leading counties were Tarrant, 17; Montague, nine; Johnson, eight; Wise and Jack, six each, and Denton, five.Read more

Obama plugs use of natural gas

| |Friday, Jan. 27, 2012

He proposed tax incentives for companies that use natural gas trucksRead more

The Weir Group buys Dallas-based valve supplier

| |Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012

Weir also owns a maker of hydraulic-fracturing pumps in White Settlement.Read more

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